S40 



COLTJBRID^. 



contact with the anterior chin-shields, which are as long as the 

 posterior. Scales in 19 rows. Ventrals 157-164 ; anal entire ; 

 subcaudals 25-30. Palo olive-brown above, scales edged with dark 

 brown ; head dark brown above, nape black ; a black streak on 

 each side of the head, passing through the eye; a yellow spot on 

 the prseocular, and another on the postoculars ; upper lip and lower 

 parts yellowish white. 



Total length 200 millim. ; taU 23. 



Southern Australia. 



a. 2 (V. 164 ; C. 25). Adelaide. Eev. T. E. Lea [P.]. 



10. Denisonia frontalis. 



Hoplocephalus frontalis, Douglas Ogilby, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. W. (2) 

 iv. 1889, p. 1027. 



Eye small. Eostral twice as broad as deep, slightly bent back- 

 ward between the internasals, which are much shorter than the 

 praefrontals ; frontal a little longer than broad ; nasal not reaching 

 the single prseocular ; two postoculars ; temporals 2 -|- 2 ; six upper 

 labials, second in contact with the prsefrontal, third and fourth 

 entering the eye : anterior chin-shields rather larger than the 

 posterior. Scales in 19 rows. Ventrals 154 ; anal entire ; sub- 

 caudals 30. Light brown above, scales narrowly margined with 

 black ; a broad black nuchal collar, extending forwards over 

 portions of the upper labials, temporals, and the lower postocular 

 to the eye ; a black spot in front of the eye on the second and third 

 labials ; a black vertebral line ; pearly white beneath, with a 

 broad bronze-coloured median band. 



Total length 400 millim. ; tail 50. 



Narrabri, New South Wales. 



11. Denisonia flagellnm. 



Hoplocephalus fla^ellum, McCoy, Prodr. Zool. Vict., Dec. 2, p. 7, 

 pi. xi. fig. 1 (1878). , 



Eye longer than its distance from the mouth. Eostral twice as 

 broad as deep, visible from above ; internasals shorter than the 

 praefrontals ; frontal once and one fourth to once and a half as long 

 as broad, broader than the supraocular, as long as its distance from 

 the end of the snout, shorter than the parietals ; nasal entire, in 

 contact with the single prseocular ; two postoculars ; temporals 

 2-1-2, lower anterior wedged in between the fifth and sixth labials; 

 six upper labials, third and fourth entering the eye ; three lower 

 labials in contact with the anterior chin-shields, which are as long 

 as the posterior. Scales in 17 rows. Ventrals 132-138 ; anal 

 entire ; subcaudals 25-27. Pale brown above ; vertex, occiput, 

 and nape black ; upper lip and lower parts white. 



Total leugth 380 millim. ; tail 40. 



Victoria 



