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NEW QUEENSLAND LIZARDS. BY C. W. DE VIS. 



and an obtuse truncated hinder angle. Postf rentals separated by 

 about their own breadth. Supraorbitals four. Supraciliaries six. 

 Labials f, the posterior ones ill defined. Teeth short, triangular, 

 sharp, irregular in size, without canines. Scale rows in the middle 

 of the trunk 28. Scales of throat large, graduating in size to the 

 vent. Sequence of toes { ^ ^ 3 ^ . Nostril much nearer to the- 

 lip of the snout than to the eye. Two preoculars, the upper 

 one very small. Two frenals. Colour : head bronze-brown, a 

 little freckled with black. Body bronze-brown, with steel-blue 

 reflections, each scale light-centred and dark-edged. Below 

 bronze-blue, each scale with a darker centre, becoming black on 

 the scales in a line from the angle of the mouth to the root of 

 the fore limb. Chin flesh-white. Tail beneath as above. Each 

 labial with a black centre. A trace of a dark band from the- 

 nostril through and beyond the eye, and of a white line curving 

 under the eye. Total length, 1 inch 5 lines ; tail, 9^ lines ; 

 head, 2J lines ; fore limb, 2| lines ; hind limb, 3 lines. 

 Locality, Brisbane. Collected by Mr. H. Tryon. Habitat 

 among fallen leaves. Mr. Tryon notice's its wriggling gait 

 (lugisma.) 



The introduction of these genera among our gape-eyed 

 seines leads one to take a synoptical view of the family 



GYMNOPHTH ALMID^ . 



Eyes naJ:ed, the eye-lids being rudimentary or absent, 

 limbs 4 -tveak, toes variable, nostril in a single or 

 divided lateral plate, no femoral pores 



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Head conical 

 Rostral rounded 



Head wedge-shaped 

 Rostral produced 

 Toes f 

 LERISTA 



Scales keeled 



Toes I 

 MYOPHILA 



Scales smooth 



Toes 4 

 CRYPTOBLEPHARUS 



Toes i 



Toes f 

 MICULLA 



Toes I 

 PHANEROPIS 



Ears hidden 

 MENETIA 



Ears exposed 

 LYGISAURUS 



