223. NoiECHis. 351 



in contact with the single praeocular; temporals 1+2 or 2 + 2, 

 the lower anterior, if not converted into a labial, wedged in 

 between the fifth and sixth upper labials ; six or seven upper 

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

 in contact with the anterior chin-shields, which are shorter than 

 the posterior. Scales in 23 rows, strongly keeled, outer smooth. 

 Veutrals 165-171 ; anal entire ; subcaudals 52-54. Dark olive 

 above, with darker cross-bands, which may be broken up on the, 

 vertebral line ; yellowish below, more or less obscured with olive. 



Total length 730 millim. ; tail 120. 



New South Wales ; Queensland. 



a. ? (V. 171 ; C. 52). Clarence River. G, Krefft, Esq. [P.]. 



(One of the types.) 



223. NOTECHIS. 



Alecto {non Wagl.), part., Dum. ^ Bibr, Erp. Gin. vii. p. 1249 



(18.'54) ; Jan, JElenco sist. Ofid. p. 116 (1863). 

 Hoplocephalus, part., Giinth. Cat. Col. Sn. p. 213 (1858) ; Krefft, Sn, 



Austral, p. 63 (1869). 



Maxillary extending forwards as far as the palatine, with a pair 

 of large grooved poison-fangs followed by four or five small, feebly 

 grooved teeth ; mandibular teeth, anterior longest and feebly 

 grooved. Head distinct from neck, with distinct canthus rostralis ; 

 eye rather small, with round pupil ; nasal entire ; no loreal. Body 

 cylindrical ; scales smooth, without pits, disposed obliquely, in 15 

 to 19 rows, the lateral scales shorter than the dorsals ; belly rounded. 

 TaU. moderate ; subcaudals single. 



Australia and Tasmania. 



1, NotecMs scutatus. 



P Boa leevis, LacSp. Ann. du Mus. iv. 1804, p. 209. 



Alecto curta {non ScMeg.), part., Bum. 8r Bibr. vii. p. 1252 (1854). 



Hoplocephalus curtus, Oiinth. Cat. p. 216 (1858) ; Krefft, Sn. Austral. 



pT53, pi. ix. & pi. xi. fig. 6 (1869) ; McCoy, Pi-odr. Zool. Vict., 



Dec. 1, p. 11, pi. iii. (1878). 

 Naja (Hamadryas) scutata, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1861, p. 690. 

 Hoplocephalus fuacus, Steind. Novara, Eept. p. 82 (1867). 

 1 ater, Krefft, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1866, p. 373 (1867), and I.e. 



p. 65, pi. xi. fig. 11. 

 Alecto fasciolata, Jan, Icon. GSn. 43, pi. vi. fig. 4 (1873). 



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

 in the adult, larger in the young. Eostral a little broader than 

 deep, the portion visible from above measuring one third to one half 

 its distance from the frontal ; frontal as long as broad or longer than 

 broad, not more than once and a half as long as broad, once and a 

 half to twice as broad as the supraocular, as long as its distance from 

 the rostral or the end of the snout, one half to two thirds the length 

 of the parietals ; nasal in contact with the single praeocular ; two 

 postoculars ; temporals 2 + 2, lower anterior very large and wedged 

 in between the fifth and sixth upper labials and sometimes nearly 



