RECORDS OF P/.A. MUSEUM. 
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Localities. — D. modesta, Gunther, is recorded from the follow- 
ing localities : — Perth ; the North-West (types, Gunther, 1872, and 
Bonlenger, 1896) ; Geraldton (Boulenger, i8g6), Milparinka, Bar- 
rier Range, Western N.S.W. (types of Purina ramsayi, Macleay, 
Austr. Mus.) ; Crown Point, Horse Shoe Bend, Finke River, 
Central Australia (Lucas and Frost, 1896); Norman River, North 
Queensland (types of Bfachysoma sutherlandi, de Vis, 1884, Q’land. 
Mus.) ; Lawlers and Boulder, W.A. (Austr. Mus,). 
DEMANSIA TEXTILIS, D. & B. 
Dieinmia textilis, Boulenger, Cat. Sn. Brit, Mus,, III., 1896, p. 325, 
Although there are several mentions of D, textilis occurring all 
over Australia, I know of no authentic record of its occurrence in 
Western Australia. Krefft ^ gives “ Australia generally ” as the 
habitat of Diemenia superciliosa, as it was then called. Again he 
says, — “ A species which . . . ranges from the East to the West 
Coast, and perhaps extends all over the whole continent.” Speak- 
ing of D. nuchalis, Waite ® is of the opinion that “ it is possible that 
the Brown Snakes {D. textiUs) recorded from Western Australia are 
referable to this species.” 
DEMANSIA AFFINIS, Gunther. 
Plate XXVII, Fig. 4, and Text Fig. 6a. 
Pscudonajaaffinis, Giinther, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (4), IX, 1872, p. 35, pi. IV, fig. C. 
,, ,, Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soo. N.S.W., II, 1878, p. 29. 
,, ,, Lucas and Frost, Kept. “ Horn " Sci. Expdn., H, 1896, p. 148, 
Diemenia michaUs (part), Boulenger, Cat. Sn. Brit, Mus., HI, 1896, p. 326. 
Head broad ; snout not truncate but broadly rounded. Eye 
moderate. Rostral broader than deep, the portion visible from 
above almost as long as its distance from the frontal ; internasals 
two-thirds to four-fifths the length of the praefrontals ; frontal 
broader than the supraocular, once and a half as long as broad two- 
thirds the length of the parietals ; nasal entire or semi-divided. 
Two or three postoculars; temporals i -f- 2. Six upper labials, last 
very large, third and fourth entering the eye. Scales in seventeen 
to twenty-one rows. V. 215-225. S.c. 52-63 pairs. 
1 Krefft — Austr. Vertebr., Foss, and Recent, Sydney, Feb. 1871, p. 54. 
■I Krefft — Vertebr. Lower Murray, 1865, p. 31. 
3 Waite — Australian Snakes, i8g8, p. 51. 
