Species of Reptiles, 



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Grammatophora muricata, Cuvier. The young animals have a series 



of small spines on each side of the base of the tail, and a series of 



spots on each side of the back. 

 Mr. Gould has brought home two very distinct local varieties. 

 Far. 1. Diemensis. Young dark-coloured, with vermiculated marks 



on the chin, chest, and abdomen. The adult dark, beneath gray, 



varied with black spots placed in irregular lines. 

 Inhab. Van Diemen's Land. 



Far. 2. Adelaidensis. Young pale above and beneath, with three broad 

 diverging black lines on the chin, leaving an oblong spot in the 

 centre of the throat, with a broad streak on the chest separated 

 into three lines on the abdomen, which unite together again on 

 the pubis. The adult gray, with a few spots beneath. 

 Inhab, Adelaide, Western Australia. 



Moloch, Grey. Fam. Agamidse. 



Body depressed, covered with irregular unequal, small granular plates, 

 each furnished with a more or less prominent central spine, and 

 with a series of large, conical, Convex, acute spines ; head and 

 limbs covered with similar scales and spines ; head small, with 

 very large spines over each of the eyebrows ; tail with irregular 

 rings of large acute spines ; femoral and subanal pores none ; teeth 

 small, subequal ; toes 5. 5, short, covered above and below with 

 keeled scales ; claws long, acute. 

 The external appearance of this Lizard is the most ferocious of any 

 that I know, the horn of the head and the numerous spines on the 

 body giving it a most formidable aspect. The scales of the back are 

 small and unequal ; they gradually increase in size as ,they approach 

 the base of the conical spines, which is surrounded with a ring of 

 larger scales with longer spines: the large spines are conical; rather 

 compressed, spinulose below, smooth and acute at the tip, and are 

 usually furnished with a sharp toothed ridge on the front edge, and 

 sometimes on the hinder one. These spines only consist of a horny 

 sheath placed on a fleshy process of the very same form and appear- 

 ance as the spines they bear. The scales of the under side of the body 

 are of the same form, and are furnished with similar but smaller and 

 less produced spines than those of the back. The back of the neck 

 of the only two specimens I have seen is furnished with a large round- 

 ed protuberance like a cherry, covered with large granular spinous 

 scales, and armed on each side with a large conical spine ; but I do 

 not know if this is common to the species or merely accidental in 



