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AUSTRALIAN SNAKES. 
Crowned Snake. Hoplocephalus coronatus. 
(Plate YI, fig. 3.) 
Elaps coronatus, Schley. Ess. II, p. 454, and Abbild t. 46, figs. 12, 13. Gray, in 
Capt. Grey's Australia , pi. 5, f. 2. 
Alecto coronata, Bum . ^ Bibr. y p. 1255, pi. 76, 6, f. 2. 
Hoplocephalus coronatus, Gunther , o/* Colub. Snakes in Col. Brit. Mus. 
Scales in 15 rows. 
Abdominal plates, 138 or more. 
One anal plate. 
Subcaudal plates, 46 or more. 
Total length, 18 inches. 
Head, £ inch. 
Tail, 31 inches. 
Body short and stout; head flat, distinct from neck; tail short, 
tapering, distinct from trunk; hack olive-green, lighter on the sides; head 
bluish olive above, on each side (crossing the rostral shield) a black beneath 
a white-edged streak, both joined by a broad black collar at the back of the 
head; under part of upper and lower labials and chin-shields dotted with 
black; ventral plates reddish or salmon-colored (in spirits), more or less 
black-edged; subcaudals more indistinctly marked; scales hexagonal, 
skin between them black; eye moderate, pupil rounded. 
This, like the preceding species, inhabits ‘Western Australia, 
and is as common in the neighbourhood of King George’s Sound as Dlemenia 
reticulata is near Sydney. Like most Hoplocephali , it frequents the sunny 
side of stony hills, brings forth from ten to fifteen young annually, and is 
diurnal in its habits. Specimens have been captured in the western part of 
South Australia, and its range is supposed to extend beyond the Swan 
Liver. This species is not found in New South Wales. 
Tasmanian Snake. Hoplocephalus coronoides , 
(Plate XII, figs. 1, la.) 
Hoplocephalus coronoides. Gunther , Cat. of Colub. Snakes in Coll. Brit. lfus. y p. 215. 
Scales in 15 rows. 
Abdominal plates, 150 or more. 
One anal plate. 
Subcaudals, 46 to 50. 
Total length, 15 inches, 
Head, 1 inch. 
Tail, 21 inches. 
