330 _ COLUBRID. 
single preocular; two postoculars; temporals 14+2; six upper 
labials, third and fourth entering the eye, third deeper than fourth, 
sixth largest; three lower labials in contact with the anterior 
chin-shields. Scales in 17 rows (25 on the neck). Ventrals 199-— 
210; anal divided; subcaudals 57-72, 11 to 34 anterior entire, 
rest in pairs. Reddish or coppery brown above, brownish white or 
orange below, all the scales and shields edged with brown. 
Total length 1830 millim. ; tail 300. 
Murray River. 
3. Pseudechis australis. 
Naja australis, Gray, Zool. Miscell. p. 55 (1842). 
Pseudechis porphyriacus, part., Giinth. Cat. p. 218 (1858). 
australia Giinth. Ann. §& Mag. N. H. (8) xii. 1863, p. 362. 
australis, pert ‘Krefft, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1868, p. 8, and Sn. 
Austral. p. 47, pl. vi. fig. 11 (1869). 
Eye rather small, its diameter nearly equalling its distance from the 
mouth. Rostral broader than deep, visible from above ; internasals 
about half as long as the prefrontals; frontal small, not or but 
slightly broader than the supraocular, once and two thirds to twice 
as long as broad, as long as its distance from the rostral, two thirds 
the length of the parietals; posterior nasal in contact with the 
single preocular ; two postoculars; temporals 2+ 2, lower anterior 
large and wedged in between the fifth and sixth labials; six upper 
labials, third and fourth entering the eye, third deeper than fourth ; 
three lower labials in contact with the anterior chin-shields, which 
are shorter than the posterior. Scales in 17 rows (19 or 20 on the 
neck). Ventrals 199-220; anal divided; subcaudals 57-70, 26 
to 41 anterior single, rest in pairs. Uniform pale brown above, 
yellowish beneath. 
Total length 1080 millim. ; tail 170. 
Northern Australia, 
a. 2 (V. 206; C. 65). N.E. Australia. (Type.) 
b. Hgr. 9 (V. ?; ©. Victoria R. N. Dr. Dahl [C.]: Chris- 
60). Australia, tiania Museum * [E.}. 
ce. d (V. 220; C. 70). —? 
4, Pseudechis darwiniensis. 
Pseudechis darwiniensis, Macleay, Proc. Linn Soc. N.S. W. ii. 1878, 
p. 220, & (2) iii. 1888, p. 416. 
Of more elongate form than P. porphyriacus. Head-shields much 
the same as in that species, but frontal quite as broad as long and 
much wider than the supraocular, Scales in 17 rows. Ventrals 
* A second specimen, 825 millim. long, was obtained by Dr. Dahl on the 
Daly River, and is preserved in the Christiania Museum, It 1s a female, with 
205 ventrals and 59 subcaudals, 37 of which are single. 
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