ANNALS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM, No. 6 5L 
Denisonia angulata n.s. 
Between the genera Denisonia and Hoplocephalus the difference 
consists in the number of scale-rows and in the rounded or angular 
condition of the sides of the ventrals. In the present snake the 
scale rows are as in Denisonia, the ventrals as in Hoplocephalus. 
Eye longer than its distance from the mouth, pupil round ; 
muzzle short, rounded ; rostral nearly twice as broad as long, 
just visible on upper surface ; internasals much shorter than 
prefrontals ; nasal divided, in touch with preocular, oblong ; frontal 
one and a-half times as long as broad, as long as its distance from 
the tip of the snout, shorter than the parietals, much broader 
than the supraoculars ; one pre- and two postoculars ; temporals 
2+2, lower anterior as suual ; six upper labials, third and fourth 
entering orbit ; three lower labials in touch with anterior chin 
shield, which is much the larger of the two ; anal entire ; scale 
rows round body, 17 ; ventrals, 186 ; distinctly angulated ; sub- 
caudals, 46, in one row. Brown, a bipinniform yellow nuchal 
collar, narrowly black edged anteriorly, posteriorly broader and 
ill defined ; a black temporolabial V-shaped mark ; lips black barred ; 
throat black spotted and streaked ; beneath paler ; ventrals with 
dark edges. One example in al. Habitat, Queensland. 
Denisonia frontalis Ogil — variety propinqua. 
In so close propinquity with Mr. D. Ogilby's D. frontalis, 
that, notwithstanding a large eye, longer and squarer head, and 
different colouration, it is safer to refer it to that species. 
Eye longer than its distance from the mouth, pupil elliptic, 
erect ; muzzle rather long, subquadrate ; rostral twice as broad 
as long, appearing on the upper surface ; nasal entire, oblong, 
removed from preocular ; internasals (semifused with prefrontals) 
apparently nearly as large as prefrontals ; frontal a third longer 
than broad, shorter than parietals, less than its own length from 
the tip of the snout, twice as broad as the supraoculars ; one pre- 
and two postoculars ; temporals 2+2, lower anterior as usual ; 
six upper labials, third and fourth entering orbit ; three lower 
labials in touch with anterior chin shield, which is about as large 
as the posterior ; anal entire. Scale rows round the body, 19 ; 
ventrals, 161 ; subcaudals, 30, in one row. Head and nape above 
pale brown, relieved by a white band edged with dark brown, 
passing from the posterior temporals over the orbit to the end of 
the nasal, and by a white upper lip inclusive of the lower part of 
the rostral ; dorsum nearly white, the scales edged with pale brown ; 
below white, immaculate. One example in al. Habitat, Queensland. 
Furina robusta n.s. 
Habit comparatively short and stout ; head slightly distinct ; 
eye about twice its diameter from the mouth ; rostral more 
than twice as broad as deep, viewed from above about as long as 
