82 VENOMS 
Krefft, formerly Director of the Australian Museum at Sydney, 
from whose work! we shall borrow a considerable portion of the 
following notes, and the figures accompanying them. 
The genera represented in Australia are :— 
(a) Ogmodon. 
(b) Glyphodon. 
(c) Pseudelaps. 
(d) Diemenia. 
(e) Pseudechis. 
({) Denisonia. 
(g) Micropechis. 
(h 
) 
) 
) Hoplocephalus. 
) Tropidechis. 
) Notechis. 
) Rhinhoplocephalus. 
(1) Brachyaspis. 
(m) Acanthophis. 
(n) Elapognathus. 
(0) Rhynchelaps. 
(p) Purina. 
(a) Ogmodon. 
This genus is characterised by the maxillary bones extending 
forwards as far as the palatines, and bearing, in addition to the 
poison-fangs, 6—7 grooved teeth. The head is not distinct from 
the neck; the eyes are very small. The body is cylindrical, and 
covered with smooth scales in 17 rows. Tail short; subcaudal 
scales in 2 rows. 
O. vitianus.—Snout elongate, pointed; 139—152 ventral scales ; 
27—-38 subcaudals. 
1 The Snakes of Australia,” Sydney, 1869. 
