Cacophis modesta Günther Furina ramsayi Macleay, 1885 Brachysoma sutherlandi De Vis, 1884 The ringed brown snake (Pseudonaja modesta) is a species of venomous elapid snake native to a broad swathe of inland Australia, from western New South Wales and Queensland to Western Australia.

[3] The specific name modesta is the Latin adjective "unassuming", "orderly",[4] or "well-behaved", regarded as apt by toxicologist Struan Sutherland, as the snake generally does not bite people.

[5] Meanwhile, Charles Walter De Vis described Brachysoma sutherlandi from Carl Creek, Norman River in northwestern Queensland in 1884,[6] and William Macleay described Furina ramsayi, naming it after Edward Pierson Ramsay, in 1885 from a collection from Milparinka in northwestern New South Wales.

[2] Reaching around 50 cm (20 in) in length, the ringed brown snake has grey-brown to red-brown upperparts with a black head and neck split by a cream band, as well as four to seven black bands with cream margins at regular intervals down the length of its body.

[8] Its colour and markings, particularly its black head and neck band, resemble the juvenile eastern brown snake.