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(usually divided), in contact with the single preocular. Two postoculars. 

 Temporals J + i, the lower anterior wedgefi between the fifth and sixth upper 

 labials. Six upper labials, the third and fourth entering the eye. Three lower 

 labials in contact with the anterior chin-shields, which are shorter than the 

 posterior. 



Colours. ] )ark reddish brown above. Head slightly darker abo\c, all the 

 head shields niottknl with yellow. Lower labials brown, each with an obliciuc 

 yellow streak. .\ darker edging on the najie. Anterior ventrals largely mottled 

 with brown. Markings in the thoracic region confined to the lateral erlges of the 

 \'entrals. Lateral bodv scales also mottled; subcaudals with median, faint brown 

 markings. 



Gunther (^) noted that Krefft's Ih-nisoiiia oniata "was accidentally provided 

 with a separate shield in the loreal region." 



Total LcufitJi. ,i60 mm. : tail 42 mm. 



DENISONIA MACULATA var. DEVISI nom. nov. 



Hoplocrphdlns oniatits De \'is, Proc. Roy. Soc. QUI., i, 1884, p. 100, pi. xv (not 

 Dcnisouia oniata Krefft). Bouleng. Cat. Snakes, iii, 1896, p. 341. 



Plate xxvii, fig. 2, and Text fig. 36. 

 Scales in 17 rows. Ventrals 129-140. Anal entire. Subcaudals single. 



25-37 (type). 



Fig 36. Head of DLiiisoiiia nntcnhU. 



Description. X'ertical diameter of the eye greater than its distance from tin 

 mouth. l'u|iil vertically elliptic. Rostral broader than deep: visible froni abo\-e 



ed broader than long. 

 .1 sli 

 pari 



Internasals shorter than the prefrontals, the last-named broader than long. 

 Frontal wider than the supraoculars, nearly twice as long as wide and slightly 

 longer than its distance from the end of the snout : shorter than the parietals. 



(4) GmUh. Jonrn. Mus. Godeffr., xii, 1876, p. 45 



