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not keeled beneath. Hind-toe reaching forward to the 

 ear, fore-toe extending back more than two-thirds of the 

 distance to the thigh. Femoral pores 12 in each thigh. 

 Pre-anal shields all smaller than the ventral. 



A single specimen was obtained by Captain Sturt, to 

 whom I am indebted for it, and after whom I have 

 named it, in the Komayli pass, near Undul Wells. 



II. Acanthodactylus mucronatus, sp. nov. 



A. griseo-fulva, fascid mediand fused dorsali, strigisque lateralihus ex 

 griseo et fusco compositis omata, pedibus supra fuscis, griseo-maculatis ; 

 na/ri in medio A squa/marv/m positd duarum anteriorum, duarv/mposteriorum, 

 squamis supra-orbitalibus utrinque duobus, granuKs supra infra et postice 

 sed non antice circumdatis, iierticali. Elongato-pentagonali, in medio sulcatd, 

 post-occipitcdibus magnis, polygonis squamis parvis 4 valde in(squalibus 



