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Rhynchoedura, Giinth. 
(3) Rhynchcedura ornata, Giinth. 
One specimen. 
Ground colour pinkish; markings pale reddish-brown, rings more complete. 
Locality. —Charlotte Waters. 
Distribution. —Nicol Bay (B.M.C.), Everard Range (Elder Exped.), North 
Queensland (L. and E.), Central Australia. 
Ceramodactylus, Blanford. 
(4) Ceranwdactylus damceus, L. and F. (Plate IX., Fig. 2). 
Description. —Head large, high ; snout obtusely pointed, a little longer than 
the distance between the orbit and the ear-opening. Ear-opening narrow, 
elliptical, oblique. Body slightly depressed. Limbs moderate, the fore-limb 
stretched forward reaches to between the eye and the nostril. Digits long, 
slender, interiorly wdth small, imbricate, pointed scales. Head and upper surfaces 
of body covered with small granular scales. Rostral quadrangular, twice as broad 
as high, with median cleft above. Nostril pierced between the rostral, first labial, 
and four nasals, the supero-anterior nasals large, forming a suture with one 
another behind the rostral. Eleven upper and as many lower labials. Mental 
rather large, trapezoid; no chin shields. Gular scales very small, granular. 
Abdominal scales flat, subimbricate. Male with two or three blunt spines on each 
side of the base of the tail, and two widely-separated prieanal pores. Tail missing. 
Colour. —Pale whitish-grey above, darkest on the sides : a brownish more or less 
broken band from the snout along each side of the back to tail; a broad median 
whitish band from neck to base of tail ; head spotted or reticulated with dark 
brown ; sides with two longitudinal series of roundish white spots ; limbs and 
under surfaces uniform whitish. 
Dimensions 
Total length 
Head 
Width of head 
Body 
Fore-limb 
Hind-limb 
Tail 
? 
11 
9 
mm. 
37 
15 
20 
55 
wanting. 
