225. BEACHTASPIS. 353 



1. Bhinhoploceplialus bicolor. 



Ehiuoplocephalus bicolor, F. Mu'l. I. c. pi. ix. Hgs.f-i. 



Snout broad, truncate ; eye a little shorter than its distance from 

 the mouth. Upper portion of rostral subquadrangular, nearly twice 

 as broad as long, as long as the prsefrontals ; frontal a little longer 

 than broad, twice as broad as the supraocular, as long as its distance 

 from the end of the snout, shorter than the parietala ; nasal in 

 contact with the lower praeoeular ; two praeoculars, upper small ; 

 two postoculars ; temporals 1 + 2 ; six upper labials, third and 

 fourth entering the eye ; four lower labials in contact with the 

 anterior chin-shields, which are a little longer than the posterior. 

 Scales in 15 rows. Ventrals 159 ; anal entire ; subeaudals 34. 

 Greyish olive above, lateral scales dark-edged ; yellowish white 

 beneath ; tongue white. 



Total length 395 millim. ; tail 55. 



Australia. 



225. BRACHYASPIS. 



Naja, part., Schleff. Phys. Serp. ii. p. 461 (1837). 

 Hoplocephalus, part., Giinth. Cat. Col. 8n. p. 213 (18.58). 



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

 of large grooved poison-fangs followed by two or three small teeth ; 

 anterior mandibular teeth strongly enlarged, fang-like. Head dis- 

 tinct from neck ; eye small, with vertically elliptic pupil ; nostril 

 between two nasals ; no loreal. Body stout, cjdindrical ; scales 

 smooth, without pits, slightly oblique, in 19 rows ; belly rounded. 

 Tail short ; subeaudals single. 



Australia. 



1. Brachyaspis curta. 



Naja curta, Schleg. Phys. Serp. ii. p. 486 (1837), and Abbild. p, 140, 



pi. xlviii. figs. 19 & 20 (1844). 

 Hoplocephalus curtiis, part., Giinth. Cat. p. 216 (1858). 

 temporalis, Giinth. Ann. Sf Mag. N. H. (3) ix. 1862, p. 130, 



pi. ix. fig. 11 ; Krefft, 8n. Austral, p. 65, pi. vi. fig. 5 (1869). 



Eye scarcely longer than its distance from the mouth. Eostral a 

 little broader than deep, just visible from above ; internasals shorter 

 than the prsefrontals ; frontal once and a half to twice as long as 

 broad, broader than the supraocular, as long as or longer than its 

 distance from the end of the snout, as long as or a little shorter than 

 parietals ; nasal in contact with or narrowly separated from the 

 single praeoeular ; two postoculars ; temporals 2 -|- 4 or 3 -|- 3, ; 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 19 rows. Ventrals 128-136 ; 

 anal entire ; subeaudals 30-35. Uniform olive-brown above, 

 yellowish beneath. 



Total length 490 millim. ; tail 70. 



Western Australia. 

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