THE PRINCIPAL SPECIES OF POISONOUS SNAKES 



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Colour dark brown, lighter on the sides; belly brown or white, 

 more or less spotted with black; tail black. 

 Total length, 360 millimetres ; tail 45. 

 Habitat : Fiji Islands. 



Fig. 43. — Skull of Glyphodon tristis (Australian Colubrino). 

 (After G. A. Bouleuger, op. cit.) 



(b) Glyphodon. 



General (characters tlie same ; snout rounded ; poison-fangs 

 followed, after a wide interspace, by () small grooved teeth ; 

 anterior mandibular teeth strongly developed (fig. 43). Head and 



