THREE NEW AUSTRALIAN LIZARDS — OGILBY. 
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with the rostral and first labial ; labials small, fifteen upper and 
thirteen lower ; mental trapezoidal, bordered posteriorly by five 
enlarged granules. An arcuate row of six strong conical tubercles, 
each of which is encircled by smaller tubercles, on the nuchal 
region ; body and limbs above covered with small granules, inter- 
mixed with rounded, conical, and spinose tubercles; below with 
flat granules; the two separated by a very distinct flap, the outer 
margin of which is ornamented with a series of triangular dermal 
appendages, each of which is provided with a similar smaller 
appendage in front and behind. Tail of moderate length, depressed, 
broad, leaf-like, strongly contracted at the base, and attenuated 
at the tip, covered above by minute granular scales, intermixed, 
except on a vertebral patch of the leaf-like expansion, with soft 
triangular appendages. 
Colors. — Chestnut- or blackish-brown above, with five large 
angular whitish spots, undulated or marbled with brown, the first 
and smallest on the nuchal region, the fifth between the hind 
limbs ; a whitish band from behind the eye to the ear-opening, 
and another along the side of the neck immediately in front of the 
fore limb ; labials white, marbled with dark brown ; limbs above 
with indications of lighter cross-bars; tail with three broad whitish 
transverse bands above ; below white, uniform or minutely spotted 
with brown. 
Dimensions 
Total length 
... 210 
millim 
Length of head ... 
... 37 
Width of head ... 
... 31 
>> 
Length of body 
... 90 
?> 
Length of fore limb 
... 66 
jj 
Length of hind limb 
... 72 
jj 
Length of tail 
... 83 
>> 
Habitat.- — Bellenden-Ker Ranges, North-eastern Queensland. 
Type . — In the Australian Museum, Sydney. 
The first examples of this fine Gecko which came under my 
notice formed part of a collection obtained by Messrs. Cairn and 
Grant during the autumn of 1889 in the locality indicated above; 
these were determined, on a cursory examination, as “ Gymno - 
dactylus platurus, northern form ” (vide Rec. Austr. Mus. i. p. 30). 
A fine example since forwarded, with other material, to the 
Museum by Mr. Day, coupled with the fact that at the time of its 
arrival I was engaged on a revision of the Australian Geckos, 
induced me to pay more attention to 'this form, with the result 
that I find it to be very distinct from G . platurus, its nearest ally, 
with which it has evidently been confounded, and which also 
ranges at least as far northwards as the Bellenden-Ker one of the 
