Venoms; venomous animals and antivenomous serum-therapeutics . , rigid. Scales smooth, in 15 rows. Tail short ;subcaudals in a single row. B. hicolor.—Colour grevish-olive on the back, yellowish-whiteon the belly ; tongue white. Total length, 395 millimetres ; tail 55. Habitat: Australia. (1) Brachyaspis. Characters the same, but head distinct from the neck ; eyessmall, with vertically elliptic pupils ; nostril between two nasalshields. Body stout, cylindrical ; scales smooth, slightly oblique,in 19 rows. Tail short; subcaudals in a single row. B. ciirta.—Colour uniform olive-brown ; belly yel
Venoms; venomous animals and antivenomous serum-therapeutics . , rigid. Scales smooth, in 15 rows. Tail short ;subcaudals in a single row. B. hicolor.—Colour grevish-olive on the back, yellowish-whiteon the belly ; tongue white. Total length, 395 millimetres ; tail 55. Habitat: Australia. (1) Brachyaspis. Characters the same, but head distinct from the neck ; eyessmall, with vertically elliptic pupils ; nostril between two nasalshields. Body stout, cylindrical ; scales smooth, slightly oblique,in 19 rows. Tail short; subcaudals in a single row. B. ciirta.—Colour uniform olive-brown ; belly yellowish. 96 VENOMS Total length, 490 millimetres ; tail : Western Australia. (m) Acanthophis {Death Adder). (Figs. GO, fil.) Maxillary bones extending forwards as far as the palatines,with a pair of large grooved poison-fangs, followed by two or threesmall teeth; anterior mandibular teeth elongate, fang-like. Headdistinct from the neck ; eyes small, with vertically elliptic pupils ;nostril in the upper part of a single nasal shield. Body stout,.
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