32 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 



AIPYSURUS EYDOUXII, Gray. 

 On the coast near Bundaberg, Mr. L. H. Maynard, honorary collector, 

 secured a sea-snake which corresponds very closely with the description of the 

 above species and differs markedly from the normal form of A. Icevis, Lacep. On 

 looking through our Queensland series of A. Imvis (which is frequently met with 

 on the coast), another specimen answering to A. eydouxii was found. Although 

 somewhat variable in lepidosis and evidently closely allied, these snakes are 

 readily separable, so far as our specimens are concerned, on the points noted by 

 Boulenger. 1 This is apparently the first record of A. eydouxii for the Australian 

 coast. 



DIPSADOMORPHUS FUSCUS, Gray. 



(Plate XV.) 



In January last the Queensland Museum received a very handsome specimen 

 of our Brown Tree Snake from Ormiston, the donor being Miss Morris. The snake 

 was secured alive in a canary cage, it having made a meal of the rightful occupant 

 during the night. The wires just permitted the snake to enter, but, as frequently 

 happens, the postprandial diameter proved too great to permit of exit. The 

 photograph shown (Plate XV) depicts the snake in a characteristically bellicose 

 attitude. 



ACALYPTOPHIS PERONII, D. and B. 

 The Queensland Museum possesses a solitary specimen of this rare snake, 

 the locality of collection being Cape York. 



LIASIS CHILDRENI, Gray. 

 This constricting snake has been looked upon as an inhabitant solely of 

 the northern parts of Australia, its most southerly point in our records being 

 Port Denison. Somewhat to our surprise, a specimen was received in July last 

 which had been obtained in the Brisbane district, the donor stating that another 

 snake, apparently of the same kind, had been previously killed near by. It is 

 of course possible, though rather unlikely, that this snake had been artificially 

 transported to South Queensland, and thus its extended habit is noted with 

 diffidence. Our specimen agrees with those recorded by Lucas and Frost from 

 the Central and Northern districts in having but thirty-eight rows of scales. 2 



LIZARDS. 



DIPLODACTYLUS HILLII, sp. nov. 

 Head high, convex ; snout pointed, almost as long as the distance between 

 the anterior border of the eye and the small ear-opening; mental projecting 

 beyond the rostral; canthus rostralis obtusely defined; loreal region slightly 



1 Boulenger, B. M. C. Snakes, iii, 1896, p. 304. 



2 Lucas and Frost, Horn Expedition, ii, p. 146. 



