32 Kershaw, Two Snakes New to Victoria. 9 [v^xxxv. 



Family COLUBRIME. 

 Sub-family Hydrophiin^e. 

 Hydrus platurus, Linn., Yellow-bellied Sea-Snake. 



Sub-family Elapin.e. 

 Diemenia textilis, Dum. and Bibr., Brown Snake. 



syn. D. superciliosa, Fischer. 

 Furina bicucullata, M'Coy. 

 D. nuchalis, Gthr., Shield-fronted Brown Snake. 



syn. D. aspidorhyncha, M'Coy. 

 Pseudechis porphyriacus, Shaw, Black Snake. 

 P. cupreus, Blgr. 



syn. P. australis, Krefft. 

 P. microlepidotus, M'Coy, Small-scaled Brown Snake. 

 Denisonia superba, Gthr., Copper-headed Snake. 

 D. nigrescens, Gthr., Black-headed Snake. 

 D. gouldii, Gray, Gould's Snake. 

 D. coronoides, Gthr., White-lipped Snake. 

 D. flagellum, M'Coy, Little Whip Snake. 

 D. nigrostriata, Krefft. 

 Notechis scutatus, Blgr., Tiger Snake. 



syn. Hoplocephalus curtus, Schl. 

 Acanthophis antarcticus, Shaw, Death Adder. 

 Furina occipitalis, Dum. and Bibr., Black and White Ringed 



Snake. 

 Rhynchelaps australis, Krefft. 



[While the foregoing paper was in the printer's hands I 

 received from Mr. E. R. Waite, Director of the South Australian 

 Museum, Adelaide, a copy of his article, " A Review of the 

 Australian Blind Snakes," which constitutes the first part of 

 the Records of the South Australian Museum, vol. i., No. i, 1918 

 (issued 24th May, 1918). During the preparation of this con- 

 tribution Mr. Waite examined all the specimens of Australian 

 Typhlopidae in the National Museum collection, and I am 

 therefore enabled to include a complete list of the Victorian 

 species. — J. A. K.] 



Distinction for a Member. — Members will be pleased to 

 learn that one of their number, Mr. Albert Ernest Kitson, C.B.E., 

 F.G.S., F.R.G.S., director of the Geological Survey Department, 

 Gold Coast (West Africa), has recently had conferred upon him 

 the distinction of Commander of the British Empire (C.B.E.) 

 Beginning as a clerk in the Victorian Mines Department, Mr. 

 Kitson qualified himself for scientific investigations, ultimately 

 becoming the senior field geologist on the Geological Survey of 

 Victoria. In 1906, on the recommendation of Prof. J. W. 

 Gregory, F.R.S,, D.Sc, a former director of the Survey, Mr. 

 Kitson was appointed to the mineral survey of Southern Nigeria. 



