98 VENOMS 
Colour yellow, with 19—40 black annuli, usually narrower than 
the interspaces ; head brown, with a large black blotch on the 
nape, and another on the vertex and temples. 
Total length, 270 millimetres ; tail 22. 
Habitat : Southern and Western Australia. 
(2) R. australis (fig. 62).—Scales in 17 rows; 152—163 ventrals; 
18—20 subcaudals. 
Colour red on the body, with ill- 
defined cross-bars formed of yellowish 
black-edged scales; a black blotch on 
the head, covering the vertex and 
temples, and surrounding the eyes; 
Hig: 62. RM Plans australe. another large blotch on the nape; 
snout and occiput yellow ; belly white. 
Total length, 290 millimetres ; tail 25. 
Habitat : Queensland. 
(3) R. semifasciatus.—Scales in 17 rows; 143—170 ventrals ; 
17—25 subcaudals. 
Colour yellow, with brown cross-bands ; large brown blotches 
on the head and nape ; belly white. 
Total length, 300 millimetres ; tail 30. 
Habitat : West Australia. 
(4) ft. fasciolatus.—Scales in 17 rows; 145—161 ventrals ; 
29—97 subcaudals. 
Colour ved, with numerous blackish-brown cross-bands ; large 
blackish-brown blotches on the head and nape; belly white. 
Total length, 335 millimetres ; tail 30. 
Habitat : West Australia. 
(p) Furina. 
(Figs. 63 and 64.) 
Maxillary bones extending forwards beyond the palatines, bear- 
ing a pair of moderately large grooved poison-fangs, and one or 
