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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 work5 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.