326 COLUBRID. 
supraocular, once and three fourths 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 (rarely 
divided), in contact with the single preocular; two (rarely three) 
postoculars ; temporals 142; six upper labials, third and fourth 
entering the eye, sixth largest; four lower labials in contact with 
the anterior chin-shields, which are nearly as long as the posterior. 
Scales in 17 rows (20 to 23 on the neck). Ventrals 190-2382 ; 
anal divided; subcaudals 46-73, all or most in pairs. Adult 
uniform pale brown or dark olive-brown above, whitish or olive 
beneath ; young with a black blotch on the crown, separated from 
a large black blotch on the nape by an orange cross-band ; belly 
spotted with brown or black. 
Total length 1700 millim.; tail 290. 
Eastern Australia, from Cape York to Victoria. 
A. No cross-bars on the body. 
a. do (V. 215; C. 69). New South Wales. nee Institute [P.]. 
b. Her. (V. 220; C. 67). New South Wales. G. Krefft, Esq. [P.|. 
ce. Hgr. (V. 207; C. 67). Sydney. G. Krefft, Esq. [P.}. 
d. Her. (V. 202; C. 64). Sandhurst, Victoria. Col. Beddome [C.]. 
e. Yg. (V. 202; ©, 66). Adelaide. G. Krefft, Esq. [P.]. 
t. Yg. (V. 197; C. 67). Adelaide. Prof. Peters rp. ; 
g. Yg. (V. 213; C. 52). Adelaide. Rev. T. S. Lea [P.]. 
h. 2 (V. 218; C. 68). Norfolk Id. Sir A. Smith [P.]. 
B. Body with black cross-bars. 
> ata (V. 200, 194; New South Wales. Imperial Institute [P.]. 
. 66, 61). 
e. Yg. (V. 195; C. 60). Sydney. G. Krefft, Esq. [P.]. 
d. Yg. (V. 194; C. 68), Sydney. Dr. Corrie ir ; 
e. Yg. (V.193; C.71). Australia. Rk. W. Willan, Esq. 
PP} (Type of 
. annulata.) 
7. Yg. (V. 191; C. 64). Australia. Capt. Stokes [P.]. 
7. Diemenia nuchalis. 
Pseudonaja nuchalis, Giinth. Cat, p. 227 (1858), and Proce. Zool. Soc. 
1868, p. 17, fig. ; MeCoy, Ann. f Mag. N. H. (8) xx. 1867, p. 182; 
Krefft, Sn. Austral. p. 44, pl. xii. fig. 18 (1869) ; Macleay, Proe. 
err Soc. = W. ii. 1878, p. 219; De Vis, Proc. R. Soe. Queensl. 
i. , p. 58. 
f affinis, Giinth, Ann. § Mag. N. H. (4) ix. 1872, p. 85, pl. iv. fig. C. 
Diemenia aspidorhyncha, McCoy, Prodr. Zool. Viet., Dec. 8, p. 18, 
pl. xxiii. fig. 4 (1879). 
Eye moderate, Rostral deeper than broad, the portion visible 
from above as long as its distance from the frontal; internasals 
shorter than the prefrontals; frontal broader than the supraocular, 
once and a half to once and two thirds as long as broad, as long as 
or a little shorter than its distance from the end of the snout, two 
thirds to three fourths the length of the parietals; nasal entire or 
semidivided, in contact with the single prwocular; two postoculars ; 
temporals 1+2; six upper labials, third and fourth entering the 
