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KBCOIJDS 01' THIC ADSTKALIAX ML'SKCM. 



Boulenger does not mention New South Wales as a locality from 

 wliicli tliis species has been reconied, bnt on looking throiigli Stein- 

 dachiier's original description, ] find that botli his sf»ecimens are from 

 this State, and it is noted that they were collected by the author. 



Muxillanj hove. — Examination of the maxillarj^ bone shows that there 

 is a very strong projection in front of the fang, and that this projection is 

 much more pronounced than the cori^esponding one in IK viacidaUi, var. 

 tlev>.^i. The fang is followed by four sharp, strongly recurved, grooved 

 teeth, and the distal portion of each is curved almost at a right angle to 

 the basal portion (see figs. 4-5). 



The palatine and pterygoid teeth are identical in shape with the 

 maxillary teeth, but they are solid, there being no trace of grooves. 



In the Australian Museum collection this species is represented by a 

 single specimen, the type of l>etiisonia oniata, Krefft, which is from 

 Kockhampton, Queensland. (Heg. no. 6697). Many other specimens 

 which were pi'evionsly placed as D. muriiJiitu, have proved to be />. inacN- 

 hif((, var. (levisi, of Waite and Longman. 



Denisonia malculata var. nEvisi, Waite and LoHrptnnt. 



(Plate xxvi., figs. 4-5, and Figures 6, 7, 8). 



lloplocephalag oriuitus, De Vis, Proc. Roy. Soc. Qld., i., 1884, p. 100, pi. 

 XV. Id., Bouleugei", Brit. Mus. Cat. Snakes, iii., 1896, p. 341. 



Ifetiixoiiid m.acidata var. derl,"!, Waite and Longman, Rec. S.Austr. 

 Mns., i., 3, 1920, p. 178, PI. xxvii., fig. 2, text fig. 36. 



In the Anstialian Museum collection there are twenty-six specimens 

 which belong to this vaiiety, and their localities show that they are not 

 confined to western Queensland, as previously supposed. I wish to place 

 on record their extension to, and over a wide tiact of country in New 

 South Wales. One specimen is labelled as having been collected at 



