225. BRACHYASPIS. 353 
i. Rhinhoplocephalus bicolor. 
Rhinoplocephalus bicolor, F. Mii. 1. c. pl. ix. figs. f-7. 
Snout broad, truncate ; eye a little shorter than its distance from 
the mouth. Upper portion of rostral subquadrangular, nearly twice 
as broad as long, as long as the prefrontals ; frontal a little longer 
than broad, twice as broad as the supraocular, as long as its distance 
from the end of the snout, shorter than the parietals; nasal in 
contact with the lower preocular; two preoculars, upper small ; 
two postoculars; temporals 1+2; six upper labials, third and 
fourth entering the eye; four lower labials in contact with the | 
anterior chin-shields, which are a little longer than the posterior. 
Scales in 15 rows. Ventrals 159; anal entire; subcaudals 34. 
Greyish olive above, lateral scales dark-edged; yellowish white 
beneath ; tongue white. 
Total length 395 millim.; tail 55. 
Australia. 
225. BRACHYASPIS. 
Naja, part., Schleg. Phys. Serp. ii. p. 461 (1837). 
Hoplocephalus, part., Giinth. Cat. Col. Sn. p. 213 (1858). 
Maxillary extending forwards as far as the palatine, with a pair 
of large grooved poison-fangs followed by two or three small teeth ; 
anterior mandibular teeth strongly enlarged, fang-like. Head dis- 
tinct from neck; eye small, with vertically elliptic pupil; nostril 
between two nasals; no loreal. Body stout, cylindrical; scales 
smooth, without pits, slightly oblique, in 19 rows; belly rounded. 
Tail short ; subcaudals single. 
Australia. 
1. Brachyaspis curta. 
Naja curta, Schleg. Phys. Serp. ii. p. 486 (1837), and Abbild. p. 140, 
pl. xlviii. figs. 19 & 20 (1844). 
Hoplocephalus curtus, part., Giinth. Cat. p. 216 (1858). 
—— temporalis, Giinth. Ann. §& Mag. N. H. (3) ix. 1862, p. 180, 
pl.-ix. fig. 11; Krefft, Sn. Austral. p. 65, pl. vi. fig. 5 (1869). 
Eye scarcely longer than its distance from the mouth. Rostral a 
little broader than deep, just visible from above ; internasals shorter 
than the preefrontals; frontal once and a half to twice as long as 
broad, broader than the supraocular, as long as or longer than its 
distance from the end of the snout, as long as or a little shorter than 
parietals ; nasal in contact with or narrowly separated from the 
single preocular; two postoculars; temporals 2+4 or 3+3; six 
or seven upper pa and fourth entering the eye; three 
lower labials in contact with the anterior chin-shields, which are 
shorter than the posterior. Scales in 19 rows. Ventrals 128-136 ; 
anal entire; subcaudals 30-35. Uniform olive-brown above, 
yellowish beneath. 
Total length 490 millim.; tail 70. 
Western Australia. 
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