On a new Elapine Snake from Australia. 333 



black, til)ige yellow. Wings clear, very slightly tinged 

 yellowish brown. 



Length 16 mm. 



Face black, with dull brown tomf>ntum and yellowish-brown 

 pubescence, some black hairs on the upper part of cheeks and 

 under antennte ; beard yellowish brown. Palpi dull brownish 

 black with black pubescence, stout, ending in a short point. 

 Antcnnai black, with long and slender third joint and hardly 

 any tooth ; the first two joints with long black pubescence ; 

 the subcallus the same colour as the face. Forehead about 

 three times as long as bioad, the same width throughout, 

 dull blackish brown with yellowish-brown tomentum and 

 long black pubescence ; the frontal callus small, reddish 

 brown, oval, the line proceeding from it indistinct; the vertex 

 black, with tubercle. Eyes covered with short yellowish- 

 brown pubescence. Thorax black, shining, with no stripes ; 

 the dorsum nearly bare ; shoulder-spots reddish with some 

 yellowish-grey hairs, which are continued round the base of 

 tlie thorax ; sides with black pubescence ; breast black, with 

 greyish-yellow pubescence and some black hairs. Scutellum 

 shining, black. Ab lomen l)lack, somewhat shining; the first 

 segment narrowly red at the sides ; the second segment 

 broadly red at the sides with narrow reddish segmentations ; 

 the following segments with extremely narrow, grey-haired 

 segmentations. Legs black; tibiae yellowish with apices 

 black; the femora with greyish pubescence; the tibiae with 

 dense whitish pubescence, on their black apices and on the 

 tarsi it is black. Wings hyaline, the yellowish-browa 

 colouring is chiefly round the longitudinal veins of the fore 

 border and is very faint ; veins and stigma brown. 



L. — J^escn'ption of a new Elapine Snake from Australia. 

 By (jr. A. JJOULENGER, F.li.S. 



Two years ago I described in these * Annals ' * a new Elapine 

 snake discovered by Mr. W. Stalker near Alexandria, in 

 the Northern Territory of the colony of South Australia, 

 and which formed part of a small collection presented to 

 the British Museum by Sir W. Ligram, Bart., and the Hon. 

 John Forrest. That snake was named iJenisonia forresti. 

 Mr. Stalker has continued collecting in the same district, and 



* Sur. 7, vol. xviii. 190G, p. 140. 



