56 ON A LIZARD AND THREE SPECIES OK SALARIAS, ON A LIZARD AND THREE SPECIES OE SALAEIAS, &c. BY C. W. DE VIS, M.A. The Queensland Museum has been frequently indebted to two zealous friends, Mr. F. A. Blackman and Mr. D. Macplierson, for appai-ently new forms of vertebrates — more especially those which belong to tribes which are but too liable to be overlooked by observers to whom size or utility are the chief attractions. Mr. Blackman keeps a watchful eye upon, amongst other things, the smaller lizards, and we have no reason to fear that his pursuit (if them will cease for lack of interesting objects. That particular lizard for example which he now enables us to study is an addition tc the number of lines connecting the Seines with the Pygopidse. The latter are one of the peculiai-ities of the Australian fauna, and it is in that fauna rather than any other that we may expect to find whatever intermediate forms may be extant, and several are already known, between the com-paratively stout and strong-limbed Hinulias and the nearly limbless and snake-like Pygopus or Lialis. Every link of this kind is of gi-eat morphological interest : and, theoretically con-sidered, adds another to the difficulties of special creation. The lizard before us, collected by Mr. Blackman at Breakfast Creek, near Brisbane, fails to effect an entrance into any one of the genera known to the writer. It is excluded from Lygosoma audits nearer allies by the absence of a visible ear; by virtue of its full complement of toes, together with its scaly lower eyelid, it stands apart from Cheilomeles; and even from its nearest affine the Javan genus, Podophys, it is differentiated by
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