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RECORDS OF TIIE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 
brown ; tail above dark brown, the expanded portion with two 
broad light colored cross-bands ; the anterior near its commence- 
ment, the posterior marking its termination ; below dark brown 
densely spotted with yellow ; the attenuated portion with two 
annular yellow rings. 
Dimensions 
Total length 
89 millim. 
Length of head ... 
... 18 
) j 
Width of head 
... 13 
jj 
Length of body ... 
... 42 
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Length of fore limb 
... 24 
Length of hind limb 
30 
J) 
Length of tail 
... 29 
JJ 
Habitat . — Interior of New South Wales (lumut?). 
Type. — In the Australian Museum, Sydney. 
The unique example described above forms one of a small col- 
lection lately forwarded to the Museum. The bottle which con- 
tained it is labelled “ Tumut,” but as the remaining bottles are 
unlabelled, and no information as to the sender is procurable, 
some doubt as to the true locality necessarily remains. 
This species differs greatly from the other broad-tailed forms 
of Gymnodactylus , but is more closely allied to G. miliusii, than 
to platurus or cornutus. 
2. Gymnodactylus cornutus, sp. nov. 
Head large, the snout depressed, the occiput raised above the 
level of the eye and forming with the snout a moderately convex 
surface the apical point of which is on a line with the posterior 
margin of the orbit ; the length of the snout is one and three- 
fourths of the diameter of the eye ; the distance between the eye 
and the nostril is greater than that between the eye and the ear- 
opening. Forehead and loreal region slightly concave; supra- 
ciliary region so much enlarged and elevated as to leave only a 
deep narrow fossa between the orbits. Ear-opening elongate- 
pyriform, vertical, five-eighths of the diameter of the eye. Body 
moderately elongate and attenuated, more than three and a half 
times the length of the head. Limbs long ; digits strong, sub- 
cylindrical at the base, the distal portion strongly compressed and 
elevated; claws very strong. Head covered with small granules 
intermixed with conical or rounded tubercles ; granules of the 
upper eyelid rather larger than those of the head, the tubercles 
numerous and rounded ; a strong spinate knob, surmounted by a 
conical tubercle behind the eye ; ear-opening protected in front 
and above by a tuberculated ridge ; rostral subquadrangular, 
three times as broad as high, almost completely divided by a 
shallow median groove ; nostril directed posteriorly, in contact 
