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AUSTRALIAN SNAKES. 
plates are otherwise of a clear straw yellow, brighter in young subjects. 
The outer margin of each scale of the hack is darkly shaded, with a light 
elongate spot in the middle, giving the body a keeled appearance. 
Mr. George Masters discovered this handsome little snake at the 
Pine Mountain near Ipswich, Queensland, and he states that it could be 
freely handled without its offering to bite. 
Our figures of it are much enlarged. 
Harriet’s Snake. Cacopliis harriettce. 
(Plate XI, fig. 13.) 
Cacophis harriettse, Krefft, Proc. Zool. Soc., 1869. 
Scales in 15 rows. 
Abdominal plates, 193. 
Two anal plates. 
Subcaudals, 35-35, or more. 
Total length, 12 inches. 
Head, ^ inch. 
Tail, 1-g inch. 
Body rather elongate and rounded; head scarcely distinct from 
trunk, quadrangular, not much depressed; tail rather short and stout, 
distinct from the body. 
The vertical is rounded off behind, about as large again as the super- 
ciliaries; the occipitals are rather small and narrow, not much larger 
than the vertical (too large in our figure). The plates on the side of the 
face are similar to those of C. forclei; the third and fourth upper labials 
come under the eye, and the sixth and last is the largest; the temporal 
shields are, one large one, and two others of unequal size behind. The 
general color is a kind of purplish brown above, each scale with a white 
central streak (except the outer row on each side), forming 13 thin lines 
from nape to base of tail; head and neck white above, with a central spot 
(the color of the body) covering part of posterior frontals, vertical, super- 
ciliaries, occipitals, and one row of scales surrounding the occipitals. 
