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217. DIEMBNIA. 325 



frontals ; frontal not broader than the supraocular, once and two 

 thirds to twice as long as broad, as long as or a little longer than 

 its distance from the end of the snout, a little shorter than the 

 parietals ; nasal entire, in contact with the single praeooular ; one 

 or two postoculars ; temporals 1 + 2 ; six upper labials, third and 

 fourth entering the eye, sixth largest ; four lower labials in contact 

 with the anterior chiu-shields, which are as long as the posterior. 

 Scales in 17 rows (19 or 20 on the neck). Ventrals 154-165; 

 anal divided ; subcaudals 38-51 pairs. Pale olive above, with or 

 without a few widely separated blackish cross-lines ; young with 

 a black band across the head and another across the nape, separated 

 by a yeUow band, and a yellow blotch in front of the eye ; these 

 markings becoming indistinct with age; yellowish white beneath, 

 with or without small dark spots. 



Total length 435 miUim. ; tail 80. 



Western Australia. 



a. Hgr. S (V. 154; Perth. Mr. Duboulav [C.l. 1 



C. 48). ' I 



5. Hgr. J (V. 157 ; W.Australia. Dr. Gunther [P.]. I /rp„^„= \ 

 0. 49). f Uypes-i 



c. Hgr. 2 (V. 165; N.W.Australia. 

 0.42). 



d. Yg. (V. 156; 0. ?). N.W. Australia. Oapt. Beckett [P.]. 

 «-/. d {V. 158, 156; Geraldton, W. Mr. E. H. Saunders [0.]. 



C. 51, 50). Australia. 



6. Diemenia teztilis. 

 Furina textilis, Dum. 8f Bihr. vii. p. 1242 (1854) ; Steind. Novara, 



Rept. p. 79 (1867). 

 Pseudoelaps superciliosus, Fischer, Abh. Naturw. Samb. iii. 1856, 



p. 107, pi. ii. %. 3 ; Jan, Rev. 8f Mag. Zool. 1859, p. 511, and 



Icon. Gen. 43, pi. iv. tig. 1 (1873). 

 Demansia annulata, Giinth. Cat. p. 213 (]858), and Ann, 8r Mag. 



N. H. (3) xi. 1863, p. 24. 

 Pseudoelaps sordellii, Jan, Rev. ^ Mag. Zool. 1859, p. 127, and Prodr. 



pL C (1859). 



kubingii, Jan, U. ec. 



Pseudonaja textilis, Krefft, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1862, p. 149. 

 Diemansia kubingii, Oiinth. Ann. 8f Mag. N. H. (3) ix. 1862, p. 53. 

 Diemenia supercUiosa, Giinth. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1863, p. 17, fig., and 



Zod. Rec. 1867, p. 142 ; Srefft, iSn. Austral, pp. 41 & 51, pi. vii. 



& pi. xi. fig. 10 (1869) ; McCoy, Prodr. Zool. Vict., Dec. 8, p. 11, 



pi. xxiii. fig. 1 (1879) ; Zietz, Trans. R. Soc. S. Austral, x. 1888, 



p. 300 ; F. Mull. Verh. Nat. Ges. Basel, viii. 1889, p. 696. 

 Diemansia (Pseudelaps) superciliosa, Peters, Mon, Berl. Ac. 1863, 



p. 234. • 

 Cacophis guentherii, Steind. I. c. p. 91, fig. 

 Pseudoelaps beckeri, Jan, Icon. Gen. 43, pi. iv. fig. 2 (1873). 



textilis, Jan, I. c. pi. v. fig. 5. 



Furina cucuUata, McCoy, op. cit., Dec. 4, p. 13, pi. xxxii. (1879). 



Eye moderate, rather large in the young. Eostral nearly as deep 

 as broad, the portion visible from above measuring one half to two 

 thirds its distance from the frontal; internasals one half to two 

 thirds the length of the prsefrontab ; frontal not broader than the 



