(11) A. microlepidota.—Characters as before. Scales on the body in 29-37 rows; 212-245 ventrals; 26-37 subcaudals.
Colour uniform dark brown.
Total length, 540 millimetres; tail 45.
Habitat: Central and East Africa.
D.—AUSTRALIA AND THE LARGE ADJACENT ISLANDS.
The Sunda Islands and the whole of Malaysia are rich in poisonous snakes. Those that are found there belong for the most part to species that we have already met with in India or the Malay Peninsula. We shall therefore not describe them again here.
All those that inhabit Australia are included in the great Family Colubridæ and the Subfamily Elapinæ. There are no Viperidæ; but certain genera of poisonous Colubridæ are peculiar to this continent.
These reptiles have been particularly well studied by Gérard Krefft, formerly Director of the Australian Museum at Sydney, from whose work[5] we shall borrow a considerable portion of the following notes, and the figures accompanying them.
The genera represented in Australia are:—
| (a) | Ogmodon. |
| (b) | Glyphodon. |
| (c) | Pseudelaps. |
| (d) | Diemenia. |
| (e) | Pseudechis. |
| (f) | Denisonia. |
| (g) | Micropechis. |
| (h) | Hoplocephalus. |
| (i) | Tropidechis. |
| (j) | Notechis. |
| (k) | Rhinhoplocephalus. |
| (l) | Brachyaspis. |
| (m) | Acanthophis. |
| (n) | Elapognathus. |
| (o) | Rhynchelaps. |
| (p) | Furina. |