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Description of new 



these individuals; at any rate it adds considerably to the singularity 

 of their appearance. 



I have named this genus, from its appearance, after " Moloch, hor- 

 rid king." 



Moloch horridus. t. v. Pale yellow, marked with dark brown regular 

 spots ; sides and beneath black-edged, dark red similar spots. 



Inhab. Western Australia. Captain George Grey, Mr. J. Gould. 



The marks on the body are very definite, but from the irregularity 

 of their form they are not easily described. The lips are dark brown, 

 with two streaks up to the small spines on the forehead ; there is a 

 dark cross-band from the base of the two large horns over the eye- 

 brows, running behind and then dividing into two broad streaks, one 

 along each side of the centre of the back of the neck to between the 

 shoulders, crossing the nuchal swelling. In the middle of the back 

 there is a very large black patch nearly extending from side to side, 

 and over the loins are two oblong longitudinal black spots ; the dark 

 lines commencing from the lower angle of each eye extend to the legs, 

 along the upper part of each side to the upper part of the groin. On 

 the front of the fore and hind-legs and the sides are marked similar 

 dark bands. A dark band commences from the hinder part of the 

 lower lip, merging in the throat, and expanding out so as to be united 

 together at the back part of the chin. There is a large, rather oblong 

 spot in the centre of the chest and the hinder part of the abdomen, 

 separated from each by a large, somewhat triangular spot on each 

 side of the middle of the abdomen ; body 4£ inches. 



This is the Spinous Lizard exhibited by Mr. Gould at the meeting of 

 the Zoological Society, on the 25th day of August, 1840. 



Breviceps Gouldii, Smooth, with a few scattered low tubercles.; 

 gray-brown, yellowish beneath. 



Inhab. Western Australia. 



This animal has all the external appearance and character, as far 

 as they are given in MM. Dumeril and Bibron's work, of the Breviceps 

 gibbosus of the Cape of Good Hope, except that it has not the yel- 

 low dorsal band, and the back is scarcely to be designated as granu- 

 lar. It is the second species of the genus, and only the second Toad 

 found in Australia, the other being Phreniscus australis, which I describ- 

 ed in the i Proceedings of the Zoological Society,' under the name of 

 Bombinator australis. 



Uperoleia, Gray. Fam. Ranidse. 



Head large ; palate quite toothless ; upper jaw with small close teeth ; 



