380 VENOMS 
Dialysis, results of, in experiments with venoms of Colubridæ and Viperide, 161. 
Diastases, action upon venoms, 214. 
Diastasic actions of venoms, 212. 
Diemenia, 86. 
a modesta, 87. 
5 nuchalis, 87. 
5 olivacea, 87. 
66 psammophis, 87. 
a textilis (brown snake), 87. 
a = », bite dangerous, 100. 
tor quata, 87. 
Digestion of snakes aided by venoms, 213, 214. 
Digestive tract, absorption of venoms of Colubridæ often without ill-effect on, 180, 181. 
» ” ») LE] LE] LE] ” cause, 181. 
Diodon, 305. 
Dipsadomorphine, sub-family of Opisthoglypha, 3. 
3 geographical distribution, 4. 
Dipsas, teeth of, 8. 
Distira, fresh-water genus of Hydrophiine, 5, 136. 
a5 cyanocincta, 137. 
»  Jerdonii, 137. 
- ornata, 136. 
a subcincta, 187. 
Dog, minimal dose of cobra-venom lethal for, 174. 
Dog-faced rattle-snake, 124. See also Crotalus terrificus. 
Doliophis, 42. 
$5 bilineatus, 43. 
as bivirgatus, 42. 
- intestinalis, 42. 
ss philippinus, 43. 
Domestic animals, treatment of poisonous bites in, 265. 
Duck-billed platypus (Ornithorhynchus paradoxus or O. anatinus), 323. 
Duméril and Bibron, on coloration of snakes, 16. 
Naja worship in Egypt, 61. 
Dutch Indies, An snakes inhabiting, 30-57. 
Dyer, venom antitoxin treatment of yellow fever, 184. 
EAU DE JAVEL, antidote to venom before absorption, 263. 
Ae in treatment of wasp- or bee-stings, 286. 
Roue chemistry of, 160. 
Bo (sea-urchins), 273. 
Echinoderms, poisonous species of, 273. 
Echis, 48, 76. 
»  carinatus (efa, viper of the pyramids), 48, 76. 
+ , bite from, 347. 
5 55 dreaded by Egyptians, 77. 
Pp ay venom rapid in action, 49. 
,,  coloratus, 717. 
