THE PRINCIPAL SPECIES OP 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. 



Pig. 43. — Skull op Glyphodon tristis (Australian Colubrine). 

 (After G. A. Bouleuger, o}). cit.) 



(b) Glyphodon. 



General characters the same ; snout rounded ; poison-fangs 

 followed, after a wide interspace, by 6 small grooved teeth ; 

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



