RECORDS OF W.A. MUSEUHf. 
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Colour (Spirits) : — Upper surface of head rusty brown with 
black spots on the keels of the scales. Sides of head lighter, shad- 
ing to yellow, sometimes with several fine black temporal streaks. 
A single median series of large black spots on the neck and anterior 
part of the back, breaking up into a double series of dorso-lateral 
spots towards the posterior part of the body. These spots some- 
times enclose (towards the posterior part of the body) a light area of 
yellowish or brownish with a variegated centre. External to this 
series of spots is a light reddish, dark-edged band of lozenge-shaped 
spots, or a series of definite dark-centred light-edged ocelli. A 
series of about six narrow, light ashy-grey transverse bars cross the 
back, dividing the ocelli or separating the lozenge-shaped spots. 
Sides yellowish, reticulated with greyish or black. Tail sometimes 
with a distinct lateral band of lozenge-shaped spots and a light 
dorsal band, or variegated brownish. Numerous light ashy-grey 
bands cross the tail, completely dividing the dark lateral band. 
Under surfaces uniform yellowish, or more or less densely clouded 
with black on the throat, chest and abdomen. Limbs reddish- 
brown with yellow lines enclosing more or less regular shaped 
spots. Under surfaces sometimes clouded with black. Feet and 
hands rusty-red. 
The affinities of this lizard are with A. cristatiis, Gray, and the 
differences have been summed up by Messrs. Stirling and Zietz as 
follows : — •“ All the scales are much smaller, the head scales not 
rugose as in A. cristatus, but smooth and strongly keeled. The 
dorsal scales are not intermixed with larger ones, but increase in 
size towards the vertebral line. The compressed spines of the 
nuchal crest are shorter.” To these might be added the marked 
difference in colour marking. Recorded from between Fraser 
Range and Queen Victoria Springs. 
Localities. — A single adult female from Mt. Malcolm is in the 
collection. 1 have also examined a specimen presented to the Aus- 
tralian Museum by Mr. A. H. S. Lucas, from Kalgoorlie. Both 
these and the original description have been utilised in the prepara- 
tion of the above description. 
