98 VENOMS 



Colour yellow, with 19 — 40 black annuii, 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 veatrals; 

 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 ; 

 Ym.&i.-Rhynchelaps australis. another large blotch on the nape; 



snout and occiput yellow ; belly white. 

 Total length, 290 millimetres ; tail 25. 

 Habitat : Queensland. 



(3) B. 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) R. fasciolatus. — Scales in 17 rows ; 145 — 161 ventrals ; 

 22 — 27 subcaudals. 



Colour red, 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 



