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A CONSPECT OF THE GENUS HKTEROPUS. 



ear with a row of 5-6 free scales fringing the fore edge, gradually 

 diminishing in size from the topmost one. 



Length of trunk ... 2*75 Length between the limba ... 1-55 



head ... 1-15 „ of hind limb 2'1 



,y gape ... 0-9 „ fore limb 1-55 



„ tail 8-2 Breadth of head 75 



Above bronzy brown with a vertebral stripe and a broader 

 lateral one on each side black, the latter running over the ear 

 and through the eye to the snout. From the upper lip a fainter 

 dark stripe runs below the ear to the shoulder. Uppsr surface 

 of the body studded with black-edged greenish white spots which 

 run in pairs along the base of the tail. Head without spots, 

 beneath yellowish bronzy-blue, anteriorly pinky, yellow pos- 

 teriorly. 



Locality, Cape York. Collected by Mr. K. Broadbent. 



HETEEOPUS EUBRICATUS, iV^.S. 



Scales of the back very faintly tricai-inate. Ear orifice with 

 three free scales on the fore-edge, the upper one the largest. 

 Scale rows 36. Labials |-, the fifth upper one the largest and 

 under the orbit. Second and third postmentals the largest. 

 Tail long. 



Length of the head ... 1*55 Length between the limbs 2-05 

 „ gape' ... 1*2 of hind Hmb ... 3'1 



„ „ trunk ... 3'7 ,, fore limb ... 1*9 



„ y, tail 975. Breadth of the head ... O'S 



Above uniform brown. On the sides and limbs rather bright 

 rufous brown. A stripe of the ground colour, edged above and 

 below with white, runs through the eye from the snout to the 

 shoulders. Beneath yellowish, tinged with blue antei'iorly. 

 Locality, Caj)e Yoik. Collected by Mr. K. Broadbent. 



HETEROPUS LONGIPES, Moxleaxj. 



" Nasal plates small and distant, the internasal forms a broad 

 straight suture with the I'ostral, and is rounded in the middle 

 of its base where it joins the frontal ; frontal-nasal large and 

 nearly contiguous ; frontoparietal single, with a small rounded 

 interparietal behind. The fifth upper labial is the largest. 

 Ear openings slightly ovate, with acute denticulations, the 

 three in front large and several above small. Legs, especially the 

 anterior pair long and weak, the toes elongate and unequal. 

 Scales very indistinctly 3 keeled, those on the back in 8 or 10 

 seiies. Color olive-brown above with a darker streak on each 

 side ; beneath yellowish white ; central preanal scale large ;. 

 tail long and taper; total length, six inches. Endeavour River."' 

 Proc. Lin. Soc, N.S.W., ii, 66. 



