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base of the tail, and with a broader more indistinct band from the front to 
the hinder legs : sides of throat brown, white-spotted : chin, underside of 
limbs and beneath yellow : tail elongate, brown, with a narrow black streak 
on each side : limbs brown, with three indistinct black dotted lines : ears 
large, with 3 small scales on the front edge : scales smooth. 
Inhabits North Coast of New Holland ; Port Essington, Mr. Gilbert. 
Lialis Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. ; Grey’s Travels, t. Above grey 
olive in spirits, with 5 rather interrupted brown longitudinal streaks, the 
central streak divided into two over the nape and united together again over 
the nose ; the outer lateral streaks narrowest and more interrupted, edged 
with the two colours : beneath blackish grey, with large white spots ; lips 
and streak under ear and along the side of the lieck white. 
Inhabits Western Australia, J. Gould, Esq. The L. Burtoni described 
in the Proceedings had lost its colour, but it appears to belong to this species. 
Lialis bicatenata. Above brown grey, in spirits, with a series of distant 
black spots (one on the centre of each scale) along each side of the back ; 
top of the head and nape with an indistinct double band, forming an elon- 
gated loop : beneath blackish grey, whitish dotted ; chin and throat black- 
ish, white-spotted ; lip shields brown. 
Inhabits North Coast of New Holland; Port Essington, Mr. Gilbert. 
Var. — Throat like the rest of under side. 
Inhabits Western Australia? May be only a variety of L. Burtoni, 
but very dilferently coloured. 
Lialis punctulata. Brownish grey, very minutely black-dotted, be- 
neath darker brownish grey, the two colours separated by a very narrow 
brown edge and a distinct white line ; side of the head and neck dark cho- 
colate brown, edged above with a very narrow, and beneath by a broader 
white band : front upper and side lower labial plates white, the rest dark 
brown. 
Inhabits North Coast of New Holland ; Port Essington, Mr. Gilbert. 
The body is much thicker and shorter than either of the other species : 
the tail is reproduced, so that it is not possible to refer to its comparative 
length. 
Gecko verus, Merrem. 
Inhabits North Coast of New Holland ; Port Essington, Mr. Gilbert. 
(Edura, Gray. Earn. Geckotidce. Toes 5.5, dilated, free, scaly beneath 
at the base, ends rather broader, under surface with two rows of transverse 
folds, the last fold on each toe larger and more expanded : claws 5.5, hid 
in the groove between the folds : back and belly with ovate, convex, equal, 
and sides with smaller scales : tail ovate-lanceolate, very thick, depressed, 
with an acuminated tip, covered with rings of rather large scales ; pre- 
anal pores in a lunate line. 
(Edura marmorata. Above black, in spirits, spotted and banded with 
white, beneath white : head and limbs above black spotted with white, a 
whitish band across the nape, one over the shoulder, two across the back, 
and one over the hind legs : tail marbled black and white, end with one or 
two black bands and a white tip: sides of the head whitish ; chin and un- 
der sides of the body and limbs white. 
Var. with bands of spots between the four white bands on the back. 
Inhabits North coast of New Holland ; Port Essington. 
