350 COLUBRID, 
entire ; subcaudals 44-59. Dark olive above, with or without 
a darker vertebral streak ; head pale olive, with a bright yellow 
occipital blotch, edged with black behind and sometimes bearing 
a few black spots; a black bar across the forehead in front of the 
frontal; sides of head with black spots; lower labials and chin 
usually spotted with black ; lower parts greyish olive or brown, 
Total length 510 millim.; tail 95, 
Queensland, New South Wales. 
a-b. g (V. 191; C. 58) Rockhampton. Museum Godeffroy. 
& yg. (V. 197; C. 44). 
ce. Hgr. (V. 201; C. 52), Rockhampton, 
d. Yg. (V.192; C. 59). Clarence h. 
G. Krefft, Esq. [P.]. 
e. Head of adult, Clarence R. G. Kretft, Esq. | P. 
3. Hoplocephalus stephensii, 
ge ey stephensii, Krefft, Sn. Austral. p. 58, pl. vi. fig. 7 
(1869). 
Head-shields as in H. bungaroides, but frontal broader and 
parietals longer. Scales in 21 rows. Ventrals 239, flat beneath, 
notched and strongly angulate laterally; anal entire; subcaudals 
60. Body barred alternately with black and white; the black 
bars twice the size of the white ones, and reaching down to 
ventral keel ; head dark, spotted with yellow; a UJ-shaped yellow 
streak on the back of the head. 
Total length 760 millim, 
Port Macquarie, New South Wales, 
222, TROPIDECHIS. 
Tropidechis, Giinth. Ann. §& Mag. N. H, (8) xii. 1863, p. 868; 
refft, Sn. Austral. p. 71 (1869). 
Maxillary extending forwards as far as the palatine, with a pair 
of large grooved poison-fangs followed by four small solid teeth ; 
mandibular teeth, anterior longest. Head distinct from neck; eye 
rather small, with round pupil; nasal entire; no loreal. Body 
cylindrical; scales strongly keeled, without pits, in 23 rows; 
ventrals rounded, ‘Tail moderate; subcaudals single, 
Australia, 
1, Tropidechis carinatus. (Piare XIX. fig. 1.) 
Hoplocephalus carinatus, Krefft, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1863, p. 86. 
Tropidechis carinata, Giinth. Ann. § Mag. N. H. 5) xii, 1863, 
p. 850; Krefft, Sn. Austral. p. 71 (1869). 
Eye as long as its distance from the mouth. Rostral broader 
than deep, just visible from above; internasals shorter than the 
prefrontals ; frontal once and a half as long as broad, once and a 
half as broad as the supraocular, as long as its distance from the 
end of the snout, two thirds the length of the parietals; nasal 
