BY CLIVE E. LORD. 81 



While it may be found in all localities it joi'efers, as 

 a- rule, dryer country than D. superha. Its main item 

 of food consists of lizards, which are varied with frogs 

 and other small animals. 



While the average size is from three to five feet in 

 length, larger specimens are often met with. The largest 

 specimen of this species in the Tasmaniaai Museum mea- 

 sures no less than 6ft. 2iin. 



This species produces fifty or moire young each season, 

 and the young show the same diversity of colour asi the 

 adults. On some occasions a vexy large number of young 

 are produced, especially by the Taismanian species. One 

 specimen forwarded to' the Tasmanian Museum was found 

 on dissection to contain no less than 109 young. 



Platupus latieaudatus. 



Wandering Sea Snake, 



Platurus laficaudafus, Boulanger, Cat. Sn. Brit. Mus. Vol. 



III. p. 307 (1896); 

 W^aite, Aust. Snakes, p. 68 (1898); 



Lucas aucl Le Souef, An. Aust. p. 

 188 (1909). 



Habitat: — Bay of Bengal to China Seas and S.W. 

 Pacific. 



Description : — "Scales in 19 rows. Ventals not 

 keeled 210-240. Sub^caudals 25-45. Olive above, yel- 

 lowish beneath, with 29-48 black annuli, which are as 

 broad or broader than the interspaces between them. 

 Total length 970 millimetres, tail 90 mm." — B.M. Cat. 



This species has, on rare occasions, been found on 

 the East Coast of Tasmania. There are records of its 

 occurrence in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of 

 Tasmania, and there is one specimen from Tasmania in 

 the British Museum. 



