1869.) MR. G. KREFFT ON NEW AUSTRALIAN SNAKES. 319 
dividing the head from the neck. This collar commences at the 
last labial shield, covers five scales in Jength by one (or at the angle 
two scales) wide ; it then crosses the neck, the width of a scale or 
less, and joins the opposite angle. The shields on the side of the 
face are all more or less spotted with white, including the onter 
edges of the superciliaries, the rostral, and the first pair of frontals. 
The general colour of the body covers the outer margin of every 
abdominal plate, rather jagged and irregular in the middle, but 
sharply defined on the sides, particularly in young individuals ; the 
inner margins of the two-rowed subcaudals are marked in the same 
way to the tip. The abdominal plates are otherwise of a clear straw- 
yellow, brighter in young individuals. The outer margin of each 
scale of the back is darkly shaded, with a light elongate spot in the 
middle, giving the body a keeled appearance. 
Haé. Mr. George Masters discovered this handsome little Snake 
at the Pine-Mountain, near Ipswich, Queensland, and states that it 
can be freely handled without offering to bite. 
CacopHis HARRIETTH. (Fig. 3.) 
Scales in 15 rows. Abdominal plates 193. ‘Two anal plates. 
Subcaudals 35/35, or more. 
Total length 12 inches, head 3, tail 14. 
Cacophis harriette. 
Body rather elongate and rounded ; head scarcely distinct from 
trunk, quadrangular, not much depressed; tail rather short and 
stout, distinct from the body. The vertical is rounded off behind, 
about as large again as the superciliaries ; the occipitals are rather 
small and narrow, not much larger than the vertical (too large in 
my figure). The plates on the side of the face are similar to those 
of C. fordei ; the third and fourth upper labials come under the eye, 
and the sixth and last is the largest; the temporal shields are one 
large one and two others of unequal size behind. The general colour 
is a kind of purplish brown above, each scale with a white central 
streak (except the outer row on each side), forming thirteen thin 
lines from nape to base of tail; head and ueck white above, with a 
central spot (the colour of the body) covering part of posterior 
frontals, vertical superciliaries, and occipitals, and one row of scales 
surrounding the occipitals. The shields on the side of the face, the 
lower labials, and chin-shields are dark-spotted and blotched; eye 
small, pupil rounded. Abdominal plates uniform purplish brown, 
with a light outer edge; subcaudals with similar markings. 
