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VENOMS 



Fig. 47. — Dicinenia psainmophis. 



Habitat: Eastern, Korthern, and Western Australia. 



(6) P. warro. — Characters the same as in the previous species ; 

 143 ventrals. Colour brown ; a broad lunate black collar on the 

 nape; head black above, but paler than the collar. 



Habitat: Port Curtis, Queensland. 



(7) P. siitherlandi. — Characters as before. Scales on the body 

 in 17 rows ; 1(50 ventrals : 40 subcaudals. Colour red-brown on 

 the back, yellow on the belly ; a broad lunate black collar on the 

 nape, with a lighter edging ; light bars across the head, body, and 

 tail. 



Habitat : Norman Eiver, Queensland. 



(d) Diemenia. 



Maxillary bones extending 

 forwards as far as the pala- 

 tines, with a pair of large 

 grooved poison-fangs, followed, 

 after an interspace, by 7 — 15 

 small grooved teeth ; anterior 

 mandibular teeth much elon- 

 gated, resembling poison-fangs- 

 Head scarcely distinct from the 

 neck ; eyes rather large, with 

 round pupils ; nasal shield entire 

 or divided ; frontal elongate. 

 Body cylindrical; scales smooth, 

 in 15 — li) rows (more on the 

 neck). Tail moderate or long ; 

 subcaudals all or for the most 

 part in '1 rows. 



Coloration very variable, 

 orange-yellow, olive, red-brown, 

 or pale brown. 

 Average length, 1,000 — 1,700 millimetres. 

 Habitat : South-eastern New Guinea, and Australia. 



Fig. 48. — Dicinenia olivacca (Northern 

 Australia and New Guinea). 

 (After Krefft.) 



Fig. 49. — Diemenia tc.vtilis. 



