AUSTRALIAN SNAKES. 
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The shields on the side of the face, the lower labials, and chin- 
shields, are dark spotted and blotched; eye small, pupil rounded. Abdo¬ 
minal plates uniform purplish brown, with a light outer edge; subcaudals 
with similar markings. 
Habitat, Warro, Port Curtis, Queensland. Discovered by E. A. 
Blackman, Esq., of Warro. 
Blackman’s Snake. Cacophis blachnanii. 
(Plate XII, fig. 9.) 
Cacophis blackmanii, Krqff't., Proc. Zool. Soc., 1869. 
Scales in 15 rows. 
Abdominal plates, 197. 
Two anal plates. 
Subcaudals, 43-43, or more. 
Total length, 16 inches. 
Head, f inch. 
Tail, 2J inches. 
Body elongate and rounded, head distinct from neck, rather 
depressed, with obtuse muzzle. The vertical, without the sharp angle 
behind, would form a square. The superciliaries are very small, slightly 
larger than the anterior ocular; occipitals also of small size, and not as 
large again as the vertical; the hind part of the head rather thick; the 
vertical and occipitals depressed. 
Six upper labials, the two last of about equal size, with a large 
temporal shield wedged in between them ; seven lower labials. 
Purplish brown above, lighter on the sides; all scales with a 
slightly transparent outer margin, but without any markings; ventrals 
straw-yellow, with darker spots in the corners; head, from the muzzle to 
the occipitals, dark brown above ; the upper margin of the upper labials 
tinted with the same color; the rest and the lower labials yellowish; 
mental shield dark brown. The upper part of the head behind the 
occipitals light brown; a clear small spot in the corner of each super¬ 
ciliary plate yellow. 
Habitat, the Pine Mountain, Queensland. Discovered by Mr. 
George Masters. 
