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A CONSPECT OF THE GENUS HETEROPUS. 



Indistinctly keeled — • 



a. ears with one strong scale in front, one 



or two small ones on each side of it variegatus. 



h. ears with three projecting scales in front clieverti. 



c. ears simple edged or nearly so ... mundus. 



HETEEOPUS LATEEALIS, 1^.8. 



Scales of the back and tail strongly bicarinate, the keels 

 continued nearly to the tip of the tail. Ear orifice with a 

 single long and low scale on the fore edge, sometimes divided ; 

 scale rows 30, labials the fifth upper one the largest and 

 under the orbit, second and third postmentals sub-equal, tail 

 vshort. 



*Length of the head ... 1.05 Length bet wevjn the limbs 1.85 

 „ ,, gape ... 0.75 ,, of hind limb ... 1.70 



„ „ trunk ... 2.95 „ fore limb ... 1.25 



tail ... 4.80 Breadth of the head ... 0.70 



Above bronze-brown. On the upper edge of the flanks between 

 the limbs a bright copper-red stripe. Beneath bronze, blue, 

 and yellow. Average adult length Sin. Locality, Moreton 

 Bay district. 



HETEROPUS BLACKMANNI, N.8. 



Scales of the back more or less faintly ridged, anteriorly more 

 or less sharply : distinctly bicarinate posteriorily ; ear orifice 

 longitudinally elliptical, narrow, fringed with small free scales 

 on the upper edge Scale rows 32, labials ^, the fifth upper 

 one the largest and under the orbit. Second and third post- 

 mentals sub-equal. Tail moderately long. 



Length of the head ... 0'95 Lcng-th between the limbs 1"7 



„ „ gape ... 65 of hind limb ... 1*5 



„ „ trunk ... 2*55 of fore limb ... 1'15 



„ tail ... 4*65 Breadth of the head ... 0"6 



Pale to dark olive brown, speckled with white and darker 

 brown: a distinct white line along the upper lip and through the 

 ear to the shoulder is continued brightly or faintly along the 

 flanks. A lateral line from above the ear appears as a line of 

 pale specks or distinct line on the edge of the back. Head 

 bronze green. 



Locality, Port Curtis. Collected by Mr. F. A. Blackman. 

 HETEEOPUS SCHMELTZII, Peters. 



" Agreeing with H. schlegelii, and therefore distinct from H. 

 fuscus and peronii, in having but 7 supralabials, the prefrontals 

 separated, the nuchal scales distinctly more keeled, and the 



• The measurements are iu centimetres. 



