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A CONSPECT OF THE GENUS HETEROPUS. 



beneath altogether yellowish green, or with the region of the 

 chin bluish. Examples of this species from Port Mackay, N.E. 

 Australia, are in the Gocldefroy collection." Mon. Akad. Berl. 

 1869, p. 446. 



HETEROPUS QUINQUECAEINATUS, Macleay. 



Head rather blunt, nostril near the middle of the nasal plate, 

 the sixth upper labial largest, the other head plates as in the 

 two last species (H. longipes and variegatus). Ear openings 

 oblong-oval, with three denticulations in front, legs moderate, 

 toes slightly elongated, scales each with five keels, the lateral 

 ones short and indistinct, and those on the back in about six 

 series, tail scarcely longer than the body, colour dark brown 

 above and white below, with a light black-edged side streak. 

 Length 6in. Hab. Darnley Island. Proc. Lin. Soc, N.S.W., 

 ii, 67. 



HETEROPUS VARIEGATUS, Macleay. 



Plates of the head as in the last species (H. longipes); nostril 

 -on the hinder part of the nasal plate, ear openings oval, with a 

 strong denticulation in front, and one or two minute ones on 

 each side of it. Legs stronger and shorter than in the last 

 species, the toes much shorter, tail long and taper. Scales 

 indistinctly keeled, those on the back in 8 series. Colour, 

 dark olive brown on the back with a few distant lighter-coloured 

 spots representing obsolete stripes, and a broad black band along 

 each side, edged with yellow, under surface yellowish. Length 

 5 inches. Darnley Island. Proc. Lin. Soc, N.S.W., ii, 67. 



HETEROPUS CHEVERTI, Macleay. 



" Head flat ; nostril at the back part of the nasal plate ; fifth 

 upper labial largest ; head plates as in all the other species, the 

 interparietal perhaps being more pointed at the apex. Ear 

 openings nearly round, with three denticulations in front. Legs 

 moderate ; toes elongate ; scales very indistinctly carinated, 

 the keels showing more as points on the edge of the scale than 

 on it, those on the back in 8 series. Tail considerably longer 

 than the body, and very acutely pointed. Colour greenish, olive 

 above, bluish white beneath, the under side of the legs and tail 

 being of a somewhat pinker hue. Length, 5 inches. Barrow 

 Island." Proc. Lin. Soc, N.S.W., ii, 67. 



HETEROPUS MUNDUS, N.S. 



Labials 7-7, the fifth upper beneath the eye. Nasals very 

 small, orifice central. Ear simple edged, or with one or two 



