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sweeper of the Cantonment Hospital, Chietoo by name, was brought to me 

 and stated that he had been bitten by a snake about 8-30 a.m. whilst he 

 was cutting grass. He had two pairs of small incisions on the left index 

 finger, there was considerable swelling of the finger and back of the hand. 

 He had been to see the mali at the Station Hospital as he said he could 

 cure snake-bite, however the Hospital Assistant thought otherwise and- 

 brought him to me. A tight ligature was placed round the wrist, both 

 bites were deeply incised, crystals of permanganate of potash rubbed in, 

 and two tubes each containing 20 c. c. of antivenine were injected into 

 his forearm by Capt. W. R. Galway, R.A.M.C., and myself. Whilst the 

 injections were being given the man collapsed. His pulse being very rapid 

 and running, his body profusely wetted by a cold sweat. There was no 

 vomiting or diarrhoea. The man was put to bed and when seen in the 

 afternoon stated he felt fairly well except for severe burning pain in the 

 left arm. His evening temperature was 100*6, next morning it was normal, 

 after this his progress was satisfactory and in three days he returned to 

 duty. I enclose the skin of the snake which is, I think, a common hill 

 Viper of which I have caught several specimens. 



J. E. M. BOYD, Capt., R.A.M.C. 

 Silverton, Dalhousie, 25th October 1910. 

 [The skin is that of a Himalayan Viper Ancistrodon Jtimalayanus.—'Eins.~\ 



No. XXI.— THE FOOD OF A BULL-FROG. 



One of the most interesting facts of animal life is the variety of measures 

 adopted by animals to ward off their enemies. The familiar Bag- worm or 

 Lictor-insect, the caterpillar of a Psychid moth which forms a case of 

 Babool spines bound close together like the fasces of the Lictors of ancient 

 Rome, may be supposed to have hit upon an effective plan to protect itself, 

 but one was discovered within the stomach of a frog which I dissected at 

 the Poona Agricultural College before half a dozen persons. The spines 

 were about three-fourths of an inch in length with the sharp points intact. 

 The frog was a good sized female and besides the Psychid larva there were 

 several small fresh-water shrimps. 



H. M. CHIBBER. 



Agricultural College, Poona, October 1910. 



No. XXII.— FISHING IN BURMA. 



With regard to Mr. Adam's query in Miscellaneous Note No. XXII in 

 Vol. X, No. 2, of the Journal, as to the Burmese name for the mahsir : — the 

 boatmen I have employed while fishing in the Irrawady in the neighbour- 

 hood of Myitkyina use the names Nga Shu, Nga Dauk and Nga Ni for the 



