318 MR. G. KREFFT ON NEW AUSTRALIAN SNAKES. [May 13, 
ceous sort of structure ; and the form altogether presents very much 
the appearance of a bug. Ventral sucker round and rather deep. 
Length about 3 lines, breadth about 23 lines. 
Hab. ? Old collection. 
5. Descriptions of new Australian Snakes. By Gerarp 
Kroerrt, F.L.S.,C.M.Z.S8., Curator and Secretary of the 
Australian Museum at Sydney, N.S.W. 
CaACoPHIS FORDE. (Figs. 1 & 2.) 
Seales in 15 rows. Abdominal plates ——? Subcaudals 
Two anal plates. 
Total length 13 inches, head 4, tail 12. 
Figs. 1 & 2. 
Py: 
Cacophis fordei. 
Body elongate and rounded ; head rather small, not distinct from 
trunk, flat, regularly shielded ; vertical moderate, with a very sharp 
angle behind ; superciliaries much smaller, occipitals slightly larger 
than the vertical; rostral rather depressed, with a groove on its 
lower edge ; one anterior, two posterior oculars ; one large and elon- 
gate temporal shield, with two others behind, the upper one being 
nearly as large as the first temporal ; six upper labials, the third and 
fourth coming into the orbit ; these shields increase from the first to 
the last, which is the largest ; the lower labials are also six in number ; 
the eye is small, with rounded pupil; scales hexagonal, about as 
broad as they are long, except the upper rows on the back, which 
are more elongate. The head is scarcely to be distinguished from 
the body, and for one-fourth of the whole length there is no increase 
in size; the body then gradually enlarges, being much stouter pos- 
teriorly, with a short and very distinct tail. In young and half- 
grown individuals these characters are not so clearly defined; the 
tail is nearly of the same size as in the adult, rather stout, but dis- 
tinct from the body. The. general colour is a kind of sepia-brown 
above, in adults much lighter anteriorly, a white or yellowish collar 
