P. sebae 
P. timoriensis 
*Lilith' or ‘arrow snake' 
(= Eryx jaculus?) 
Colubridae 
Ahaetulla nasuta 
Amphiesma stolata 
Atretium schistosum 
Cemophora coccinea 
Cerberus rynchops 
Clelia clelia 
Coronella austriaca 
Diadophis punctatus 
Elaphe climacophora 
E. flavolineata 
E 
. guttata 
Im 
obsoleta 
E. quadrivirgata 
E. quatuorlineata 
E. schrenki 
Farancia abacura 
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Benedict, 1932; Kopstein, 1938; Lederer, 
1944, 1956; Taylor, 1965; Honegger, 1970, 
1970/71, 1975; Miller, 1970; Vinegar et 
al., 1970; Foekema, 1971; La Panouse and 
Pellier, 1973; Johnson, 1977; Trutnau, 
1980, 1986; Slavens, 1984 
Giinther, 1862; Sclater, 1862; [Giinther], 
1886; F. FitzSimons, [1912], 1930; 
Werner, 1930 (in Angel, 1950); Benedict 
and Mann in Ditmars, 1931; Benedict, 
1932; Benedict et al., 1932; Pitman, 
1938; Lederer, 1942, 1944, 1956; 
Broadley, 1959; Anonymous, 1960a,b; 
Dowling, 1960, 1961; Sweeney, 1961; V. 
FitzSimons, 1962, 1970; Meyer-Holzapfel, 
1969; Schiitte, 1970; Vinegar et al., 
1970; Munnig Schmidt, 1971, 1973; 
Patterson, 1974; Branch and Patterson, 
1975; Broadley and Cock, 1975a, b; 
Pienaur et al., 1978; Dunn, 1979b; 
Slavens, 1985; Trutnau, 1986; Patterson 
and Bannister, 1987; Branch, 1988; 
Schleich and Kastle, 1988; Shine, 1988 
Murphy et al., 1978; Barker, 1982 
Isaiah 34:15, [c. 745-350 BC], (McDowell et 
al., 1982) 
Rieppel, 1970 
Wall, 1911, 1921; Mell, 1929; Daniel, 1983 
Murthy, 1986 
Ditmars, 1907 
Whitaker, 1978; Trutnau, 1986 
Brazil, 1914, and in Roosevelt, 1914 
Appleby, 1971 
2?McCauley, 1945; Cook, 1954; Fowlie, 1965; 
?Brodie et al., 1969; Somma, pers. 
observ. 
Fukada, 1965 
Kopstein, 1938 
Kelly et al., 1936; Haast and Anderson, 
1981; Kent in Shine, 1988; T. Miller, 
pers. comm. 
Ditmars, 1907; Medsger, 1919, 1932; 
?Netting, 1927; ?McCauley, 1945; Pope, 
1946; M. Fisher, pers. comm.; J. Lombard, 
pers. comm. 
Fukada, 1965; Orlow, 1982 
Vogel, [19587] 
Kudryavtsev and Frolov, 1984 
Ridgeway, 1883 (in Hay, 1892; Wright and 
Wright, 1957; Minton, 1972); Meade, 1937, 
1940, 1945, 1946; Conant and Downs, 1940; 
