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and tail banded with narrow light ashy brown bands, and a 

 blackish line formed by the black margins of a series of scales, 

 the bands and lines being about 50 in number, rather indistinct 

 on the neck and tail. The tail is laterally flattened towards the 

 end, and shows an irregular row of white dots along the side, 

 from the anal shield to the tip ; all the under surface is whitish 

 yellow, closely spotted with dark brown, in a double line along the 

 sides ; and in a regular transverse series through the centre of 

 each abdominal plate ; gular scales with one spot on each ; chin 

 shields, and lower labials, white, with blackish irregular markings. 

 The six upper labials more or less margined with whitish below ; 

 the 4th, 5th, and 6th, and the temporal, blackish in their central 

 portions. 



Total length of the specimen, 16*5 inches ; head, 1 inch by 

 0*6 inch ; tail, 3 inches ; from the eye to the snout, 0*35 inch ; 

 from snout to angle of mouth, 0'8 inch. 



Hob. Cape York. 



This species may be distinguished from all other species I 

 know of by its elongated head, round pupil, large eye, and high, 

 overhanging superciliary shields. The nostril is also large, 

 and placed a little behind the middle of a large elongated nasal 

 plate. 



The specimen above described, the Museum has lately received 

 in a collection of reptiles, &c, from Cape York, presented by Mr. 

 W. Powell, of Somerset. During my last tour in Northern Queens- 

 land, I examined a large number of Death-adders, one of the 

 most common snakes there, but without meeting with any but 

 the common Sydney species, Acanthophis antardica. 



EXHIBITS. 



Mr. E. P. Ramsay exhibited a new species of Euryscaphus, 

 family Scaritidce. Three specimens of a burrowing frog, allied 

 to Lymnodynastes dorsalis (Gray), taken by James Ramsay, Esq., 

 near the Merool Creek, Lachlan district. A species of Antennarius, 

 of an inky-black colour, taken in Port Jackson. Specimens of 

 Po'ephila mirabilis, illustrative of the differences in plumage ex- 

 hibited in this species. Specimen of the death-adder, Acanthophis 

 praelongus, described in the last paper. 



