8 EINAR LÖNNBERG AND L. G. ANDERSSON, DR. E. MJÖBERGS EXPEDITIONS TO AUSTRALIA. 7. REPTILES. 
Tropidonotus picturatus ScHLEGEL. One small specimen from Atherton, 
Queensland. 
Chersydrus granulatus ScHNEIDER. — ÅA fine specimen from Cairns, N. Queens- 
land. In spite of the wide distribution of this snake it does not appear to have 
been recorded from Australia before. 
This specimen has 60 light crossbands around the body, which, however, are 
partly obsolete on the back. 
Dendrophis punctulatus Gray. One specimen from Cairns, Queensland. 
This specimen has no dark band on the side of the head, but it differs from 
the typical D. punctulatus in having the frontal not longer than its distance from 
the rostral. With regard to this characteristic it thus agrees with D. calligaster, 
which, however, shall have a black streak on the side of the head. 
The present specimen has 206 ventrals and 125 subeaudals, thus in both 
instances a number which both species mentioned may possess. 
The temporals of the present specimen are 2+)2, the upper of the anterior 
pair being quite small on both sides. ”The lower is long but not very narrow. 
It appears thus very difficult to decide, whether this specimen ought to be 
referred to D. punctulatus, or to D. calligaster, if these really are to be distinguished 
from each other. Against the latter speaks also the fact that a specimen from Syd- 
ney in this Museum has a very long and narrow anterior temporal and no black 
streak on the sides of the head like »punctulatus», but a short frontal, not longer 
than its distance from the mnostral like »calligaster>. In this uncertainty we have 
chosen to use the older name, which probably ought to comprise both forms. 
Hypsirhina polylepis FiscHEr. One specimen from Cairns, Northern Queens- 
land, agrees with the description in Cat. Snakes B. M. as well with regard to the 
lepidosis as to the colour pattern except in the following points. There is a tri- 
angular azygous shield intercalated between the prefrontals. This is no doubt to 
be regarded as an individual anomaly in spite of its symmetrical appearance. The 
number of ventral shields is somewhat larger viz. 155 than that recorded in Cat. 
Snakes B. M. (137—146), but the number of subceaudals is one less viz. 38. These 
discrepancies are, however, not so great that they can prove a geographic race. 
The greatest interest connected with this specimen is that it gives a new instance 
of the distribution of the Papuan fauna to Northern Queensland, as this snake was 
hitherto known from Fly River, New Guinea. 
Dipsadomorphus fuscus Gray. One specimen from Cairns, Queensland. 
Pseudelaps harriette KrReEFrFfT. One specimen from Malanda, Queensland, Febr. 
1913. Ventrals 164, subceaudals 37. Nasal rather broadly separated from the pre- 
ocular, because the prefrontal is broadly in contact with the second labial. 
