216. PsEUDELAPS, 317 
caudals 21-85. Brown above; a light vertebral line sometimes - 
present on the anterior part of the body ; head sometimes spotted 
or variegated with dark brown; a more or less distinct dark, light- 
edged streak on each side of the head, passing through the eye, 
sometimes continued along the neck; a dark brown nuchal collar 
may be present in the young ; belly yellowish or coral-red, uniform 
or more or less profusely spotted or speckled with brown or black ; 
gular region brown or black. 
Total length 500 millim.; tail 70. 
Moluccas, New Guinea, New Britain. 
a. 9 (V.173; C. 33). N.Ceram. 
b, ¢. 4 oie 149, 155; Mysol. (Types of D. schlegelit.) 
©. 24, 21). 
d-e,f. d (V. 150; C. Mansinam, New Guinea, M. L. Laglaize [C.].} 
29) & Q (V. 169, 
151; C. 29, 25). 
g-t. 6(V.1389;C.31),  Trobriand Is, E. New Mr. A. S. Meek [0.]. 
9 (V. 152 ; 0.30), & Guinea. 
yg. (V. 145; C. 28). 
k-n. 9 (V. 150, 156, Fergusson I., E. New Mr. A.S. Meek [C.]. 
154, 152; C. 35, 34, Guinea. 
33, 30). 
o. Her. (V.160;C. 32). Duke of York I. Rev. G. Brown [0.], 
p. Yg. (V.160; C. 31), New Britain. Museum Godeffroy, 
g. Skull of g. 
2. Pseudelaps squamulosus. 
Pseudelaps squamuiosus, Dum. § Bibr. vii. p. 1235 (1854) *. 
Diemansia cucullata, Ginth. Ann. § Mag. XN HI, (8) ix. 1862, p. 129, 
& xi. 1863, p. 24. 
Petrodymon cucullatum, Krefft, Sn. Sydney, p. 55 (1865), and Sn. 
Austral. p.72, pl. vi. fig. 10 (1869). 
Pseudelaps atropolios, Jan, Icon. Gén. 43, pl. v. fig. 1 (1878). 
Eye nearly as long as its distance from the mouth. Rostral 
twice as broad as deep, just visible from above ; internasals shorter 
than the prefrontals; frontal once and a half to once and two 
thirds as long as broad, as long as its distance from the end of 
the snout, shorter than the parietals; nasal divided, in contact 
with the single preocular; two postoculars; temporals 14+2; six 
upper labials, third and fourth entering the eye, sixth very large ; 
four lower labials in contact with the anterior chin-shields, which 
are a little shorter than the posterior. Scales in 15 rows. Ven- 
trals 170-183; anal divided; subcaudals 34-52. Dark brown 
above, with a yellowish streak round the snout and through 
the eyes to the nape, where it widens and approaches its fellow ; 
lower parts whitish, closely spotted with black, the spots sometimes 
confluent into transverse lines, one to each shield. 
Total length 375 millim. ; tail 55. 
New South Wales. 
* Dr, Mocquard has kindly supplied me with notes on the type specimen, 
