322 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL BISTORT SOCIETY, Vol. XVII. 

 Lachexis anamaVensis — The Anamallay Viper. 



Identification.— Supraocular divided, and co-existing with this, a 

 subocular not touching 

 the 3rd labial. 



Supplementary cha- 

 racters : I/iternasah. — 

 A pair separated by a 

 small scale. Supra- 

 ocular divided. JSasal 

 not united with 1st 

 labial ; small scales 

 may or may not be 

 intercalated between 

 it and the 2nd la- 

 bial. Subocular— Not 

 touching the 3rd labial. 

 2nd labial, with a 

 furrow in its upper 

 part directed into the Fig. 85.— Lachesis anamallensis (nat, size), 



loreal pit. Scales. — Anterior, 21 ; midbody usually 21, (rarely 19) j 

 posterior, 15 or 17. 



Distribution.- Confined to the Western Ghats and hilly regions- 

 south of the Krishna River, where it is quite common, at altitudes 

 ranging between 2,000 to 7,000 feet. 



Poison — Jerdon* has known several cases of bite, but none proved 

 fatal. Mr. Henderson has informed me by letter how he was once 

 bitten by one in the forefinger. The snake was half grown. He 

 sucked the wound, and cauterised it at once, and " suffered very little 

 discomfort." For some time afterwards he experienced a sense of 

 weight in this arm when it was held down. Fergusonf relates how 

 Baron Yon Rosenberg was bitten by this snake in the foot. Ho did not 

 know he was bitten, and walked 10 miles before pain asserted itself. 

 He then found the member so swollen he had to cut the boot off. 

 After a night of pain and fever, a cupfull of blood and matter came 

 away, and it was several days before he could wear anythirg but a 



* Journal, Asiatic Society of Bengal, V< 1. XXII., p. 525. 

 t Journal, Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc, Vol. X., p. 9. 



