219. DENISONIA. 341 



12. Denisonia maculata. 



Hoplocephalusmaculatusj^femrf. Novara, iEepi.p.81 (1867) ; Gilnth 



Journ. Mm. Godeffr. xii. 1876, p. 46. 

 Denisonia omata, Krefft, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1869, p. 321, 6s., and Sn. 



Austral, p. 82, pi. xi. fig. 4 (1869). 



Eye longer than its distance from the mouth. Eostral nearly 

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

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

 two thirds as long as broad, as long as or a little longer than its 

 distance from the end of the snout, shorter than the parietals ; 

 nasal divided (rarely entire), in contact vrith the single prseocular ; 

 two postooulars; temporals 2+2, lower anterior wedged in between, 

 the fifth and sixth upper labials ; six upper labials, third and fourth 

 entering the eye ; three or four lower labials in contact with the 

 anterior chin-shields, which are shorter than the posterior. Scales 

 in 17 rows. Ventrals 121-136 ; aual entire ; subcaudals 20-30. 

 Dark grey-brown or brown above, lateral scales spotted with black ; 

 a large dark brown blotch on the head, with some lighter spots or 

 variegations, with a black crescentie border on the nape ; sides of 

 head and end of snout pale brown, spotted with black ; gular 

 region spotted with black ; ventrals whitish, with a dark brown or 

 black spot at the outer end of each ventral. 



Total length 400 millim. ; tail 55. 



Queensland. 



o-<?. t? (V. 122,121; 0,30,28), Rockhampton. Museum Godeffroy. 



$ (V. 131; 0. 22), & hgr. 



(V. 129; 0.20). 

 e-ff, h. d (V. 125 ; 0. 29) & J Rockhampton. 



(V. 126, 129, 134 ; 0. 21, 22, 



20). 

 i. Skull of a, 



Hoplocephalux ornatus, De Vis, Proc. R. Soo. Queensl. i. 1884, 

 p. 100, pi. XV., appears to agree in all structural characters with 

 the preceding species, but the body is barred by about 50 dark 

 cross-bands with irregular edges ; below the cross-bands, alternating 

 angular blotches. 



Near Surat, Queensland. 



13. Denisonia punctata. (Plate XVIII. fig. 4.) 



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

 broad as deep, visible from above ; internasals two thirds the length 

 of the praefrontals ; frontal once and three fourths as long as broad, 

 acutely angular behind, twice as broad as the supraocular, longer 

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

 parietals ; nasal entire, in contact with the single prseocular ; two 

 postoculars ; temporals 2-\-'2, lower anterior wedged in between the 

 fifth and sixth labials ; six upper labials, third aud fourth entering 

 the eye ; three lower labials in contact with the anterior chin- 



