TIIREE NEW AUSTRALIAN LIZARDS— OGILBY. 
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of the diameter of the eye, and the distance between the eye 
and the ear-opening is equal to that between the . eye and 
a point midway between the nostril and the tip of the snout. 
Interorbital space broad, broader in comparison than in G. j)la- 
turus or G. cornutus. Ear-opening a narrow vertical slit, about 
one third of the diameter of the eye. Body short and rather 
compressed, barely two and a third times the length of the head. 
Limbs long ; digits rather short and thick, subcylindrical at the 
base, and but little compressed on the distal phalanges. Head 
covered with small granules intermixed with rounded tubercles, 
which are largest near the end of the snout ; outer margin of the 
upper eyelid with two strong ridges upon which small tubercles 
predominate ; two slight longitudinal folds on the sides of the 
neck and a vertical fold in front of the forelimb, all of which are 
more thickly studded with tubercles than are the surrounding 
parts ; rostral hexagonal twice as broad as high, without any 
indication of median groove above ; nostril directed posteriorly, 
bordered in front by a large nasal, which is larger than the first 
upper labial, and separated from the latter by a series of small 
granules ; labials small, thirteen or fourteen upper and eleven 
lower ; mental trapezoidal, bordered posteriorly by five small 
granules; body above covered by minute granules, intermixed 
with rounded and conical tubercles ; limbs similarly protected, 
but with the granules larger and the tubercles smaller ; below 
with Hat subimbricate granules; no lateral fold. Tail short, 
broad, and thick, depressed, malleiform, not contracted at the base, 
from which the enlarged portion expands at right angles ; the 
expanded portion is formed of six broad transverse ridges, and is 
quadrilateral ; its length is three-fourths of its breadth, which is 
one-sixth more than that of the body at its broadest part ; it ends 
almost as abruptly as it commences, and terminates in an attenu- 
ated point, which rises from the postero-inferior margin of the 
swollen portion, and is barely four-sevenths of its length ; the 
tail is covered above by minute granules anteriorly and much 
larger flattened subimbricate granules posteriorly ; on the former 
portion there are four regular transverse series of strong conical 
tubercles, on the latter a single series on each side near the margin; 
sides with an upper series of very strong conical tubercles, and a 
lower series of weaker ones ; below with subimbricate granules ; 
attenuated portion covered with small rounded granules. 
Colors . — Head and neck above brown with darker and lighter 
marbling and most of the tubercles yellow; the sides pale yellowish- 
brown with irregular blackish bands, which are vertical on the 
former and horizontal on the latter ; back brown with narrow 
yellowish transverse bands, mainly caused by the prevalence of 
that color on the tubercles ; sides and limbs light brown streaked 
and marbled with darker brown ; under surface dirty yellowish- 
