HORN EXPEDITION—KEPTILIA. 
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(5) Purina, D. and B. 
Purina ranisayi, Macleay. 
Two specimens of this handsome snake were collected. In structure they 
agree well with Macleay’s description of the type. Colour. —Deep salmon colour, 
or brownish-red above, with live narrow, widely separated grey bands ; upper- 
surface of head dark grey, a narrow pale yellow band across the occiput followed 
by a broad black band; rostral, and a spot in front of the eye yellow, under¬ 
surfaces pale yellow. 
Localities. —Crown Point, Horse Shoe Bend, Finke River. 
Distribution. —Milparinka.—(Macleay). 
Verm ice I la. Gray. 
(6) Vermicella annulata, Gray. 
One young individual four and a half inches long. The ground colour is 
bright orange, and the rings polished jet-black. 
Locality. —Crown Point, Finke River, burrowing in sand. 
Distribution. —All Australia. 
Hoplocephalus, Cuv. 
(7) LLoplocephalus stirlingi, sp. n. (Plate XII., Fig. 5). 
Description. —Head Hat, with broadly-rounded snout. Rostral broad and low, 
just visible from above; internasals broader than long ; prtefrontals broader thaU 
long, bent down on the sides, in contact with the second labial; frontal about one- 
third longer than broad, as long as its distance from the rostral, shorter than the 
parietals; supraoculars rather narrow, about half the width of the frontal; eye 
rather small, prominent; one anterior and two posterior oculars; temporals, 1 -f 2 ; 
six upper labials, third and fourth entering the eye. Scales in nineteen rows. 
Ventrals, 158-176; anal, entire; subcaudals, 31-35. 
Colour. —Uniform bright-brown to greyish-brown above; upper surface of 
head much darker, becoming almost black where it ends on the back of the head ; 
upper labials, rostral, and sometimes a line from the temple’ through the eye to 
nostril, pale yellow; under surfaces whitish or yellowish; total length, 522 mm.; 
tail, 70 mm. 
Locality. —Charlotte Waters, Oodnadatta, Alice Springs, Hermansburg. The 
specific name is associated with that of Dr. E. C. Stirling, a member of the Expedition. 
