. The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology. Natural history; Zoology; Botany; Geology. Mr. G. Krefft on a new Australian Snake. 225 Fish' out of the bush, called by the natives Egalegala • they are perfectly black, and are very fine eating. They are so fat they will fry without butter, taste something like eels; they are in shape something like ' Cat-fish? with filaments from the lower jaw ; they live amongst the mud in the mangrove bush. It would be grand to acclimatize them ; they are such fine eating. They would drive eels out of the ; Description
. The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology. Natural history; Zoology; Botany; Geology. Mr. G. Krefft on a new Australian Snake. 225 Fish' out of the bush, called by the natives Egalegala • they are perfectly black, and are very fine eating. They are so fat they will fry without butter, taste something like eels; they are in shape something like ' Cat-fish? with filaments from the lower jaw ; they live amongst the mud in the mangrove bush. It would be grand to acclimatize them ; they are such fine eating. They would drive eels out of the ; Description of Aspidiotes melanocephalus, a New Snake from PortDenison, Australia. By Gerard Krefft, Acting Curator and Secretary, Australian Museum, Sydney. Fam. Aspidiotes, nov. gen. Crown covered with broad shields reaching behind the eyes ; the remaining part of the head scaly; labial shields without pits, the front ones high and narrow, the hinder shields lower and broad. Nostrils lateral, in the middle of a plate, two loreals, two anterior and four posterior oculars ; superciliaries broad, rather prominent above the eye; nasal shield very large, much produced backwards, and deeply grooved on its lower edge. Scales smooth, in fifty-two series on the middle of the body ; ventral plates rather narrow; sub- caudals entire, except the last ten or twelve, which are divided. Tail conical, prehensile, ending in a blunt point. Head rather high, of moderate size; teeth not very large (smaller than in Morelia). Body thick and compressed. Aspidiotes melanocephalus. Scales in 52 series on the middle of the body. Ventral shields narrow, 330. Anal entire. Subcaudals 51^. Head rather high ; body thick and compressed ; tail conical, taper- ing, prehensile, ending in a blunt point; anal spurs small; ten upper. labials, the sixth coming into the orbit; two anterior and four poste- rior ocular shields; two loreals, the second nearest to the eye very small; one nasal, pierced by the nostr
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