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Zoological Miscellany, 
nearly flat, covered with small keeled scales ; eyebrows keeled : back co- 
vered with keeled rhombic scales t limbs, tail, chest and belly with larger 
keeled rhombic scales, all placed in longitudinal series : back slightly keel- 
ed on each side ; nape with a very obscure keel ; tail elongate, tapering, 
subangular : femoral pores none ; 1 preanal pore on the side, near the base 
of the lower side of the thigh. 
This differs from Gramynatophora in only having 2 preanal pores ; in 
form it is intermediate between that genus and Calotes. 
Diporiphora bilineata. Pale brown, in spirits, with black spots forming 
7 cross bands on the body and black rings on the tail ; a narrow streak 
on each side of the neck and front of the body, and a few scales in cross 
series on the sides of the body, yellow : throat grey ; chest, belly and under 
side of limbs and base of tail, yellow ; feet pale : a group of 2 or 3 small 
conical spines in front, one over the top and one or two on the parotid be- 
hind the ear. 
Inhabits North coast of New Holland ; Port Essington, Mr. Gilbert. 
Tropidonotus australis. Dark brown, in spirits ; upper lip and beneath 
whitish; the hinder edge of the ventral and of the subcaudal plates olive, 
clouded, especially on the sides ; the dorsal scales ovate, strongly keeled ; 
the side one broader, less keeled, the lowest series very broad, rhombic : 
tail tapering : back 7-keeled ; loreal shield square : anterior ocular high, 
band-like, 3 posterior subequal, small : throat shielded ; chin-shields 2 
pair, long. Length of body and head 17, tail 6, = 23 inches. 
Inhabits North coast of New Holland ; Port Essington. 
Lycodon reticulatus. Demansia reticulata^ Gray MSS. B. M. (1836) 
Pale yellow, in spirits ; edges and interspaces between the scales of the 
back black ; head and hinder part of the body and tail above, uniform pale 
yellowish olive : anterior frontal small, posterior nasal elongate, narrow, 
small : loreal none : anterior ocular 1 large, 2 posterior, small : temples 
shielded : eyes large, pupil round. 
Inhabits Australia ; Mr. Buchanan. Brit. Mus. 
Lycodon olivaceus. Dark olive green, in spirits ; interspaces between 
the scales blackish : tail paler : lips and beneath white ; scales of the throat 
olive-edged ; the front ventral shields with a transverse central band : 
cheeks with a dark streak from the back of the eye to the gape : anterior 
frontal small, vertebral plates elongate ; loreal shield none ; 1 high anterior 
and 2 posterior oculars ; temple scaly. 
Inhabits North Coast of Australia ; Port Essington, Mr. Gilbert. 
Dendrophis ( Ahetula ) fusca. Pale brown, in spirits ; back with nu- 
merous broad, darker brown, cross bands ; head uniform brown : scales of 
the vertebral series very large, broad, 6-sided, of the sides lanceolate, nu- 
merous, in very oblique series : ventral shields very obscurely keeled on the 
sides : loreal shield square ; 1 anterior high and 2 small posterior ocular 
shields : pupil round : vertebral plate broad, tapering behind : occipital 
plates large. 
Inhabits North coast of New Holland ; Port Essington. 
Dendrophis ( Ahetula ) olivacea. Pale unifomi olive brown, in spirits ; 
lips and beneath silvery yellow : scales of the vertebral series large, broad, 
three-sided in front and rounded behind ; of the sides of the back narrow, 
elongate, in transverse series (5 in each), next the ventral plates broad, lo- 
