AUSTRALIAN SNAKES. 
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eyes small, pupil round. There is an indistinct small yellow spot behind 
the upper part of the eye; hut this may he an accidental variety, as the 
spots on the two sides are not equally defined. 
A single specimen in the Museum collection, probably from South 
Australia. Capt. (now Sir George) Grey discovered the species on the 
West Coast. 
Port Lincoln Snake. Hop locep ha his spectabilis. 
(Plate XII, fig. 4.) 
Hoplocephalus gouldii, var. Krefft , Proc. Zool. Soc., 26 June, 1866. 
Scales in 15 rows. 
Abdominal plates, 148 or more. 
One anal plate. 
Total length, 12 inches. 
Head, ■§ inch. 
Tail, If inch. 
This species has been considered to be a variety of Hoplo- 
cephalus gouldii ; this is not so, however, as the following description will 
show:— 
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Head depressed, scarcely distinct from trunk; vertical five-sided, 
with acute angle behind; occipitals large, not much forked; anterior 
frontals triangular;' posterior frontals quadrangular, somewhat larger 
than the former. Six upper and six lower labial scales, smooth, rather 
short, six-sided, lighter on the outer'margin. 
Greyish brown above, yellowish white below ; the marks upon the 
head vary in different individuals ; rostral, nasal, and anterior part of first 
pair of frontals marked with black; remaining portion of anterior frontals 
and whole of posterior ones reddish, after which another black patch covers 
the vertical, superciliaries and part of the occipitals; pupil subelliptical, 
erect; a third black spot covers the nape of the neck, about four scales 
wide, hut not reaching to the sides. In some of the specimens the second 
black patch is continuous, leaving only the tips of the occipitals and the 
scale between them reddish. 
Habitat, Port Lincoln, South Australia. Discovered by Mr. G. 
Masters. 
