SUMMER IIKAT AND HEALTH. 



minute scales in front, two small scales on the upper edge, scales 

 of upper surface nearly smooth. Habit rather slender, scales 

 in thirty rows. 



Length of the trunk ... 3 7 Length between the limbs ... 1-8 



(Tail reproduced) ... O'O of hind limb 1*5 



Length of the head ... 1*0 „ „ fore „ 1-25 



„ „ gape ... 0*75 Breadth of head 0'7 



Olive, varied above with sublinearly disposed spots, anteriorly 

 black, posteriorly white, on the loins the white marks become 

 short rectangular bars, anterior upper labials white edged above, 

 a white line from the preorbital to upper hinder edge of ear 

 orifice, recommencing below it, forming a distinct white line to 

 over the axil, then fading on the flanks: over the shoulders an 

 indistinct pale line, the space between this and the lower line 

 reddish. Throat black lined, mental shields broadly black edged. 



Locality Warro, Port Curtis, collected by Mr. F. A. Blackman. 

 Two specimens. 



HETEROPUS FUSCUS, Dum. et Bibr. 



" Lower eyelid transparent. Scales of neck smooth, of back 

 three keeled. Inhab. Isle Waigiou and Rawach." Gray, Brit. 

 Mus. Cat. Liz. 107. 



Other localities given are Torres Straits. Gth. An. Mag. N.H. 

 (4) 19. 413. Murray Island,- Gth. Loc. Cit. 1879-84. Peak 

 Downs. 



SUMMER HEAT AND HEALTH 



BY 



HENRY WYATT RADFORD. 



Of which the folloiving is an abstract : — 



The origin of the heat of the body and the natuial processes 

 by which its normal degree of temperature is maintained, were 

 treated of; also the attention to be giv^en to our diet, clothing, 

 exercise, and mode of living generally in order that these- 

 processes may be assisted in theii- operation. The many ill 

 effects resulting from a neglect of the measures advocated for 

 securing this condition of health were also exemplified by 

 copious illustrations. 



