INDEX. 239 
Snake, banded, rattle, 81 
flame, 97 
Snake-bites, 65 cases officially reported to East India Government, 153-160 
Species of North American serpents, table of, 14-20 
other serpents, 20 
Shields on head of snakes, 46 
Tanjore pill, composition of, 178 
Toxical effects of Elaps corallinus, 108 
Vipera lachesis bufocephalus, 109, 226 | 
os flavus, yellow-mouthed, 110, 148 
niger, 111 
calamaris venenosus, 111 
pseudechis major, 111 
echis striata, 111 
calamaris venenosus rubrum, 111 
Crotalus cascabella, 112 
Theridion curassay., in phthisis florida, Dr. Baruch, 227 
Tolima, United States of Colombia, vipera in, 107 
Venom-gland, structure of (plate), 184 
Viper, lives a year without food or water, 91 
niger, receives her young into her mouth, 94 
horned, cerastes, vicious-looking, 98 . 
Vipers, additional varieties, 100 
21 South African, 101 
27 Australian, 101 
Vipera lachesis trigonocephalus (Hering), 94 
lance-headed, 88 
fatality of poison of, 88 
Viperide, 68 varieties, 88-116 
Vomiting of blood caused by Cobra-bites, 228 
Worm snake, vermic. amphis., 98 
Yellow fever, relation of to serpent-poison, 129, 131. 
