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4. Demansia mulleri. 



Elaps miilleri, Schleg. Ess. pi. 16. f. 16, 17; MiilL Z. Ind. 

 Arch. t. 9. Pseudelaps mulleri, Dum. Sf Bibr. p. 1233. 



Olive, with two yellow or rose-coloured streaks along the sides 

 of head and neck. 

 Hab. ? 



5. Demansia annulata. 



Olive-brown, with numerous black, narrow cross bands. 



a. New Holland. Presented by R. W. Willan, Esq. 



Description of the specimen. — Habit moderate ; arrangement 

 of shields as generally in Demansia : anterior frontals very narrow ; 

 vertical not much elongate ; occipitals moderate ; anterior ocular 

 with a groove before the eye ; , one larger temporal shield in con- 

 tact with lower ocular, five smaller ones behind. Scales in 

 seventeen rows, short, rhomboid; anal bifid. Olive-brown (in 

 spirits), with seventy-two black, narrow cross bands, less conspi- 

 cuous on the tail ; first and second on the neck broadest ; crown 

 black, separated from first neck -band by a narrow, reddish-olive 

 cross streak ; sides of head whitish ; the dark coloration of crown 

 emitting a black streak to the angle of mouth. Length of cleft 

 of mouth f" ; length of tail 2^" ; total length 14 i". 



3. HoPLOCEPHALus, Cuvicr. 



Body and tail moderate, sometimes stout ; head quadrangular, 

 sometimes rather depressed, not distinct from neck, with flat 

 crown and moderate rounded muzzle. Rostral moderate; no loreal, 

 replaced by the conjunction of posterior frontal, of anterior ocular, 

 of second upper labial and nasal ; one anterior, two posterior 

 oculars ; one nasal pierced by the nostril. Scales smooth, not 

 much imbricate, in fifteen to twenty-one rows. Anal and sub- 

 caudals entire. Grooved fang in front, a series of smaller equal 

 teeth behind. Australia. (Viviparous.) 



Alecto, Dum. Sf Bibr. (not Wagler) vii. p. 1249. Naja, sp., 

 Schleg. Ess. ii. p. 4/7, &c. ; Boie, Isis, 1828, p. 1034. Elaps, sp.> 

 Gray, in Grey's Australia, p. 444. Hoplocephalus, Cuv. Regne 

 Anim. ii. p. 95, and Uebersetzung von Voigt, ii. p. 143. 



1, Hoplocephalus bungaroides. 



Naja bungaroidea, Boie, Isis, 1828, p. 1034. Naja bungaroides, 

 Schlegel, Ess. ii. p. 477, and Abbildg. t. 48. f. 17, 18. Alecto bun- 

 garoides, Dum,. 4" Bibr. p. 1257. 



Scales in twenty-one rows. Above black with white spots. 



