386 A&AMIBiE. 



Body muoh depressed, covered witli very small uniform feebly keeled 

 scales smallest on the sides ; a slight ridge along the middle of the 

 back ; ventral scales smooth. Limbs and digits rather short, the 

 adpressed hind Umb reaching the tympantim or between the latter 

 and the orbit ; scales on upper surface of limbs small, equal, keeled. 

 A series of thirty-two to forty-five pores extending along the whole 

 length of the thighs, continuous or interrupted on the preeanal region. 

 Tail round, a little depressed at the base, not twice as long as head 

 and body, covered with equal feebly keeled scales. Grey-brown 

 above, with small darker and lighter spots ; a series of transverse 

 black spots on the back separated or connected by a black vertebral 

 line ; throat and chest mottled with blackish. 



Total length 150 millim. 



Head 15 „ 



Width of head 13 „ 



Body 42 „ 



Fore limb 23 „ 



HindUmb 42 „ 



Tail 93 „ 



South Austraha. 



or-b. ? & yg. ? G- Krefft, Esq. [P.]. 



8. AmpMbolurus reticulatus. (Piate SXX. fig. J .) 



Grammatopb era reticulata, Gray, Oat. ^.252. 

 Grammatophora decresii, {non D. 8/- B.) Gray, in Orefy's Trav. Austr. 



ii. p. 439. 

 tevis, Oiinth. Ann. S/- May. N. H. (3) xx. 1867, p. 52. 



Habit stout. Head very short, snout a little shorter than the 

 diameter of the orbit ; nostril nearly equally distant from the eye 

 and the tip of the snout ; tympanum half the diameter of the orbit ; 

 upper head-scales subequal, subtuberoular, obtusely keeled, smallest 

 on supraorbital region ; small conical tubercles or spines near the 

 tympanum and on the neck. Sides of neck rather strongly plicate ; 

 no dorso-lateral fold. Gular scales smaller than ventrals, smooth. 

 Body much depressed, covered above with small smooth scales inter- 

 mixed with enlarged, flat, obtusely keeled ones ; a regular series of 

 the latter along the vertebral line ; ventral scales smooth. Limbs 

 and digits short, the adpressed hind limb reaching the shoulder in 

 the female, between the latter and the tympanum in the male ; scales 

 on the limbs keeled. A series of thirty-five to forty-five pores 

 extending along the whole length of the thighs, slightly interrupted 

 on the prasanal region. Tail round, a little depressed at the base, 

 not more than once and a half the length of head and body ; scales 

 strongly keeled, on the upper surface of the basal part of the tail 

 intermixed with enlarged flat scales. Pale olive or yellowish above, 

 spotted or retiotdated with black, the black reticulation generally 

 enclosing small round light spots ; tail with rather irregular dark 



