234 INDEX. 
Boericke, Dr., his specimen of Lachesis trigonocephalus described, 94 
Bolivar, United States of Colombia, Vipera in, 102 
Bora, 48 
Boyaca, United States of Colombia, Vipera in, 104 
Buffon’s classification of Ophidians, 18 
Bufo s. causes and cures impotency, 224 
Carbolic acid, action of, on Cobra and on frog, 164-171 
Cauca, United States of Colombia, Vipera in, 104 
Caquetta, United States of Colombia, Vipera in, 105 
Classification of serpents, Giinther’s, 21 
Cobra, taming of, 52 
changeable color of, 76 
vomiting of blood caused by Cobra-bites, 228-229 
Copperhead, 63 
Coral snake, 64 
curious mode of cleansing poison-fangs of, 65 
varieties of, 67 
sexual commerce of, 67 
Cotton-mouth, water moccasin, 98 
Crotalus, fetid smell of, whence the name, 86, 100 
‘‘ bites high,” 87 
fasciatus, banded rattlesnake, 81 
poisonous action of, Dr. Lilienthal, 227 
Grotalidz, thirty-nine varieties, 75-88 
Cundinamarca, United States of Colombia, Vipera in, 105 
Curers, snake, superstition of, 96 
secret methods of, 202-208 
recognize the snake by the bite, 97 
Deafness, chronic, cured with Elaps corallinus gall, 225 
Death-adder of Australia, 98 
Deaths, annual, from snake-bites in India, 134 
Elaps corallinus poison, effects of, 108 
Elapide naja, forty varieties, 48-55 
ophiophagus, many varieties, 55-68 
Electricity, relation of atmospheric, to venom of serpents, 86, 116 
Experiments (124) with serpent-poison on fowls and animals, 161-173 
summary of, 174-175 
