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the real tiger snake. 
A brown-headed snake, Denisonia signata, is also 
found. This is one of the smaller venomous species. 
To a novice this list may look dangerous, but should 
not deter visitors to the park, who use reasonable care, as 
snakes are not frequently seen, and then usually glide 
away. 
The common black goanna is well known ; it lives on 
birds and their eggs, etc. 1 myself found one burrowing 
in a scrub turkey’s mound, which at the time contained 
eggs, and no doubt the goanna gets young turkeys as well. 
The handsome skink, Lygosoma tryoni, is to be found 
here; also the blue tongue, Tiliqua scincoides, and the big 
black “mullet” lizard, Egernia bungana; also the com- 
mon jew lizard. 
The smaller lizards are present in numbers, includ- 
ing many geckoes, the best known being the harmless grey 
or whitish lizard which catches insects on the walls or 
ceilings. 
There are also the water or dragon lizards, which 
drop into the stream at a person’s approach, a rare one 
being Gonyocephalus spinipes, of which very few speci- 
mens have been found. 
Crustacea , Etc . — A rather fine freshwater crayfish, 
Astacopsis serratus, Shaw, is found in the rocky streams 
having holes in the rocks. A tale is told of a party of boy 
scouts which was stranded in the ranges for two or three 
days, with the result that the crayfish being in demand, 
disappeared in that locality, let us hope, only for a time. 
A small prawn is also living about the pools. 
In addition to eels, and perhaps catfish in the lower 
holes, there is another unidentified fish in the pools but in 
small numbers, being more or less solitary, and up to 9 
inches in length. 
Mollusca . — Of land snail shells there are a number, 
the larger ones being Pedinogyra cunninghamii, Panda 
falconeri, and Helix richmondiana, there being a number 
of smaller species. 
Insects , Spiders, Etc . — The insect species of the area 
are very large in numbers, and many are of extreme in- 
terest. There are many beautiful butterflies and moths, 
lacewings, beetles and grasshoppers, bugs, mantids, flies of 
all descriptions, such as dragon flies, demoiselle flies, stone 
flies, robber flies, march flies, and many other flies, spiders, 
scrub ticks, and the queer-legged Peripatus leichardtii. 
These are all now being studied by scientists, who will 
probably publish full lists later on. 
The full list of any branch of the fauna has never yet 
been written, and the writer hopes that the foregoing 
