342 ■ coLTjBKir^. • 



shields, which, are shorter than the posterior. Scales in 15 rows. 

 Ventrals 160 ; anal entire ; suhcaudals 25. Pale brown above, 

 each scale with a dark brown spot ; head and nape orange, with 

 blackish-brown symmetrical markings ; a blackish streak on each 

 side of the head, passing through the eye, and terminating on the 

 anterior temporals ; upper lip and lower parts yellowish white. 



Total length 350 millim. ; taU 36. 



North-western Australia. 



«. ? (V. 160; 0. 26). Port Walcott. Capt. Beckett [0.]. 



14. Denisonia gouldii. 



Elaps gouldii, Gray, in Qrey^s Trav. Austral, ii. p. 444, pi. v. fig. 1 



(1841). 

 Hoploeephalus gouldii, Giinth. Cat. p. 215 (1858) ; Krefft, Proc. 



Zool. Soc. 1866, p. 370, and Sn. Austral, p. 60, pi. xii. fig. 2 (1869). 

 Alecto gouldii, Jan, Bev. Sf Mag. Zool. 1869, p. 128, and Icon. Gen. 



44, pi. i. fig. 5 (1873). 

 Hoploeephalus nigricepa, Giinth. Ann. 8f Mag. N. H. (3) xii. 1863, 



p. 362 ; Krefft, iSn. Austral, p. 68, pi. xii. fig. 7. 

 spectabilis, Krefft, I. c. p. 61, pi. xii. fig. 4. 



Eye as long as or a little longer than its distance from the mouth. 

 Eostral twice as broad as deep, visible from above ; intern asals at 

 least two thirds as long as the prsefrontals ; frontal a little longer 

 than broad, at least twice as broad as the supraocular, as long as or 

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

 than the parietals ; nasal entire, in contact with the single prse- 

 ocular ; two postoculars ; temporals 2 + 2, lower anterior wedged in 

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

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

 with the anterior chin-shields, which are as long as or a little 

 shorter than the posterior. Scales in 15 rows. Ventrals 140-170 ; 

 anal entire ; suhcaudals 22-33. Yellow to brown above ; head 

 and nape black, or black and yellow above ; upper lip and lower 

 parts yellowish. 



Total length 435 millim. ; tail 50. 



Western and Southern Australia, 



A. Yellowish above, scales edged with brown. (E. gouldii, Grray.) 



c. 2 (V. 162 ; 0. 30). W. Australia. Sir G. Grey [P.]. 



(Type.) 

 b-c. d (V. 170 ; C. 33) Swan R. Sir A. Smith [P.]. 



&?(V.163;C. 31). 



d. ? (V. 161: C. 31). SwanR. 



e. cJ (V. 147 ; 0. 33). Flinders Range, G. Krefft, Esq. [P.]. 



S. Australia. 

 /. 2 ("V- 162 ; 0. 22). Port Lincoln, G. Kreff't, Esq. [P.]. 



S. Australia. 

 ff. c? (V. 143 i C. 28). S. Australia. Prof. Stirling [P.]. 



'h-i. 2 (V. 140 ; C. 26) Australia. 

 & yg. (V. 146 ; 0. 

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