22 ANNALS OF TEE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 
labial, the anterior greatly enlarged, twice as large as the posterior, 
in contact with three lower labials. Scales in 21 rows, all carinated ; 
ventrals 216, subcaudals 52 ; anal entire. Rather pale rufous brown; 
upper edge of rostral, hinder edge of prefrontals, two spots in the 
sulcus of the frontal, an inverted V-shaped bar from posterior 
angle of frontal to the last upper labial on each side, a bar 
from the side of the frontal to the penultimate upper labial, bars 
edging the other upper labials, a vertebral line beginning in lanceo- 
late form within the A an d partially broken up into lenticular 
blotches, and 62 irregular shaped vertical bars with white edges on 
the sides, all these markings black ; beneath white, the ventrals 
with more or less broad dark edges and two rows of quadrangular 
dark spots on their sides. Total length 360 mm.; tail 48 mm. 
Loc. : Darro, Darling Downs. 
Presented by Dr. T. L. Bancroft. 
DENISONIA EEVELATA, n.s. 
Eye moderately large, its least diameter greater than its dis- 
tance from the mouth ; pupil broadly elliptical, erect ; rostral broader 
than long, its posterior edges quadrilateral, its upper surface visible 
from above, and nearly as long as the internasals ; internasals two- 
thirds as long as the prefrontals ; frontals rather more than half as 
long again as broad, its suture with the prefrontals a straight line — 
twice as broad as the supraoculars, longer than its distance from 
the end of the snout ; nasal entire in contact with the preocular, 
orifice in an oblique groove ; oculars 1-2 ; temporals 1-2 ; the lower 
posterior small, with its lower angle inserted between the fifth and 
sixth upper labials ; upper labials six, the third and fourth entering 
the orbital ring; three lower labials in contact with the anterior 
chin shield, which is as long as the posterior. Scales round the body 
in 19 rows ; anal entire ; ventrals 206, distinctly angulated and 
faintly emarginate above the angle ; subcaudals 50, in one row. 
Tail one-seventh of the total length. 
Body uniform blackish brown above, smoky brown beneath ; 
nape and spots on lips and temporals white; head above pale brown ; 
rostral, nasal, and hinder half of prefrontals black ; a black blotch 
on the supraorbital adjacent to the frontal, continuous with another 
expanding on the middle of the parietals, forms with its fellow two 
