239. FURINA. 407 
the frontal, supraocular, and parietals, and a broad cross-bar on the 
nape, black ; lower parts white. 
Total length 330 millim. ; tail 25, 
W. Australia. 
a. do (V.181; C. 25). W. Australia. 
& 2 (V.191; C. 21). Australia. 
2. Furina calonota. 
Furina calonotos, Dum. & Bibr. vii. p. 1241, pl. Ixxv 6. (1854); Jan, 
Rev. § Mag. Zool. 1859, p. 125, pl. vi.; Krefft, Sn. Austral. p. 50 
(1869). 
Brachysoma calonotos, Giinth. Cat. p. 229 (1858). 
Neelaps calonotus, Giinth. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (3) xi. 1863, p. 24, 
and xy. 1865, p. 97. 
Pseudelaps calonotus, Jan, Elenco, p. 116 (1863), and Icon. Gén. 43, 
pl. v. fig. 8 (1878). 
Rostral moderately large, broader than deep, its upper portion 
shorter than its distance from the frontal ; internasals shorter than 
the prefrontals ;. frontal a little longer than broad, nearly thrice as 
broad as the supraocular, as long as its distance from the end of the 
snout, shorter than the parietals; nasal elongate, in contact with 
the preocular; latter reaching or nearly reaching the frontal; 
two postoculars; temporals 1-++1; six upper labials, third and 
fourth entering the eye; a pair of. small chin-shields. Scales in 
15 rows. Ventrals 126-131; anal divided; subcaudals 29-30. 
Yellowish, with a black vertebral stripe, each scale on which bears 
a white dot; a bar across the end of the snout, a large blotch 
covering the frontal, supraocular, and parietals, and a black cross- 
band on the nape, black; lower parts white. 
Total length 215 millim.; tail 33. 
W. Australia. 
a. 6 (V.181; C. 30). W. Australia ? * 
3. Furina occipitalis. 
White, Journ. Voy. N. S. Wales, p. 259, pl. —. fig. 2 (1790). 
Elaps occipitalis, Dum. § Bibr. vii. p. 1220 (1854); Jan, Rev. & 
Mag. Zool. 1858, p. 518, and Icon. Gén. 43, pl. ii. fig. 4 (1873). 
Vermicella annulata, Giinth. Cat. p. 236 (1858) ; Krefft, Sn. Austral. 
p. 78, pl. xi. fig. 12 (1869); McCoy, Prodr. Zool. Vict., Dec. 6, 
p. 11, pl. Iii. (1881). 
occipitalis, Giinth. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1859, p. 87, pl. xvii. fig. B. 
lunulata, Krefft, 7. c. p. 79, pl. xii. fig. 14. 
Rostral moderately large, broader than deep, its upper portion 
shorter than its distance from the frontal; internasals much 
shorter than the prefrontals +; frontal once and one third to once 
* The specimen was purchased as from Baranquilla, Colombia, together with 
a specimen of the W. Australian Rhynchelaps semifasciatus. 
+ In two specimens, the internasal on each side is fused with the prefrontal. 
