217, DIFMENIA, 325 
frontals ; frontal not broader than the supraocular, once and two~ 
thirds to twice as long as broad, as long as or a little longer than 
its distance from the end of the snout, a little shorter than the 
parietals ; nasal entire, in contact with the single preocular; one 
or two postoculars; temporals 1+2; six upper labials, third and 
fourth entering the eye, sixth largest; four lower labials in contact 
with the anterior chin-shields, which are as long as the posterior. 
Seales in 17 rows (19 or 20 on the neck). Ventrals 154-165; 
anal divided; subcaudals 38-51 pairs. Pale olive above, with or 
without a few widely separated blackish cross-lines; young with 
a black band across the head and another across the nape, separated 
by a yellow band, and a yellow blotch in front of the eye; these 
markings becoming indistinct with age; yellowish white beneath, 
with or without small dark spots. 
Total length 435 millim, ; tail 80, 
Western Australia. 
a. aan 3 (V.154; Perth. Mr. Duboulay [C.]. ) 
). 48). 
b. Hgr. o (V. 157; W. Australia. Dr. Giinther [P.]. 
ats 8 ( 'e ustralia r. Giinther [P.] \ (Ty pes.) 
c. Her, 9 (V. 165; N.W. Australia 
42). 
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d. Yg.(V.156; C.?). N.W. Australia. Capt. Beckett [P.]. 
e-f. 3 (V. 158, 156; Geraldton, W. Mr. E. H. Saunders [C.]. 
C. 51, 50). Australia, 
6. Diemenia textilis. 
Furina textilis, Dum. § Bibr. vii. p. 1242 (1854); Steind. Novara, 
Rept. p. 79 (1867). 
Pseudoelaps superciliosus, Fischer, Abh. Naturw. Hamb. iii. 1856, 
p- 107, pl. ii. fig. 3; Jan, Rev. § Mag. Zool. 1859, p. 511, and 
Leon. Gén. 43, pl. iv. tig. 1 (1873). 
Demansia annulata, Giinth. Cat. p. 213 (1858), and Ann. §& Mag. 
N. H. (8) xi. 1863, p. 24. 
Pseudoelaps sordellii, Jan, Rev.§ May. Zool. 1859, p. 127, and Prodr, 
pl. C (1859). 
kubingii, Jan, ll,-ce. 
Pseudonaja textilis, Krefft, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1862, p. 149. 
Diemansia kubingii, Giinth. Ann. §& Mag. N. H. (8) ix. 1862, p. 53. 
Diemenia superciliosa, Giinth. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1863, p. 17, fig., and 
Zool. Rec. 1867, p. 142; Krefft, Sn. Austral. pp. 41 & 51, pl. vii. 
& pl. xi. fig. 10 (1869) ; McCoy, Prodr. Zool. Vict., Dec. 3, p. 11, 
pl. xxiii. fig. 1 (1879) ; Zretz, Trans. R. Soc. S. Austral. x. 1888, 
p-.3800 ; F. Mill. Verh, Nat. Ges. Basel, viii. 1889, p. 696. .. 
Diemansia (Pseudelaps) superciliosa, Peters, Mon, Berl. Ac. 1863, 
. 234, 
Eaacghis guentherii, Steind. 1. c. p. 91, fig. 
Pseudoelaps beckeri, Jan, Icon. Gen. 43, pl. iv. fig. 2 (1873). 
textilis, Jan, 1. c. pl. v, fig. 5. 
Furina cucullata, McCoy, op. cit., Dec. 4, p. 18, pl. xxxii. (1879). 
__ Eye moderate, rather large in the young. Rostral nearly as deep 
_as broad, the portion visible from above measuring one half to two 
thirds its distance from the frontal; internasals one half to two 
thirds the length of the preefrontals ; frontal not. broader than the 
