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zenge-shaped; the ventral shields distinctly keeled on each side: head elon- 
gate ; pupil round ; eye large : loreal shield narrow, elongate ; 1 high an- 
terior and 1 narrow posterior ocular shields. Young : tail with a slate- 
coloured central streak beneath. 
Inhabits North coast of New Holland; Port Essington. 
Ela'ps ornatus^ Gray. Whitish, in spirits ; scales of the hack and sides 
hexagonal, smooth, beautifully black-edged: lips and beneath white ; head 
to the end of the occipital shields, and a broad band on the nape, black ; 
the head flattened ; eyes small, superior, pupil round, small : rostral 
low; the anterior frontal subtriangular, the hinder nearly square, bent 
down on the sides ; the hinder nasal scales very small, trigonal ; loreal 
shield none ; 1 superior anterior ocular and 2 posterior : tail elongate, 
tapering, with 2 large series of scales on the upper part of its base. 
Inhabits Australia, (Swan River ?) ; W. Buchanan, Esq. 
Naja australis. Uniform pale brown, in spirits, rather paler below : 
anterior ocular short, broad, triangular, 2 posterior oculars square. 
Inhabits North coast of New Holland ; Port Essington. 
This scarcely differs from N. Hage of Africa, except in having only 2 
posterior ocular plates, and this may be only accidental in the individual. 
Morelia variegata, Gray, ‘ Synopsis of Boidas,’ p. 43. Head-shields small, 
numerous, with a 6-sided, central, larger vertebral : frontal plates 3 pairs, 
small, front triangular ; 3 front upper labial shields pitted, hinder one ob- 
scurely so ; front lower shields elongate, narrow. 
Inhabits Australia ; Port Essington. 
Nardoa Gilherti^ Gray, ‘ Synopsis of Boidae,’ v.p. 45. 
Inhabits the North Coast of New Holland ; Mr. Gilbert. 
Liasis olivacea^ Gray, ‘ Synopsis of Boidae,’ v. p. 45. 
Inhabits the North Coast of Australia ; Port Essington, Mr. Gilbert. 
Asturia elegans, Gray, ‘ Synopsis of Hydridae,’ p. 
Inhabits the North coast of New Holland; Port Essington, Mr. Gilbert. 
Homolopsis australis^ Gray, ‘ Synopsis of Hydridae,’ p. 
Inhabits the North coast of New Holland ; Port Essington, Mr. Gilbert. 
Hgdraspis Victorice, Gray. Shell ovate, convex, blackish brown marbled 
with grey and rather rugose above, beneath convex, yellow olive, with 
slight, impressed, narrow, netted grooves : vertebral plates nearly square, as 
long as broad, the fourth 6-sided, elongate; the marginal plates rather nar- 
row in front, broader and slightly bent upon the sides, dilated, rather pro- 
duced, and leaving 2 or 3 notches over the tail behind ; the sternum narrow, 
rather convex, shelving on the sides, and with a broad rounded notch behind. 
The back is regularly convex : the front cavity is much contracted by two 
rather diverging septa, only leaving a space almost half the width of the 
outer opening ; the sternum is only about one third the width of the lower 
surface in the middle, and rather tapering behind : the vertebral column is 
sharply keeled within, and the bones of the pelvis are very strong : the first 
and second marginal plates are rather broad, the third narrow, the fourth 
and rest broader ; the middle of the fourth and eleventh is opposite the su- 
ture between the costal plate. 
Inhabits Victoria River, North-west coast of New Holland; Captain 
William Campbell, R.N. 
