CEEASTES VIPERA. 
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Measurements &c. (in millim.) of C. vipera, Hasselq. & Linn. 
Sex. 
Total 
length. 
Tail. 
Ventrals. 
Anal. 
Caudale. 
Scales. 
Upper 
labials. 
Labials 
below eye. 
Scales 
between 
labials 
and eye 
Locality. 
3 
6 
225 
236 
30 
26 
108 
109 
1 
1 
25 
20 
25 
25 
12 
L. 13 
E.12 
5, 6, & 7 
5, 6, & 7 
3 
4 
Eastern desert between Suez, 
and Ismailia. 
6 
226 
22 
111 
1 
21 
25 
11 
6& 7 
3 
„ » 
<3 
260 
20 
117 
1 
22 
25 
L. 12 
E. 13 
6&7 
4 
,i 
2 
270 
22 
113 
1 
22 
25 
12 
L. 5&6 
E. 5, 6, & 7 
3 
., 
S 
241 
25 
110 
1 
26 
25 
11 
5&6 
L. 4 
E.3 
Desert west of Suez Canal. 
6 
345 
30 
119 
1 
22 
25 
12 
6, 7, & 8 
4 
Desert, Gizeh. 
c? 
270 
109 
1 
25 
11 
5&6 
3 
» 
tJ 
270 
30 
116 
1 
23 
25 
11 
L. 4, 5, & 6 
E. 5&6 
3 
Desert, Abu Roash. 
<J 
260 
29 
112 
1 
23 
25 
12 
L. 6, 7, & 8 
E. 5, 6. & 7 
3 
„ 
(J 
225 
26 
117 
1 
26 
27 
L. 12 
B. 11 
6&7 
3 
Beni Hassan. 
6 
315 
32 
114 
1 
23 
25 
12 
5&6 
4 
Neighbourhood of Cairo. 
2 
308 
23 
118 
1 
20 
25 
11 
5&6 
4 
X » 
6 
320 
37 
112 
1 
25 
25 
13 
5& 6 
4 
» II 
6 
322 
29 
113 
1 
23 
25 
11 
5, 6, & 7 
4 
>> !, 
3 
306 
34 
113 
1 
23 
25 
L. 12 
E. 11 
6&7 
4 
,, „ 
2 
282 
28 
116 
1 
25 
25 
12 
5&6 
4 
.. 
Europe, and that quantities were exported to Venice. This drug was known to the 
ancients as theriaca or teriaca. One of its most esteemed actions was that of an antidote 
to snake-poison and to poisons in general. Prosper Alpinus states that during his 
residence in Egypt (1581-1586) the physicians of that country were making viper-pills 
from the flesh of Cerastes comutus. 
