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Dr. A. Giinther on Australian Reptiles and Fishes. 53 
SNAKES. 
52. Tropidonotus picturatus (Schleg.). 
This snake varies in coloration. We have received a nearly 
- entirely black example from Cape York. 
Port Essington, Cape York, Rockhampton. 
53. Dendrophis punctulata (Gray). 
Attains to a length of 66 inches. | 
Port Essington, Moreton Bay, Cape York, Sydney. 
54. Dendrophis calligastra, sp. n. 
Scales in thirteen rows. Loreal none. Eight upper labials, 
the fourth and fifth entering the orbit ; one pra- and two post- 
orbitals ; temporals 1+2+2. Abdominal shields 179, strongly 
keeled. Some of the scales with a single terminal pore. 
Greenish brown above, sides of the head and neck yellow; a 
black band across the rostral shield through the eye to the side 
ofthe neck. Belly purplish yellow, powdered with purplish brown. 
_ Cape York. 36 inches long, tail 12 inches. 
55. Brachysoma diadema (Schleg.). 
Elaps ornata (Gray). 
Glyphodon ornatus (Gthr.). 
Extends over the whole of Australia. 
56. Diemenia superciliosa (Fisch.). 
= Pseudoelaps Sordelli (Jan)=Ps. Kubingii (Jan) = Cacophis Giintheri 
(Steindachner). 
New South Wales, Adelaide, Norfolk Islands ? 
_ Of this snake we possess now a series of nine examples, vary- 
ing in length from 16 to 60 inches. 
57. Hoplocephalus nigriceps (Gthr.). 
Swan River, Champion Bay. 
58. Hoplocephalus maculatus (Steindachner). 
_ The young has the upperside of the head and neck uniform 
black. 
Rockhampton. 
FROGS, 
1. Pterophryne Georgiana (Bibr.). 
Port Essington, Sydney, King George’s Sound (Krefft, 4). 
2. Pterophryne fasciata (Steindachner). 
Houtman’s Abrolhos, Sydney. (Cystignathus sydneyensis, 
Krefft, 16.) 
