Venoms: Venomous Animals and Antivenomous Serum-therapeutics. A. Calmette
in broad bands with white intervals; head blackish-brown; belly white; tail with red rings.
Total length, 750 millimetres; tail 110.
Habitat: Faro and Howla Islands, Bougainville Straits, Solomon Islands.
(21) D. woodfordii.—Scales in 17 rows; 166–172 ventrals; 41–45 subcaudal pairs.
Colour brownish-white, with a reticulate pattern; head dark brown; belly white.
Total length, 670 millimetres; tail 100.
Habitat: New Georgia, Solomon Islands.
(g) Micropechis.
Maxillary bones extending forward as far as the palatines, with a pair of large grooved poison-fangs, followed by three small solid teeth; mandibular teeth longer in front. Head distinct from the neck; eyes very small, with round pupils; nostril between two nasal shields. Body cylindrical; scales smooth, in 15 or 17 rows. Tail short; subcaudals in 2 rows.
(1) M. ikaheka.—Scales in 15 rows; 180–223 ventrals; 39–55 subcaudals.
Colour yellow and black, in irregular cross-bars; head and tail black above; belly yellow.
Total length, 1,550 millimetres; tail 180.
Habitat: New Guinea.
(2) M. elapoides.—Scales in 17 rows; 208 ventrals; 35 subcaudals.
Colour cream, with 22 black bands, broader than the interspaces between them; snout and ocular region black.
Total length, 750 millimetres; tail 75.
Habitat: Florida Island, Solomon Group.
(h) Hoplocephalus.
Characters the same as in Micropechis. Scales in 21 rows; ventrals angulate and notched laterally. Tail moderate; subcaudals in a single row.
(1) H. bungaroides (Syn. H. variegatus. The Broad-headed Snake).—204–221 ventrals; 40–56 subcaudals.
Colour black on the back, with yellow spots forming more or less regular cross-bands on the body; upper lip yellow, margined with black; belly blackish, yellow on the sides.
Total length, 1,620 millimetres; tail 210.
Habitat: New South Wales.
(2) H. bitorquatus (fig. 58).—Ventral scales strongly angulate laterally, 191–227; subcaudals 44–59.
Fig. 58.—Hoplocephalus bitorquatus.
Colour olive-green; head pale olive, with a bright yellow occipital blotch, and a large black blotch on each side of the nape; a pair of small spots in front of and between the eyes; three black transverse blotches on the vertex; belly greyish-olive or brown.
Total length, 510 millimetres; tail 95.
Habitat: Queensland, New South Wales.
(3) H. stephensii.—239 ventrals; 60 subcaudals.
Body barred alternately with black and white; the black bars are twice as broad as the white ones; head dark, spotted with yellow; a W-shaped yellow mark on the back of the head.
Total length, 760 millimetres.
Habitat: Port Macquarie, New South Wales.
(i) Tropidechis.
Same general characters; nasal shield entire; scales on the body strongly keeled, in 23 rows. Tail moderate; subcaudals in a single row.
T. carinatus.—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.
(j) Notechis.
Same general characters; pupil round; nasal shield entire. Body cylindrical; scales smooth, disposed obliquely, in 15–19 rows, the lateral scales shorter than the dorsals. Tail moderate; subcaudals in a single row.
N. scutatus (Syn. Hoplocephalus curtus. The Tiger Snake. Fig. 59).—Colour dark olive; belly yellow or olive; the shields often dark-edged.
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