BY C. W, DE VIS. 



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converging to the neck. Tail with angular spots and streaks of 

 black. The young dark brown, with white bars on the nape, lo 

 — 12 bars composed of more or less distinct double spots on the 

 back and tail and the sides a little spotted. 



Total lens^th 26 — 21 lines Lens^th between the limbs 13 — 17 lines 



Length of tail 21 — 18 lines Length of fore limb 8 — 6 lines 



Length of head 7 — Splines Length of hind limb 10 — 9Hine8 



Length of snout 3^ — 2^^ lines 

 Length ot interorbit 2J — 2 lines 



Locality, Stanthorpe. Collected by the Hon. Sec, Mr. H. 

 Tryon, to whom it is dedicated. 



The characteristics of the species are its contiguous 

 supranasals, the conspicuous ocellations of its back and flanks, 

 and its large scales. It is by far the handsomest of its kind. 



Amphibolurus branchialis. — Habit, elongate with power- 

 ful limbs. Head large, deep, triangular, with large parotids. 

 Nuchal crest high, composed of lo — 15 corhpressed scales passing 

 suddenly but without interval into the dorsal, which is also high 

 and continued to the middle of the tail, the rest of the tail 

 bicarinate as in Hydrosaurus. Scales of the head angularly 

 tubercular, of the supraorbital smaller. The superorbital 

 region is limited axiad by a curved row of ridge-like scales. 

 A few large conical scales on the upper edge of the parotid — 3 — 

 4 very large ones on its posterior angle, and below it a long row 

 of conical scales in a line with the lower edge of the mandible. 

 Labials large, with a row of similar scales along the lower edge of 

 the mandible. Scales of the neck and shoulders granular, of the 

 flanks and tail rhombic, sharply keeled ; 7 — 8 oblique rows of 

 large conical scales on the sides, similar rows on the thighs and 

 shanks. Scales of the chin elongately tubercular, of the throat 

 rhombic ; of the lower part of the abdomen rhombic, flat, almost 

 smooth. Femoral pores 8 — 9 in a closely beset line with occasion- 

 ally an additional group behind it. Preanal pores 2 — 3. 



Colour, grey to dark brown, with 6 — 7 more or less persistent 

 black cross bands. A broad black streak from the eye through 

 the ear to the hinder edge of the parotid, and a large black patch 

 on the shoulder. Dorsal crest black with occasional white scales. 

 In the young the cross bands of larger scales are frequently white. 



Total length 294 lines Length between the limbs 33 lines. 



Length of tail 201 lines Length of fore limb ' 39 lines. 



Length of head 21 lines Length of fourth toe 11 lines. 



Breadth of head at ears 15 lines Length of hind limb 71 lines. 



Breadth of head at eyes 10 lines Length of fourth toe 17 lines. 



