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RECORDS OE THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 
specimens collected by Messrs. Cairn and Grant being specifically 
inseparable from the southern Leaf-tailed Gecko. 
Five out of the six specimens available for examination had 
reproduced tails, that of the remaining example being as described 
above ; whether this lepidosis is normal or abnormal is, under the 
circumstances, rather a difficult question to decide, but the fact 
that I have before me an example of Gymnodactylus platurus 
which though fully adult and with a longer and more attenuated 
tail than prevails in the ordinary run of specimens, has this ver- 
tebral patch as fully developed as in the specimen described ; it 
seems, therefore, probable that this locally unarmed patch may or 
may not be present in individuals of the same species, since other- 
undoubted specimens of G. platurus show little or no sign of it. 
3. Diplodactylcs intermedius, sp. nov. 
Head oviform, convex ; snout rounded, much longer than the 
distance between the eye and the ear-opening, from once and three- 
fourths to twice the diameter of the orbit; eye large ; ear-opening 
of moderate size, round Body and limbs rather strong. Digits 
depressed, with large transverse lamella* interiorly, seven or eight 
under the fourth toe, the two or three anterior subcordiform, the 
middle two transversely oblong, and the basal ones divided into 
two subcircular plates ; the plates under the apex of the digits 
large, together cordiform. Upper surfaces coverd with moderate- 
sized, juxtaposed, round or oval granules, distinctly smaller on 
the nuchal region intermixed on the back with large conical 
tubercles, forming two regular longitudinal series, which extend 
a short distance along the tail. Bostral subquadrangular, com- 
pletely divided mesially ; nostril pierced between the rostral, 
first labial, and three nasals, the anterior of which is much the 
larger, and is separated from its fellow by a transverse oval 
granule, which is rarely split in two ; eleven to thirteen upper 
and ten to twelve lower labials ; mental small, triangular or 
trapezoidal, not or but little larger than the adjacent labials ; 
no regular chin-shields. Lower surfaces covered with small 
juxtaposed granules largest on the chin, smallest on the throat. 
Males with a curved series of preanal pores, five or six on each 
side, interrupted in the middle, and with from two to four large 
granules on each side of the base of the tail. Tail short, sub- 
cylindrical, covered with small granules ; seventeen more or 
less regular transverse bands of strong tubercles, the anterior 
band connecting the terminal points of the dorsal and basi-caudal 
longitudinal series. 
Colors . — Upper surfaces bluish-gray, with irregular lines and 
patches of black scales ; all the tubercles yellow ; lower surfaces 
gray, closely dotted with black or brown, each dot representing a 
granule. 
