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MEMOmS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM.. 
AIPySURUS EYDOUXII, Gray. 
On the coast near Bundaherg, Mr. L. 11. Jlaynard, honorary collector, 
secured a sea-snake which corresponds very closely with the description of the 
above species and differs markedly from the normal form of A. Imvis, Lacep. On 
looking through our Queensland series of A. Iwvis ( which is frequently met with 
on the coast), another specimen answering to A. eydouxii was found. Although 
somewhat variable in lepidosLs and evidently closely allied, these snakes are 
readily separable, so far as our specimens are concerned, on the points noted by 
Boulenger.’ This is apparently the first record of -1. eydouxii for the Australian 
coast. 
DIPSADOMORPHUS FUSCUS, Gray. 
(Plate XV.) 
In J anuary last the Queensland Museum received a very handsome specimen 
of our Brown Tree Snake from Ormiston, the donor being Miss Morris. The snake 
was secured alive in a canary cage, it having made a meal of the rightful occupant 
during the night. The wires just permitted the snake to enter, but, as frequently 
happens, the postprandial diameter proved too great to permit of exit. The 
photograph shown (Plate XV) depicts the snake in a characteristically bellicose 
attitude. 
ACALYPTOPHIS PERONII, D. and B. 
The Queensland Museum possesses a solitary specimen of this rare snake, 
the locality of collection being Cape York. 
LIASIS CHILDRENI, Gray. 
This constricting snake has been looked upon as an inhabitant solely of 
the northern parts of Australia, its most southerly point in oui* records being 
Port Denison. Somewhat to our surprise, a specimen was received in July last 
which had been obtained in the Brisbane district, the donor stating that another 
snake, apparently of the same kind, had been previously killed near by. It is 
of course possible, though rather unlikely, tliat this snake had been artificially 
transported to South Queensland, and thus its extended habit is noted with 
diffidence. Our specimen agrees with those recorded by Lucas and Frost from 
the Central and Northern districts in having but thirty-eight rows of scales." 
LIZARDS. 
DIPLODACTYLUS HILLH, sp. nov. 
Head high, convex; snout pointed, almost as long as the distance between 
the anterior border of the eye and the small ear-opening; mental projecting 
oeyond the rostral ; canthus rostralis obtusely defined ; loreal region slightly 
' Bonlenger, B. M. C. Snakes, iii, 1896, p. 304. 
' Lucas and Frost, Horn Expedition, ii, p. 146. 
