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12, Denisonia maculata. 
Hoplocephalus maculatus, Steind. Novara, Rept. p.81 (1867) ; Gtinth 
Journ. Mus. Godeffr. xii. 1876, p. 46. 
Denisonia ornata, Krefft, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1869, p. 321, fig., and Sn. 
Austral. p. 82, pl. x1. fig. 4 (1869). 
Eye longer than its distance from the mouth. Rostral nearly 
twice as broad as deep, just visible from above; internasals much 
shorter than the preefrontals ; frontal once and a half 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 divided (rarely entire), in contact with the single preocular ; 
two postoculars ; temporals 2+ 2, lower anterior wedged in between 
the fifth and sixth upper labials; six upper labials, third’ and fourth 
entering the eye; three or four lower labials in contact with the 
anterior chin-shields, which are shorter than the posterior. Scales 
in 17 rows. Ventrals 121-136; anal entire; subcaudals 20-30. 
Dark grey-brown or brown above, lateral scales spotted with black ; 
a large dark brown blotch on the head, with some lighter spots or 
variegations, with a black crescentic border on the nape; sides of 
head and end of snout pale brown, spotted with black; gular 
region spotted with black; ventrals whitish, with a dark brown or 
black spot at the outer end of each ventral. 
Total length 400 millim.; tail 55, 
Queensland. 
a-d. o (V. 122,121; C.30,28), Rockhampton. Museum Godeffroy. 
2 (V. 181; C. 22), & her. 
(V. 129; ©. 20). 
e-g,h. S (V. 125; C. 29) & 2 Rockhampton. 
(V. 126, 129, 184; C. 21, 22, 
20), 
t. Skull of a. 
Hoplocephalus ornatus, De Vis, Proc. R. Soc. Queensl. i. 1884, 
p- 100, pl. xv., appears to agree in all structural characters with 
the preceding species, but the body is barred by about 50 dark 
cross-bands with irregular edges ; below the cross-bands, alternating 
angular blotches. 
Near Surat, Queensland. 
13. Denisonia punctata. (Puate XVIII. fig. 4.) 
Kye longer than its distance from the mouth. Rostral twice as 
broad as deep, visible from above; internasals two thirds the length 
of the prefrontals ; frontal once and three fourths as long as broad, 
acutely angular behind, twice as broad as the supraocular, longer 
than its distance from the end of the snout, shorter than the 
parietals ; nasal entire, in contact with the single preocular; two 
postoculars ; temporals 2+ 2, lower anterior wedged in between the 
fifth and sixth labials; six upper labials, third and fourth entering 
the eye; three lower labials in contact with the anterior chin- 
