296 



Records ok the S.A. Mvseim 



Dum., Hisi. Nat. Poiss., li, IS70, p. 552; Gumh., Cat. I<"ish. Jirit. Mus., viii, 



1870. p. 174: Macl.. P.L.S., N.S.W.. vi, uSSi, p. 290. 

 Synynathiis paccUolacmus Cast., P.Z.S., \"ict., ii. 1873, p. 78. 



Syngiiathtis inodestus Sauv.. Hull. Sor. Phil. (7) lii, 1879, p. 209 (not (it (ninth). 

 Syngiuithits poekilolaenuis Ditnck., Fauna Siidwest Aust., ii, 1909, p. 245. 

 Corythroiclitliys poecilolaeiiius McCulL. Rec. W. Aust. Mus., i, 1912. p. 82, fig. 2. 



Fig. 39- 



D. 26-29: P. 12 Ul): A. 3: C.IO: Aninili 19-20 + 44-49: suh-dorsal annuli 

 1-2 + 5-6: bfood annuli (i) + 16-lS. 



Head 1-4 in the trunk and 7^4 in the total length: trunk 2-4 in the tail: 

 snout 1 -75 in the head: eye 4 '5 in the snout and S'O in the head. 



Snout nearly twice as long a.s the post-orbital portion of the head, with a 

 low luedian crest which extends on to the interorbital space ; another from the 

 top of the snout extends nearly to the nostrils, supraorbital ridge commences at 



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Fi^'. iO. Syiigiiathns pocciloliic 



. male and female. 



a point in ad\ance of the eye equal to its diameter and is continued behind the 

 eye for the saiue distance, occipital and nuchal ridges low: opercle with slightly 

 raised reticulating lines and a jironiincm median ridge. Body a little deeper 

 than broad with the ridges well derine<l : upper ridge cotuinued on to the sixth 

 caudal scute: median lateral ri<lge terminates on the last body scute below the 



