364 COLUBRID. 
its distance from the end of the snout, as long as or a little longer 
than the parietals; nasal elongate, in contact with the preocular, 
which is narrowly separated from the frontal; two postoculars ; 
temporals 1+1; five or six upper labials, third and fourth entering 
the eye; three lower labials in contact with the anterior chin- 
shields, which are very small; posterior chin-shields indistinct. 
Seales in 17 rows. Ventrals 143-170; anal divided; subcaudals 
17-25. Yellowish above, with brown cross-bands; a large brown 
blotch on the head, covering the frontal, supraoculars, and parietals, 
and another on the nape ; lower parts white. 
Total length 300 millim ; tail 30. 
West Australia. 
a-b. § (V.148; C. 22) & hgr. "West Australia ? (Types.) 
(V. 154; C. 22). | 
fr ant (V. 168, 161; West Australia. Mr. Duboulay [C.]. 
. 19, 25). : 
e-f. 3 (V. 150; C. 28) & 9 Chapman R., W. Mr. E. H. Saunders 
(V.170; 0.17). Australia, [C.]. 
g. Skull of f. 
4, Rhynchelaps fasciolatus. 
Rhinelaps fasciolatus, Giinth. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (4) ix. 1872, p. 84, 
pl. v. fig. B. 
Vermicella fasciata, Stirling §& Zietz, Tr. R. Soc, S. Austral. xvi 
1893, p. 175, pl. vi. fig. 4. 
Snout much depressed, prominent, rounded, with angular edge. 
Eye measuring two thirds its distance from the mouth. Rostral 
large, broader than deep, obtuse-angled behind, the portion visible 
from above a little shorter than its distance from the frontal ; inter- 
nasals shorter than the preefrontals ; frontal once and one fourth to 
once and a half 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 widely separated from the preocular, which nearly 
reaches the frontal; two postoculars; temporals 1+1; six upper 
labials, second and third in contact with the prefrontal, third and 
fourth entering the eye; three lower labials in contact with the 
anterior chin-shields; an azygous scale between the four chin- 
shields, which are small. Scales in 17 rows. Ventrals 145-161; 
anal divided; subcaudals 22-27. Reddish above, with numerous 
transverse series of blackish-brown spots, the anterior of which are 
confluent into cross-bars ; a large blackish-brown blotch on the head, 
from the posterior part of the prefrontals to the posterior border of 
the parietals; two broad blackish-brown cross-bands on the nape ; 
uniform white beneath. | 
Total length 335 millim. ; tail 30. 
West Australia. 
a. 2 (V. 161; C. 22). Perth. Mr, Duboulay [C.]. (Type.) 
