Colour green, with darker or lighter markings, black and yellow, or nearly entirely black.
Total length, 980 millimetres; tail 150.
Habitat: Malay Peninsula and Archipelago.
C.—AFRICA.
In Africa, poisonous snakes abound throughout the whole of the tropical and sub-tropical zones. The fatal accidents to human beings caused by them in this continent are fewer than in India, since the population of Africa is less dense, but several species occur, the venom of which is especially dangerous to life.
These species belong in nearly equal numbers to the Families Colubridæ and Viperidæ.
I.—Colubridæ.
The poisonous Colubridæ of Africa are all included in the Subfamily Elapinæ, of which the following are the eight principal genera:—
(a) Boulengerina. (b) Elapechis. (c) Naja. (d) Sepedon. (e) Aspidelaps. (f) Walterinnesia. (g) Homorelaps. (h) Dendraspis.