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ANNALS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM, No. 6 
A NEW GENUS OF LIZARDS. 
In the course of re-arranging a reptile collection, which has 
for some years been slowly increasing, and had been thrown into 
sad confusion by the exigencies of a hurried removal to new quarters, 
an unlabelled bottle was met with containing snakes that have 
almost certainly been brought from one of the Solomon Islands 
by an unknown contributor. Among them was a small lizard, 
which deserves precedence over any ophidian pretenders to present 
notice. On removing it from the alcohol it seemed to be a specimen 
so badly cured that the skin of the abdomen had loosened, and 
slipped away over the legs. Further inspection shewed that this 
was not the case ; though the head scales were not altogether perfect, 
the hinder parts of the body were well preserved. On lifting the 
apparently displaced skin, it was found to be a delicate fold rising 
from the abdomen and deep enough to cover the bases of the thighs, 
and, moreover, that these also were each invested with a separate 
skinfold. Knowing no other lizard with an apron and a pair of 
drawers, I venture to think that one so provided may be granted 
generic rank, and as the apron conceals parts which, to the best 
of my memory, are exposed in all other lacertians, the best name 
which suggests itself for the genus seems to be Calyptoprymnus. 
Calyptoprymnus n.g. Fam. Agamid^. 
Habit depressed ; head shields mostly normal ; nostril 
in a single nasal ; tympanum exposed, superficial ; eyelids well 
developed, scaly ; teeth small, conical, numerous ; feet penta- 
dactyle ; scales in straight longitudinal and transverse series, 
the dorsals quadrate and keeled, the abdominal oblong and smooth, 
the caudal forming spinose rings. An abdominal fold covering the 
anus and part of thigh, beneath it loop-like folds from the tail 
surrounding the thighs. 
Calyptoprymnus verecundus n.s. 
Plate XV. — Head conical ; nostril round, on lower edge of 
nasal ; three loreals, the largest in touch with the nasal and fronto- 
nasal, the last very narrow and below the front of the orbit ; supra- 
oculars four, the anterior two in touch with the frontal ; frontal 
as long as its distance from the rostral, about twice as long as 
broad ; frontoparietals in two parts, the anterior the smaller, 
triangular, with anterior angles truncate, the posterior oblong, with 
upper posterior angles truncate ; parietals in contact behind the 
interparietal ; first row of small nuchals oblong, smooth, continued 
over the temporals to the eyes ; ear orifice triangular, longer 
than the eye cleft ; dorsal scales not or scarcely imbricate, with 
keels which are pointed in front, broad behind, and running in 
continuous longitudinal lines ; tail shorter than head and body, 
armed with whorls of spinose scales ; scales of abdomen, abdominal 
fold and anal region beneath it oblong and smooth ; limbs rather 
