230. EHTNOHBLAPS. 363 



a. Yg. (V. 118 ; C. 22). Adelaide. Rev. T. E. Lea fP.!. 



*. S (V. 119 ; 0. 15). Swan R. Sir A. Smith [P.]. 



c-d. d (V. 121 ; 0. 2.3) & Swan R. 

 $ (V. 126 ; 0. 16). 



e. $ (V. 116 ; 0. 20). Perth. Mr. Duboulay [C.l. 



f. Yg. (V. 120; C. 19). G6raldton,W.Aus- Mr. E. H. Saunders 



tralia. [0.1. 



ff-i S (V. 117, 120; 0. 21, Australia. 



24)&h^r. (V.117;C.21). 

 k. SkuU of d. 



2. Rhynchelaps australis. 



Simotes australis, Krefft, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1864, p. 180. 

 Brachyurophis australis, Giinfh. Ann. ^ Mag. N. H. (3) xv. 1865, 



p. 97, and (4) ix. 1872, p. 33; Krefft, 8n. Austral, p. 52, pi. xi. 



lig. 3 (1869). 



Snout very prominent, obtusely pointed, with sharp horizontal 

 edge. Eye a little shorter than its distance from the mouth. 

 Rostral as deep as broad, its upper portion forming an acute angle 

 behind and longer than its distance from the frontal ; internasals 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, as long as the parietals ; nasal elongate, in contact with 

 the praeocular, which is widely separated from the frontal; two 

 postoculars ; temporals 1 + 1 ; six upper labials, third and fourth 

 entering the eye ; three lower labials in contact with the anterior 

 chin-shields, which are very small ; posterior chin-shields indistinct. 

 Scales in 17 rows. Ventrals 152-163; anal divided ; subcaudals 

 18-20. Red above, with ill-defined cross-bars formed of yellowish, 

 black-edged scales ; a blackish cross-band on the head, involving the 

 eyes, and another on the nape ; snout and occiput yellowish ; lower 

 parts whitish. 



Total length 290 millim. ; tail 25. 



Queensland. 



a. 2 (V. 152 ; C. 20). Clarence R. G. Krefft, Esq. [P.]. 



3. Ehynchelaps semifasciatus. 



Brachyurophis semifasciata, Giinth. Ann. 8r Mag. N. H. (3) xi. 



1863, p. 21, pi. iii. %. B, and xv. 1865, p. 97. 

 Pseudoelaps rhinostomus, Jan, Icon. Oen. 43, pi. vi. fig. 1 (1873). 

 Furina rhinostoma, F. Miill. Verh. Nat. Ges. Basel, vii. 1865, 



p. 692. 



Snout very prominent, obtusely pointed, with sharp horizontal 

 edge. Eye measuring about two thirds its distance from the 

 mouth. Rostral as deep as broad, its upper portion forming an 

 acute angle behind and longer than its distance from the frontal ; 

 internasals as long as or shorter than the prsefrontals ; frontal as 

 long as broad, at least thrice as broad as the supraocular, as long as 



