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The Gunnus or Aphia is also very poisonous, of about the 
same size as the preceding, and of very repulsive appearance. 
Both these species are found in stony places; the latter par- 
ticularly abounding along the eastern slope of the valley of 
Kashmir. 
Wise says* that the Grecian physicians of olden times 
found no remedies for snake-bites, but the Indians did cure 
persons bitten; on which account an edict was published, 
ordering all persons bitten by a serpent to be brought to the 
king’s tent, where the Hindoo physicians would+cure them. 
SECOND GENUS—TORTRICID A. 
Ventral scales but little larger than the others; a mental groove ex- 
ists; upper labials six. 
These are “short tails,” those found in the East Indies 
belonging to one species only. 
No.1. Tort. cylindrophis (Wagler, Rufus, Gray), is the 
_Schilay Pamboo of Dr. Patrick Russell. 
No. 2. T. cylindrophis maculatus (Linn.) is the Anguis 
maculata of Russell. These are both East India species. 
Wood} classifies the Coral snake as Tortrix scytale, but 
Wagler and other naturalists place it under the genus Elaps. 
A classification of the South American genera will find other 
varieties belonging to this genus. | 
No. 3. Tortrix botte—Charine botte—{ Gray, Blainv.), is a 
North American variety. 
THIRD GENUS—XENOPELTIDA. Giinth. 
Ventrals distinct ; two pair of frontals; five occipitals. 
Cantor gives one East India variety of this genus, viz., 
* History of Medicine, &c., vol. i, p. 277. 
+ Wood’s Zoology, vol. iii. 
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