216. PSBUDELAPS. 317 



caudals 21-35, Brown above ; a light vertebral line sometimes 

 present on the anterior part of the body ; head sometimes spotted 

 or variegated with dark brown ; a more or less distinct dark, light- 

 edged streak on each side of the head, passing through the eye, 

 sometimes continued along the neck ; a dark brown nuchal collar 

 may be present in the young ; belly yellowish or coral-red, uniform 

 or more or less profusely spotted or speckled with brown or black ; 

 gular region brown or black. 



Total length 500 millim. ; tail 70. 



Moluccas, New Guinea, New Britain. 



a. ? (V. 173 ; C. 33). N. Ceram. 



b, c. $ (V. 149, 155 ; Mysol. (Types of B. achlegelii.) 

 C. 24, 21). 



d-e, f. i (V. 150 ; C. Mansinara, New Guinea. M. L. Larfaize TO 1 



29) & ? (V. 169, 8 L J-. 



151 ; 0. 29, 25). 



g-i. i (V. 139 ; C. 31), Trobriand Is., E. New Mr. A. S. Meek fCl 



S(V.152;C.30),& Guinea. ^ "' 



yg.(V.145; 0.28). 



k-n. 5 (V. 150, 156, Fergusson I., E. New Mr. A. S. Meek [0.1. 



164, 152 ; 0. 35, 34, Guinea. "" -■ 



33, 30). 



0. Hgr. (V. 160 ; 0. 32). Duke of York I. Rev. G. Brown TO 1 



p. Yg. (V. 160 ; 0. 31). New Britain. Museum Godeffroy 



J. Skull of g. ■' 



2. Fseudelaps squamulosns. 



Pseudelaps squamulosus, Dam. ^Bibr. vii. p. 1235 (1854) *. 

 Diemansia cucuUata, Oiinth. Ann.& Mag, N. H. (3) ix. 1862 n 129 



& xi. 1863, p. 24. w , r- , 



Petrodymon cucullatum, Krefft, Sn. Sydney, p. 55 (1865), and Sn. 



Austral, p. 72, pi. vi. fig. 10 (1869). 

 Pseudelaps atropolios, Jan, Icon. Gin. 43, pi. v. fig. 1 (1873). 



Eye nearly as long as its distance from the mouth. Eostral 

 twice as broad as deep, just visible from above ; internasals shorter 

 than the prsefrontals ; frontal once and a half to once and two 

 thirds as long as broad, as long as its distance from the end of 

 the snout, shorter than the parietals ; nasal divided, in contact 

 with the single prseocular ; two postoculars ; temporals 1 + 2 ; six 

 upper labials, third and fourth entering the eye, sixth very large ; 

 four lower labials in contact with the anterior chin-shields, which 

 are a little shorter than the posterior. Scales in 15 rows. Ven- 

 trals 170-183; anal divided; suboaudals 34-52. Dark brown 

 above, with a yellowish streak round the snout and through 

 the eyes to the nape, where ib widens and approaches its fellow • 

 lower parts whitish, closely spotted with black, the spots sometimes 

 confluent into transverse lines, one to each shield. 



Total length 375 millim. ; tail 55. 



New South Wales. 



* Dr. Mocquard haa kindly supplied me with notes on the type speoimen. 



