THE PRINCIPAL SPECIES OF POISONOUS SNAKES 91 
Total length, 200 millimetres ; tail 23, 
Habitat : Southern Australia. 
(10) D. frontalis.—Scales in 19 rows; 154 ventrals; 30 sub- 
caudals. 
Colour light brown, with a vertebral black line; belly pearly- 
white, with a median bronze-coloured band. 
Total length, 400 millimetres ; tail 50. 
Habitat: New South Wales. 
(11) D. flagellum.—Scales in 17 rows; 132—138 ventrals ; 25 
—27 subcaudals. 
Colour pale brown ; vertex, occiput, and nape black ; upper 
lip and belly white. 
Total length, 380 millimetres; tail 40. 
Habitat : Victoria. 
(12) D. maculata (fig. 56).—Seales 
in 17 rows; 121—135 ventrals ; 20—30 
subcaudals. 
Colour dark grey-brown, or brown; 
a large dark olive-green or brown blotch 
on the head, with two or three unequal 
light grey spots ; belly white. 
Total length, 400 millimetres ; 
tail 55. 
Habitat : Queensland. 
(13) D. punctata. — Scales in 15 
rows; 160 ventrals; 25 subcaudals. 
Fie. 57.—Denisonia gouldii. 
Colour pale brown; head and nape 
orange; upper hp and belly yellow. 
Total length, 350 millimetres ; tail 36. 
Habitat : North-Western Australia. 
(14) D. gouldii (fig. 57).—Scales in 15 rows; 140—170 ventrals ; 
22—23 subcaudals. 
Colour brownish-yellow ; nape black ; head covered with a broad 
greenish-blue blotch, extending from the nose to the neck; upper 
lip and belly yellow. 
