Venoms; venomous animals and antivenomous serum-therapeutics . greyish-olive or brown. Total length, 510 millimetres ; tail 95. Habitat: Queensland, New South Wales. (3) H, stepliensii.—230 ventrals; 00 subcaudals. Body barred alternately with black and white; the black barsare twice as bioad as the white ones; head dark, spotted withyellow ; a W-shaped yellow mark on the back of the head. Total length, 700 millimetres. Habitat: Port Macquarie, New South Fig. bH. —Hoploccplinlits hitorquatus. (i) Tropidechis. Same general characters; nasal shield entire ; scales on thebody strongly kee


Venoms; venomous animals and antivenomous serum-therapeutics . greyish-olive or brown. Total length, 510 millimetres ; tail 95. Habitat: Queensland, New South Wales. (3) H, stepliensii.—230 ventrals; 00 subcaudals. Body barred alternately with black and white; the black barsare twice as bioad as the white ones; head dark, spotted withyellow ; a W-shaped yellow mark on the back of the head. Total length, 700 millimetres. Habitat: Port Macquarie, New South Fig. bH. —Hoploccplinlits hitorquatus. (i) Tropidechis. Same general characters; nasal shield entire ; scales on thebody strongly keeled, in 23 rows. Tail moderate; subcaudals ina single row. T. carinatiLs.—Colour dark olive, with darker cross-bands;belly yellow, more or less tinged with olive-green. Total length, 730 millimetres ; tail 120. Habitat: New South Wales, Queensland. THE PLTXCIPAL SPECIES OF POISOXOUS SNAKES 95 (j) Notechis. Same general charactei-s; papil round; nasal shield cylindrical; scales smooth, disposed obliquely, in 15—19rows, the lateral scales shorter than the dorsals. Tail moderate ;subcaudals in a single row. N. saitatus > C^yn. Hoplocepli-(diis curtus. The Tiger 59). —? Colour dark olive ;belly yellow or olive ; the shieldsoften dark-edged. Total length, 1,280 milli-metres ; tail 170. Habitat: Australia and Tas-mania. :^^


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