56 VENOMS 
Habitat: Eastern, Northern, 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. sutherlandi.—Characters as before. Scales on the body 
in 17 rows; 160 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 River, Queensland. 
(d) Diemenia. 
Maxillary bones extending 
forwards as far as the pala- 
tines, with a pair of large 
orooved 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 
ann or divided; frontal elongate. 
Fic. 48.—Diemenia olivacea (Northern 
Australia and New Guinea). 
(After Krefft. ) in 15—19 rows (more on the 
30dy cylindrical; scales smooth, 
neck). Tail moderate or long ; 
subcaudals all or for the most 
part in 2 rows. 
Coloration very variable, 
orange-yellow, olive, red-brown, 
Fic. 49.— Diemenia textilis. 
or pale brown. 
Average length, 1,000—1,700 millimetres. 
Habitat : South-eastern New Guinea, and Australia. 
