216. PsHUDELAPS. 319 
long as the posterior. Scalesin 15 rows. Ventrals 176-193; anal - 
divided ; subcaudals 29-35. Dark brown above, each scale with a 
light longitudinal line; a large yellowish blotch on the nape, 
connected with the yellowish colour of the sides of the head and 
end of snout; lateral head-shields spotted and streaked with dark 
brown ; ventrals and subcaudals PRO or blackish, edged with 
whitish. 
Total length 415 millim. ; tail 45. 
Queensland. 
a-b. 2 (V.178; C. 29) Gayndah. ) Museum Godeffroy — 
& yg. (V. 176; C. 34). 
6. Pseudelaps diadema. 
Calamaria diadema,. Schley. Phys. Serp. ti..p. 32 (1837). 
Elaps ornatus, Gray, Zool. “Miscell. p. 55 (1842). 
Furina diadema, Dum. § Bubr. vu. p. 1239 (1854); Jan, Rev. & 
Mag. Zool. 1859, p. 124. 
Rabdion occipitale, Girard, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1857, p. 181, and 
U.S. Explor. Exped., Herp. p- 120 (1858). 
Glyphodon ornatus, Giinth. Cat. p- 210 (1858). 
Pseudelaps diadema, Jan, Elenco, p. 116 (1863), and Icon. Gen. 438, 
pl. v. fig. 4 (1873). 
Brachysoma diadema, Gtinth. Ann. § Mag. N. H. (8) xi. 1868, 
p. 23; Krefft, Sn. Austr. p. 48, pl. xii. fig. 12 (1869). 
Cacophis blackmanni, Krefft, Proc. Zool. Soe. 1869, p. 820, fig., 
and l, c. p. 77, pl. xii. fig. 9. 
Brachysoma sine, Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. W. ii. 1878, 
p. 221 
Eye longer than its distance from the mouth. Rostral not quite 
‘twice as broad as deep, just visible from above; internasals shorter 
than the prefrontals ; frontal once and one fifth to once and two 
‘thirds as long as broad, as long as or a little longer than its distance 
from the end of the snout, shorter than the parietals; nasal entire, 
widely separated from the single preocular; two postoculars ; 
‘temporals 2+2, lower anterior wedged in between the fifth and 
‘sixth upper .labials, sometimes reaching the lip and forming an 
additional labial; six (or seven) upper labials, second or second 
and third in contact with the preefrontal, third and fourth entering 
the eye; three or four lower labials in contact with the anterior 
chin-shields, which are as long as or a little shorter than the 
posterior. Scales in 15 rows... Ventrals 164-203; anal divided ; 
subcaudals 40-62. Pale brown or reddish above, each scale edged 
with dark brown, forming a reticulate pattern, or uniform dark 
brown; head and nape dark brown or black above, with a yellow 
cross-band on the occiput or a transversely oval yellow blotch 
surrounded with dark brown; lower parts uniform white. 
Total length 600 millim. ; tail 80, 
Eastern, Northern, and Western Australia. 
a. & (V.169; C. 62): W. Australia. W. Buchanan, Esq. 
(Type of E. ornatus. 
b. Yg. (V. 177; C. 53). N. Austealis. Dr. J. R. Elsey [P.}. 
