216. PSETJDELAPS. 



315 



subcaudiils 38-52, all in pairs or a few of the anterior single. Dark 

 bro-WTi or blackish above, the scales edged with lighter ; occiput and 

 nape often yellowish or pale reddish brown ; beUy yellow, outer 

 ends of the ventrals dark brown ; subcaudals dark brown in front, 

 yellow behind. 



Total length 900 millim. ; tail 125. 



North-eastern Australia and South-eastern New Guinea. 



a. t? (V. 179 ; C. 48). N.E. Australia. J. Macgillivray, Esq. 



[C.]. (Type.) 



b. c? (V. 175 ; 0. 52). N.E. Australia. G. Krefft, Esq. [P.]. 



c. Hgr. (V. 165 ; 0. 42). Torres Straits. Rev. S. Macfarlane [0.1. 



d. S (V. 166; 0.41). Cornwallis I., Torres Rev. S. Maciarlane [0.]. 

 Straits. 



Murray I., Torres 

 Straits. 



e-i. S (V. 172, 172, 170, 

 169, 169 ; C. 46, 43, 

 47, 45, 46). 



k. d (V. 170 ; 0. 47). 



Rev. S. Macfarlane [0.]. 



l-m. 5 (V. 169, 171; 



0. 40, 38). 

 n-o. cJ (V. 174 ; C. 46) Fly River, 



&hgr.(V.168;C.43). 

 p. SkuU of ^. 



Murray I., Torres 



Straits. 

 S.E. New Guinea. 



Prof. A.C.Haddon[P.]. 

 Rev. S. Macfarlane [0.]. 

 Rev. S. Macfarlane [0.]. 



216. PSEUDELAPS. 



Elaps, part., Schleff. Phys. Serp. ii. p. 435 (1837). 



Pseudelapa, part., Dum. Sf Bibr, Mem. Ac. Sc. xxiii. 1853, p. 517, and 



Erp. Ohi. vii. p. 1231 (1854) ; Jan, Elenco sist. Ofid. p. 115 (1863J. 

 Furina, part, Dum. S( Bibr. II. cc. pp. 617, 1236. 

 Glyphodon, part., Giinth. Cat. Col. Sn. p. 210 (1858). 

 Dieinansia, part., Giinth. I. c. p. 211. 

 Brachysoma, part., Giinth. I. c. p. 228 ; Krefft, Sn. Austral, p. 48 



(1869). 

 Cacophis, Giinth. Ann. Sf Mag. N. H. (3) xii. 1863, p. 361; Krefft, 



I. c. p. 73. 

 Petrodymon, Krefft, Sn. Sydney, p. 65 (1865), and I. c. p. 72. 



MaxiUary extending forwards as far as the palatine, with a pair 

 of large grooved poison-fangs followed, after a wide interspace, by 

 8 to 12 small grooved teeth ; anterior mandibular teeth strongly 

 enlarged, fang-like. Head slightly distinct from neck ; eye small, 



Pig. 23. 



jii pg 



Left maxillo-palatal bones of Psmdelaps muelleri. 

 epg. Eetopterygold. m. Maxillarj. Fg. Pterygoid, pi. Palatine. 



with vertically elliptic pupil; nasal single or divided; no loreal. 

 Body cylindrical ; scales smooth, without pits, in 15 or 17 rows ; 

 ventrals rounded. Tail moderate or short; subcaudals in two rows. 

 Australia, Moluccas, Papuasia. 



