558 CENSUS OF AUSTRALIAN SNAKES, 



50. PSEUDECHIS PORPHYRIACUS. Shaw. 



{The Black Snake.) 



Gunth. Cat. Snakes, Brit. Mus., p. 218.— Krefft, Snakes of 

 Australia, p. 46, pis. VIII. and XI., fig. 8.— M'Coy Prod. Zool., 

 Vict., Dec. 1, pi. 1. 



Syn. Naji australis. Gray, Zool. Misc., p. 55. 



Hab. — All Australia. 



51. Pseudechis scutellatus. Peters. 

 Monatsb. der Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1867, p. 710. 

 Hah. — Rockhampton. 



Genus. BRACHYSOMA. Gunther. 



52. Brachysoma diadema. Schleg. 

 Gunth. Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. (3.) Vol. XL, p. 23.— 



Krefft, Snakes of Australia, p. 48, pi. XII., fig. 12. 



Syn. Elaps ornata Gray, Furina diadema Duin. and Bibr., 

 Rabdion occipitale Girard, Glyphodon ornatus Gunther. 



Hab. — New South Wales and Queensland. 



53. Brachysoma simile. Macleay. 

 Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales. Vol. II., p. 221. 

 Hab. — Port Darwin. 



54. Brachysoma triste. Gunth. 



Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. (3.) Vol. XL, p. 24.— Krefft, 

 Snakes of Australia, p. 50. — Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South 

 Wales. Vol. II., p. 113. 



Syn. Glyphodon tristis. Gunth. Cat. Brit. Mus., p. 211. 



Hab. — Cape York, North East Coast. 



Genus. FURINA. Dum. and Bibr. 

 55. Furina bimaculata. Dum. and Bibr. 

 Krefft, Snakes of Australia, p. 51. 



Syn. Brachysoma bimaadatum. Gunth. Cat. Brit. Mus., 

 p. 229. 



Hab. — West Australia. 





