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which for some time I took to be D. Galligastra, Gunth. I believe 

 now that I have never seen the last-named species, nor have T 

 ever came across a Dendrophis without the loreal shield. 

 Two specimens from Katow. 



8. — Dendrophis Darnletensis. 



Very elongate and strongly keeled on the ventral shields ; 

 head broad and flat, loreal shield twice as long as high ; upper 

 labials 8, lower 9 ; abdominal shields 175, subcaudals 130-130; 

 total length, 3 feet 6 inches ; tail, 15 inches ; colour, olive above, 

 beneath greenish white, speckled with black. As in the last spe- 

 cies, there is a black stripe from the muzzle along the side of the 

 neck, but in this species it is broader on the head, and leaves a 

 yellow spot on the lower part of the anterior ocular shield and 

 on the upper part of the posterior ocular. I am inclined to think 

 that this is identical with the species mentioned above as having, 

 come from the Endeavour River. 



Two specimens were captured at Darnley Island. 



Family DIPSADID^E. 



9. — DlPSAS FUSCA. 



Dendrophis fusca, Gray, Zool. Misc. 1842, p. 54. 



Triglyphodon flavescens, Dum. and Bibr., p. 1080. 



Dipsas fusca, Gunth. Cat. Brit. Mus., Snakes, p. 171 ; Krefft, 

 Snakes of Australia, p. 26, pi. V. f., 7-7a. 



One young and small specimen was got at Katow. I am not 

 by any means confident that it is not a distinct species. 



Family LYCODONTID^E. 



10. — Lycodon Darnleyensis. 



Body moderately elongate and compressed, witli the median 

 line of the back and each side of the abdominal shields slightly 

 angled; head narrow, slightly narrowed at the neck; rostrol 

 shield large and triangular above, loreal longer than high ; one 

 anterior and two posterior oculars ; upper labials 9, lower 10 ; 

 eye small, abutting on the 4th and 5th labials ; pupil elliptical ; 



