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Phyria, Gray. Fam. Geckotidce. Toes moderate, base scaly above and 
below, dilated, ends expanded into a rounded disk, with two series of diverg- 
ing plates beneath, last joint free, compressed, clawed; thumb of fore and 
hind feet smaller, clawless : back covered with small granular, belly with 
rather larger scales : labial and chin shields distinct : tail round, tapering, 
with a series of large hexagonal plates beneath : preanal pores distinct, in 
an angular line. 
Like Ptyodaclylus, but the toes are shorter, thicker, dilated at the base, 
and it has preanal pores. 
Phyria punctulata. Olive grey, in spirits : scales minutely black-spec- 
kled : lips, sides of throat, chest, belly and underside of tail, yellow. 
Inhabits North coast of New Holland ; Port Essington. 
Diplodactylus spiniyerus, Gray. Above olive, with a darker edged irre- 
gular dark mark on the crown, nape and back, beneath paler : scales small, 
granular, with a series of black spines along each side of the back and tail, 
and a group of spines at the base of the latter : labial scales oblong, higher 
in front : toes 5.5, under side with short, oblong, 4-sided, transverse scales, 
ends with 2 square lobes. 
Inhabits Van Diemen’s Land. Mus. Zool. Soc. No. 383. 
Chlamydophorus Kingii^ Gray, King’s Voy. Aust. ii. t. 1. The frill in- 
creases in size compared with the size of the animal as it grows in age ; 
in the young it does not reach to the base of the fore limbs, in the adult it 
becomes much fuller, and reaches considerably beyond the axilla. 
Young, length of body and tail, 16 ; frill from ear, 1 3. 
Adult, - - 35 ; frill from ear, 6 0. 
A very young specimen in spirits is grey, with narrow irregularly waved 
and twisted black streaks, forming broad bands across the back, limbs 
and tail ; the bands are indistinctly marked on the body, but more distinct 
on the limbs and tail, where they are to be seen of a brown colour on a much 
more grown specimen : the head and face of the young specimen are also 
marked with symmetrical twisted and curved lines. 
Lophognathus, Gray. Fam. Agamidcd. Head elongate ; forehead 
shelving, nearly flat, covered with keeled scales ; eyebrows keeled : back 
covered with keeled rhombic scales, placed in oblique ascending series : 
limbs, tail, chest and belly with larger scales placed in longitudinal series : 
nape and parotids with a crest of short compressed scales ; the nuchal 
crest is continue A into a slight keel down the back : tail elongate, tapering: 
femoral pores 2 or 3, rather irregular ; 2 preanal pores on each side, near 
the base of the lower side of the thigh. 
This genus difiers from Calotes only in being furnished with pores. 
Lophognathus Gilherti. Olive-green ; chin and throat greener ; upper 
lips, a broad streak under the ears, bent up and continued along the sides, 
becoming narrower near the hind legs, and a second small streak on 
sides of the throat, white : tail obscurely black-ringed : nuchal crest short, 
low, continued by a very slightly raised keel to the base of the tail : scales 
of the back small, keeled, of the limbs, tail, chest and belly longer, lozenge- 
shaped. 
Inhabits North coast of New Holland ; Port Essington. 
Diporiphora, Gray. Fam. Agamidce, Head short; forehead shelving. 
