330 COLTJBKID^. 



single prseocular ; two postooulars ; temporals 1 + 2 ; six upper 

 labials, third aad fourth entering the eye, third deeper than fourth, 

 sixth largest; three lower labials in contact with the anterior 

 chin-shields. Scales in 17 rows (25 on the neck). Ventrals 199- 

 210; anal divided; subcaudals 57-72, 11 to 34 anterior entire, 

 resc in pairs. Eeddish or coppery brown above, brownish white or 

 orange below, all the scales and shields edged with brown. 



Total length 1830 millim. ; tail 300. 



Murray Eiver. 



3. Pseudechis australis. 



Naja australis, Oray, Zonl. Miscell. p. 55 (1842). 

 Pseudechis porphvriacus, part., Giinth. Cat. p. 218 (1858). 



australis, Oilnth. Ann. 8r Mag. N. H. (3) xii. 1863, p. 362. 



australis, part., Krefft, Prnc. Zool. Soc. 1868, p. 3, and Sn. 



Austral, p. 47, pi. vi. fig. 11 (1869). 



Eye rather small, its diameter nearly equalling its distance from the 

 mouth. Rostral broader than deep, visible from above ; intemasals 

 about half as long as the prfefrontals ; frontal small, not or but 

 slightly broader than the supraocular, once and two thirds to twice 

 as long as broad, as long as its distance from, the rostral, two thirds 

 the length of the parietals ; posterior nasal in contact with th,e 

 single praeocular ; two postoculars ; temporals 2 + 2, lower anterior 

 large and wedged in between the fifth and sixth labials ; six uppei^ 

 labials, third and fourth entering the eye, third deeper than fourth ; 

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

 are shorter than the posterior. Scales in 17 rows (19 or 20 on the 

 neck). Ventrals 199-220 ; anal divided ; Subcaudals 57-70, 26 

 •to 41 anterior single, rest in pairs. Uniform pale brown above; 

 yellowish beneath. - 



Total length 1080 millim. ; tail 170. 



Northern Australia. 



a. 2 (V. 206; 0.65). N.E.Australia. (Type.) 



b. Hgr. ? (V. ? ; C. Victoria R., N. Dr. Dahl [C] : Ohris- 

 60). Australia. tiania Museum * [E.]. 



V. d' (V. 220; 0.70). ? 



4. Pseudechis darwiniensis. 



Pseudechis darwiniensis', Macleay, Proc. Linn Soc. N.S. W. ii. 1878, 

 ■ p. 220, & (2) iii. 1888, p. 416. 



. Of more elongate form than P. porphyriacMs. Head-shields much 

 the same as in that species, but frontal quite as broad as long and 

 much wider than the supraocular. Scales in I7 rows. Ventrals 



* A second specimen,, 825 millim. long, was obtfiined by Dr. Dahl on the 

 ■Daly River, and is preserved in the Chri!5tiania Museum. It is a female, with 

 i205 ventrala and 59 subcaudals, 37 of wliioh ^re single. ., . 



