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of scales, except on the neck, where they are broader and 

 cover four rows of scales, and towards the tail, where they 

 occasionally embrace two rows. On the head is a broad 

 dark brown band extending from the anterior edge of the 

 frontal to the posterior edge of the parietals, and spreading 

 on either side to the upper edge of the labials, enclosing the 

 eyes. On the hind neck is a similar, though broader, band, 

 the scales on the posterior half of which are white-centred. 



The single example was taken at Speed, west of Lake Tyrrell, 

 and forwarded to the Museum by Mr. Donald Macdonald. 



Denisonia nigrostriata, Krefft. 



This is of a yellowish-white colour, the scales of the sides 

 narrowly edged with grey, and a similarly coloured vertebral 

 line extends from the necK to the tip of the tail. The head is 

 grey above, the upper lip and lower parts white. 



A single specimen, measuring 13J inches, was taken at 

 Ouyen, North-Western Victoria, by Mr. A. S. Kenyon, and a 

 second specimen, from South Australia, is in the Museum 

 collection. 



The total number of snakes recorded from Victoria, including 

 the Typhlopidffi (Blind Snakes) and excluding two doubtful Vic- 

 torian species — viz., Dendrophis pnnctatus and Denisonia signata 

 (recorded by Mr. D. Le Souef in vol. i., 1884, p. 86, of this 

 journal) — is now twenty-six. Of these, Denisonia nigrescens, 

 Krefft, recorded for the first time in Victoria in the Vict. Nat., 

 vol. XXV. (1908), p. 91, has since been taken at Cunninghame 

 and Bruthen, in Eastern Gippsland, and at least four speci- 

 mens of the Yellow-bellied Sea-Snake, Hydrus platiirns, Linn., 

 are known to have been taken in Victorian waters. 



In view of the additions and changes in nomenclature of 

 our Victorian snakes which have been made since the list 

 published in the first volume of the Naturalist was compiled, 

 I take the opportunity of adding a complete list of the Vic- 

 torian species : — 



Family TYPHLOPID^. 



Typhlops proximus, Waite. 



T. polygrammicus, Schleg. 



T. unguirostris, Peters. 



T. ligatus, Peters. 



T. pinguis, Waite. 



T. broomi, Blgr. 



T. wiedii, Peters. 



T. bituberculatus, Peters. 



T. australis. Gray. 



Family B0ID.E. 



Python spilotes, Lacep., Carpet Snake. 



