﻿Smithsonian 
  Report, 
  1943. 
  Cochran 
  

  

  Plate 
  5 
  

  

  

  1.J-1VX' 
  

  

  1. 
  Fer-de-lance 
  ( 
  Bo/hro/js 
  utrox), 
  also 
  called 
  barba 
  amarilla, 
  jararaca, 
  terciopelo, 
  or 
  tomigofl. 
  Color: 
  gray 
  

   to 
  olive, 
  brown 
  or 
  reddish, 
  with 
  dark, 
  light-edged 
  cross 
  bands 
  or 
  triangles, 
  the 
  apex 
  of 
  these 
  extending 
  to 
  

   the 
  center 
  of 
  the 
  back. 
  Length: 
  8 
  feet. 
  Range: 
  southern 
  Mexico 
  to 
  central 
  Brazil, 
  also 
  Trinidad 
  and 
  Tobago; 
  

   Martinique 
  and 
  St. 
  Lucia 
  in 
  the 
  West 
  Indies. 
  Exceedingly 
  poisonous. 
  (Courtesy 
  New 
  York 
  Zoological 
  

   Society.) 
  

  

  2. 
  March's 
  palm 
  viper 
  (Bothrops 
  nigroviridis 
  marchi). 
  Color: 
  uniformly 
  brilliant 
  green 
  above, 
  merging 
  

   into 
  yellowish 
  green 
  on 
  the 
  sides. 
  Length: 
  not 
  quite 
  2 
  feet. 
  Range: 
  Honduras. 
  Dangerously 
  poisonous. 
  

   (Courtesy 
  Nature 
  Magazine.) 
  

  

  