1877.] FISHES FROM DUKE-OF-YORK ISLAND. 131 
scales in seventeen rows, all keeled ; ventrals 196, anal bifid; sub- 
caudals 99; anterior frontals truncated in front; loreal as high 
as long; two preeoculars, the upper just reaching to the upper 
surface of the head; three postoculars, the lower of which is the 
narrowest and smallest ; 9 upper labials, the fifth and sixth enter- 
ing the orbit ; temporals 2+3, the two anterior in contact with the 
postocular. The dentition is syncranterian, almost isodont. Upper 
parts brownish olive, with small blackish and whitish spots longitu- 
dinally arranged. Lower part of the anterior half of the trunk 
whitish, with a series of black spots along the median line of the 
abdomen, each scute having a black spot. In the middle of the 
length of the trunk the dark colour of the sides gradually encroaches 
on the scutes, which, on the hinder half of the body and on the tail, 
are uniform blackish. 
One specimen, thirty-two inches long, the length of the tail being 
nine inches. 
Drnpropuis MACROPS, sp. n. 
This Snake is distinguished from Dendrophis solomonis by its 
large eye, the diameter of which exceeds its distance from the nos- 
tril. Scales in thirteen rows; loreal large, longer than high ; eight 
or nine upper labials, two of which enter the orbit; one preeocular 


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Head of Dendrophis macrops, 
not extending to the vertical; two postoculars ; temporals irregu- 
larly arranged, 2+2+ 2; ventrals 195, strongly keeled ; subcaudals 
140; vertebral scales of moderate size; upper parts uniform olive- 
coloured ; scales with an elongate white spot on the outer margin ; 
upper part of head brownish olive; lower parts uniform greenish. 
One specimen, forty-six inches long, the tail being fourteen inches. 
Erezopuis, g. n. Erycid. 
Body stout and thick, covered with short scales, which are arranged 
in numerous rows, and provided with exceedingly strong keels. 
Head resembling that of a Crotaline suake, covered above and on the 
side with numerous scales ; rostral flat, truncated, oblique, not ex- 
tending to the upper surface of the snout 3; nostril very small, in the 
middle of an oblong shield ; eyes small, surrounded by small scales ; 
ventrals rather narrow ; tail very short, slightly prehensile, with a 
single series of subcaudals; teeth in both jaws numerous, the ante- 
rior of the maxillary, mandible, and palatine bones much enlarged ; 
tongue remarkably slender ; no rudiments of hind limbs. 
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