98 VENOMS 



Colour yellow, with 19 — 40 black annuli, usually narrower than 

 the interspaces ; head brown, with a large black blotch on the 

 nape, and another on the vertex and temples. 

 Total length, '270 millimetres ; tail 'I'l. 

 Habitat : Southern and Western Australia. 



(•2) B. aust rails (fig. 62). — Scales in 17 rows ; 152 — 163 ventrals; 

 18 — 20 subcaudals. 



Colour red on the body, with ill- 

 defined cross-bars formed of yellowish 

 black-edged scales ; a black blotch on 

 the head, covering the vertex and 

 temples, and surrounding the eyes ; 



Yio. o±-Rinjncnclaps anstralis. another large blotch on the nape; 



snout and occiput yellow ; belly white. 



Total length, 290 millimetres : tail 25. 



Habitat : Queensland. 



(8) li. semlfasclatus. — Scales in 17 rows ; 118 — 170 ventrals ; 

 17 — 25 subcaudals. 



Colour yellow, with brown cross-bands ; large brown blotches 

 on the head and nape ; belly white. 



Total length, 800 millimetres ; tail 80. - 



Habitat : West Australia. 



(4) li. fasclolatas. — Scales in 17 rows; 115 — 161 ventrals; 

 22 — 27 subcaudals. 



Colour red, with numerous blackish-brown cross-bauds ; large 

 blackish-brown blotches on the head and nape ; belly white. 



Total length, 835 millimetres ; tail 30. 



Habitat : West Australia. 



(p) Furina. 



(Figs. 63 and 04.) 



Maxillary bones extending forwards beyond the palatines, bear- 

 ing a pair of moderately large grooved poison -fangs, and one or 



