MEPTILES FR021 QVEENSLANE 4 - NORTHEBE TERRITORY.— LONGMAN. 33 
concave. Eostral large, convex, wider than high, slightly emarginated above 
where in contact with the internasal. Nostril pierced between seven nasals, the 
anterior of vrhieh is the largest, the posterior being indistinguishable from the 
scales of the snout. As in I), coiispicillai'us, L. and F., only one upper distinct 
labial is present, the border being completed by about 26 small scales. The lower 
labial border is formed by the anterior units (about 30) of several oblique row^s 
of granules which meet the gape j mental with a small median process posteriorly. 
Interiorly, a few of the scales adjoining the mental are somewhat enlarged. Body 
moderate; upper surfaces covered with small granules, the median dorsal series 
not enlarged; abdominal scales smaller. Limbs slender, just meeting when 
adpressed. The digits are covered interiorly vdth rounded tubercles, wuth tw^o 
small oval plates at the apex (which is scarcely dilated) ; all clawed. 
Tail (not reproduced) short, subglobose, being very convex above and 
slightly concave interiorly; the middle and posterior surface above is covered 
with rounded or pentagonal convex scales, in the centre of each being a distinct 
tubercle ; scales below flat and imbricate. No pores. At each side of the thickened 
base of the tail is a cluster of small conical scales. 
Colour (spirits) greyish above, but far darker than D. conspicillatiis, 
especially on the head ; many of the scales are almost black, and these form an 
irregular reticulated pattern. The region of the canthus rostralis is lighter. 
Under surfaces whitish. 
Dimensions: Total length 60 mm.; width of head 7-5 mm.; snout to ear- 
opening 10 mm, ; snout to anal opening 44-5 mm. ; fore-limb 13-5 mm. ; hind-limb 
16 mm.; tail 15-5 ram.; max. width of tail 9*5 mm. 
Log. : Port Darwin; donated by Mr. G. F. Hill. 
Type in Queensland Museum: Peg. No. Q.M. J 14/1994. 
Through the courtesy of Mr. C. Frost, we have had an opportunity of 
examining “ a subtype” of 7). conspicillatus^ Lucas and Frost,® from Charlotte 
Waters, Central Australia. Although in colour and dorsal and caudal lepidosis 
these geckoes are very distinct, they have so much in common that D. liillii may 
be looked upon as the Northern coastal equivalent of the eremian species. 
(EDURA MARMORATA, Gray. 
In a handsome specimen of this Northern gecko, forwarded from Port 
Darwin by Mr. G. F. Hill, the first infralabials are not in contact behind the 
mental, but are separated by an azygous scale or chin-shield. 
Lucas and Frost, Pro. Eoy. Soc. Yic., n.s. ix, 1897, p. 55. 
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