Descriptions of new species of Reptiles from Australia, 



collected by Hr. Dämel for the Godeffroy Museum. 



By 



IDr. Altoert G^xxiatlaei*. 



Delma orientalis. 



Shorter and less slender than B. fraseri which inhabits Western and Southern Anstralia. Scales 

 in sixteen rows (14 in D. fraseri): ventrals in 109 pairs. Of tlie two verticals tlie anterior is very broad, 

 extending across the whole width of the snont; the posterior is small, pentagonal. The upper labials are 

 rather high; the first pair of lower labials do not form a snture together behind the mental, as in D. fraseri, 

 bnt are widely separate. Two pairs of prseanal sentes, withont Single median scute. Yonng speeimens 

 (250 mm. long) are prettily colored: a brown straight line rims along each series of scales; and eacli 

 scale is provided with two yellowish dots separated from each other by the longitndinal line. A broad 

 yellowish nuchal band is edged behind with black. These colors are less distinet in old examples, though 

 more or less visible. The body of the largest example is 200 mm. long, withont the tail. 



Peak Downs. 



Lygosoma heterodaetylum. 



Allied to L. austräte, bat with the relative lengths of the hind-toes very different. 



Habit slender; limbs feeble: length of the fore-limbs a little less than the distance of the ear from 

 the snont; the third and fonrth fingers nearly ecpial in length. Also the third and fonrth toes are subeqnal 

 in length, the flfth being a little longer than the second which is two-thirds of the length of the third. 

 Nasals widely separate; central occipital as long as the prseoccipitals. Eye-lid scaly; ear-opening small. 

 Body surrounded by twenty-tAVo series of scales; flfty-fonr scales in a series between the axils of the 

 fore- and hind-limbs. Two large prseanal scales. 



Upper parts brownish, finely powdered with black. Abdomen whitish, with irregnlarly scattered 

 black dots which become more crowded on the throat, and on the lower side of the tail. 



Peak Downs. The speeimen is 155 mm. long, of which the body takes 65 mm. 



Rhodona fragilis. 



Scales round the middle of the body in twenty series; sixty-five scales in a longitndinal series 

 between the fore- and hind-limbs. Four large prseanal scales; snbcandals not enlarged. Fore-limbs as 

 long as the cleft of the mouth, with three fingers, of Avhich the two outer ones are eqnal in length, the 

 inner being only one third the length of the outer ones. Hind-limbs longer, with three toes very uneqnal 

 in length, the inner the shortest, the outer the longest. Nasals in contact with each other; prsefrontal 

 Single, forming a broad sttture with the vertical which is subtriangnlar, scarcely longer than broad. 

 Prseoccipitals conflitent; central occipital short, triangulär. Six lipper labials, the fonrth entering the orbit. 



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