239. PTJEiNA. 407 



the frontal, supraocular, and parietals, and a broad cross-bar on the 

 nape, black ; lower parts wMte. 



Total length 330 millim. ; tail 25. 



W. Australia. 



a. d (V. 181 ; 0. 25). W. Australia. 



6. $ (V. 191 ; C. 21). Australia. 



2. Farina calonota. 



Furina calonotos, Dum. Sr Bibr. vii. p. 1341, pi. Ixxv b. (1854) ; Jan, 



Rev. ^ Mag.'Zool. 1859, p. 125, pi. vi. ; Krefft, Sn. Austral, p. 50 



(1869). 

 Brachysoma calonotos, GfUnth. Cat. p. 229 (1858). 

 Neelaps calonotus, Oiinth. Ann. 8^ Mag. N. H. (3) xi. 1863, p. 24, 



and XV. 1865, p. 97. 

 Pseudelaps calonotus, Jan, Eleneo, p. 116 (1863), and Icon. 04n. 43, 



pi. V. fig. 3 (1873). 



Rostral moderately large, broader than deep, its upper portion 

 shorter than its distance from the frontal ; internasals shorter than 

 the praefrontals ; frontal a little longer than broad, nearly thrice as 

 broad as the supraocular, as long as its distance from the end of the 

 snout, shorter than the parietals ; nasal elongate, in contact with 

 the praeocular; latter reaching or nearly reaching the frontal; 

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

 fourth entering the eye ; a pair of small chin-shields. Scales in 

 15 rows. Ventrals 126-131 ; anal divided ; subcaudals 29-30. 

 Yellowish, with a black vertebral stripe, each scale on which bears 

 a white dot; a bar across the end of the snout, a large blotch 

 covering the frontal, supraocular, and parietals, and a black cross- 

 band on the nape, black ; lower parts white. 



Total length 215 millim. ; tail 33. 



W. Australia. 



a. <S (V. 131 ; C. 30). W. Australia ? • 



3. Purina occipitalis. 



White, Joum. Voy. N. S. Wales, p. 259, pi. — . fig. 2 (1790). 

 Elaps occipitalis, Bum. ^ Bibr. vii. p. 1220 (1854) ; Jan, Bev. ^ 



Mag. Zool. 1858, p. 518, and Icon. Gin. 43, pi. ii. fig. 4 (1873). 

 Vermicella annulata, Giinth. Cat. p. 236 (1858) ; Krefft, Sn. Austral. 



p. 78, pi. xi. fig. 12 (1869) ; McCoy, Prodr. Zool. Vict., Dec. 6, 



p. 11, pi. lii. (1881). 



occipitalis, Giinth. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1859, p. 87, pi. xvu. fig. B. 



lun\flata, Krefft, I. c. p. 79, pi. xii. fig. 14. 



Eostral moderately large, broader than deep, its upper portion 

 shorter than its distance from the frontal ; internasals much 

 shorter than the praefrontals t ; frontal once and one third to once 



* The specimen was purchased as from Baranquilla, Colombia, together with 

 a specimen of the W- Australian Ehynchelaps semifasciatus. 



t In two Bpeoimens, the internasal on each side is fused with the prsefrontaU 



