Author: Royal Society of Victoria
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2016-12-19
Total Pages: 558
ISBN-13: 9781334652219
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Excerpt from Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria: Vol. VIII., Containing the Proceedings of the Society During 1895; Vol. IX., Containing Papers Read Before the Society During 1896 Description. - Head short, convex; snout rounded, a little longer than the distance between the eye and the ear-opening; latter very small, rounded. Body short; limbs moderate, the fore-limb stretched forward reaches the anterior border of the orbit, the hind-limb to a little behind the axilla. Digits rather long, moderately depressed, inferiorly with transverse rows of discoid scales, usually two in a row; apical dilations small, the inferior plates sub-oval. Upper surfaces covered with minute granular scales, intermixed on the back with numerous regularly disposed rounded, or bluntly conical, tubercles. Rostral very low and broad, about four times as broad as high, without median cleft; nostril pierced in a swelling between the rostral, the first labial, and three nasals; internasal space concave. Eleven upper labials, the first very large and incompletely divided from the rostral; twelve lower labials, anterior very long, projecting behind the mental. Mental trapezoid, about as broad as long. Scales on the throat minute, granular; abdominal scales fiat, roundish, juxtaposed, a little smaller than the dorsal tubercles. Tail cylindrical, tapering, with rings of scales convex above and at, subquadrangular beneath. Male with three or four blunt spines on each side of the base of the tail. Colour. Brownish-yellow above, with four broad, curved, dark brown bands on the body and five large spots on the tail; a dark brown spot behind the base Of the hind-limb most of the tubercles on the back dark brown; head from snout to behind the eyes uniform dull brown; under surfaces whitish. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
