48 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 



ASPIDIOTES RAMSAYI, Macleay. 

 A verj^ robust specimen of Aspidiotcs ramsayi, just over 2 metres in 

 length, has been forwarded from Yenlba in Western Queensland by Mr. J. P. 

 Bennett. Some doubt has been expressed as to the presence of suboculars 

 separating the upper labials from the eye in this species. Macleay 's type is 

 apparently lost, and his description has been differently interpreted by 

 Bouleuger"* and E. R. Waite." In specimens examined by the last-named, the 

 seventh labial enters the eye, but our snake is of interest because there are very 

 distinct shields separating the labials from the eye on each side. Each new 

 specimen received adds to our knowledge of the variability of the head-shields 

 of these snakes. 



RHYNCHELAPS AUSTRALIS, Krefft. 



Ten Queensland specimens of this snake were recently examined, and the 

 following variations may be noted. In one the maximum number of body-scales 

 is but 15, and there are but 5 upper labials. Two other examples show this 

 reduction of the upper labials, and Krefft also noted a Clarence River specimen 

 with this variation.^" In all our specimens the frontal is distinctly shorter than 

 its distance from the end of the snout. The internasals are in one case completely 

 separated by the posterior angle of the rostral. 



RHYNCHELAPS LATIZONATUS, De Vis. 



This snake, described by De Vis in Annals of the Queensland Museum, 

 No. 6, 1905, p. 49, cannot be separated from the larger forms of Furina 

 occipitalis, D. & B. 



PSEUDELAPS CHRISTIEANUS, Fry. 



In February, 1915, we received from Mr. Gerald F. Hill a species of 

 Pseudelaps from Port Darwin which the writer described in manuscript as new, 

 associating with it the name of the donor, to v/hom the Queensland ^luseum is 

 indebted for many interesting specimens. Correspondence with ]\Ir. D. B. Fry, 

 then of the Australian IMuseum, Sydney, showed that he had previously received 

 tlie same species from the same locality, and this was subsequently described and 

 figured as Pseudelaps ehristieanus}'^ Our specimen agrees well with Fry's 

 description, but is somewhat larger, being 290 mm. in length. There are 175 

 ventrals and 57 pairs of subcaudals (tail uninjured). The writer has also 

 received a specimen of the allied Pseudelaps diadema from Port Darwin. 

 Garman recorded this species from Cooktown'". and Boulenger from ''North 

 Australia." 



LIZARDS. 



CALYPTOTIS FLAVIVENTER, De Vis. 

 In 1886 De Vis described,^" in conjunction with three species of Salarius, 

 a new geniLs and species of skink which appear to have escaped notice except for a 

 nominal record in Lucas and Frost's list.^* Although the type is lost, there is 



* Boulenger, B.M.C. Snakes, i, p. 92. 



» Waite, P.L.S. N.S.W., ix, p. 715, 1894. 



10 Krefffc, Snakes of Australia, 1869, p. 52. 



" Fry, Roy. Soc. Qld., xxvii, pt. 1, p. 91, 1915. 



12 Bull. Mus. Comp. ZooL, Harv., xxxix, p. 12, 1901. 



" Proe. Roy. Soc. Qld., ii, 1886, p. 57. 



" Aus. Assn. Ad. Sci., Rep. 1901, p. 261. 



