Memoirs of the Queensland Museum – Nature 66

The collector of the lectotype of the pygopod lizard Delma tincta De Vis 1888 is identified as Richard William Comley, a pharmacist living in Normanton. Comley, baptised in Wiltshire England in 1844, arrived in Australia in 1865. He is first recorded as living in Dalby in 1881, had moved to Normanton by 1882 and died there in 1904. He was a trustee, committee and council member of several local bodies and also leased a block of land on Walker’s Creek, north of Normanton. It is likely that he collected the lectotype in the vicinity of Normanton itself, or from his property on Walker’s Creek, rather than Normanton representing only a shipping point.