White-lipped Snake, Drysdalia coronoides
Plate 11, Figure 2. The White-lipped Snake, Hoplocephalus coronoides (now known as Drysdalia coronoides) found at Melbourne, Bullarook
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Illustration - Pencil, Watercolour & Ink on Paper of Drysdalia coronoides, White-lipped Snake, Arthur Bartholomew
It has been supposed hitherto to be peculiar to Tasmania, but it certainly (like the H. superbus, also supposed not to occur on the mainland) is a not uncommon species about Melbourne.
The figured specimen is that from Yarra-bank, while the one from Bullarook Forest was remarkable for a more general rusty reddish coloring.
The head only has been figured of this species before.