_Habitat_: Queensland. (3) _R. semifasciatus._--Scales in 17 rows; 143-170 ventrals; 17-25 subcaudals. Colour yellow, with brown cross-bands; large brown blotches on the head and nape; belly white. Total length, 300 millimetres; tail 30. _Habitat_: West Australia. (4) _R. fasciolatus._--Scales in 17 rows; 145-161 ventrals; 22-27 subcaudals. Colour red, with numerous blackish-brown cross-bands; large blackish-brown blotches on the head and nape; belly white. Total length, 335 millimetres; tail 30. _Habitat_: West Australia. (p) =Furina.= (Figs. 63 and 64.) Maxillary bones extending forwards beyond the palatines, bearing a pair of moderately large grooved poison-fangs, and one or two small teeth near their posterior extremities; mandibular teeth subequal. Head small, not distinct from neck; eyes very small, with round pupils; nostril in a single nasal shield. Body cylindrical; scales smooth, in 15 rows. Tail very short, obtuse; subcaudals in 2 rows. (1) _F. calonota._--Six supralabial shields; 126-131 ventrals; 29-30 subcaudals. Colour yellow, with a black vertebral stripe; a black bar across the end of the snout; a large black blotch covering the vertex and the parietals; belly white. Total length, 215 millimetres; tail 33. _Habitat_: West Australia. (2) _F. bimaculata._--Scales in 15 rows; 181-200 ventrals; 21-25 subcaudals. [Illustration: FIG. 63.--SKULL OF _Furina occipitalis_. (After G. A. Boulenger, _op. cit._)] [Illustration: FIG. 64.--_Furina occipitalis._] Colour yellow, with large black blotches on the snout, middle of head, and occiput; belly white. Total length, 330 millimetres; tail 25. _Habitat_: West Australia. (3) _F. occipitalis_ (fig. 64).--Scales in 15 rows; 180-234 ventrals; 14-25 subcaudals. Entire body ringed with black and white, annuli narrower on head black, with a broad white band across the occiput, and another narrower and irregular one across the snout; nose black. Total length, 590 millimetres; tail 36. _Habitat_: Australia. * * * * * There are no poisonous snakes in New Zealand. In New Caledonia no _terrestrial_ poisonous snakes are known, but _Hydrophiidæ_ abound on its shores, as on those of the majority of the islands of the Pacific. In Australia, especially in New South Wales and farther to the north, fatalities due to the bites of poisonous snakes are not rare. The most dangerous species are: _Acanthophis antarcticus_ (the Death Adder), _Diemenia textilis_ (the Brown Snake), _Pseudechis porphyriacus_ (the Black Snake), and _Notechis scutatus_ or _Hoplocephalus curtus_ (the Tiger Snake).