CONTENTS. 



PART I. 

 The Identification of Indian Land Snakes. 



Inteoductoey Remaeks 



Key to distinguish the Poisonous Snakes 



Geoup 1. — Sea Snakes 



Geoup 2 .—The Kraits 



Geoup 3. — Cobras and Coral Snakes 

 Geoup 4. — The Pit Vipers .. . 

 Geoup 5. — Pitless Vipers ... 



PART II. 



I. — Snake Bite AND Snake PoisoNUSG ... ... ... 69 



II. — Complicating Effects of Feight ... ... ... 69 



III. — Snake Poisons, with Analysis of the Action of 

 THEIR Constituent Toxins, Symptoms of Poisoning 

 AND Illustrative Cases in the Human Subject — 



A— Cobra 76 



B. — Hamadryad or King Cobra ... ... 87 



G. — Common Krait ... ... ... ... 89 



D.— Banded Krait 95 



U. — Daboia or Russell's Viper ... ... 99 



F. — Saw-scaled Viper 109 



G. — Common Himalayan Viper ... ... 117 



ff. — Large Spotted Viper ... ... ... 119 



I.— Green Pit Viper 122 



/. — Anamallay Viper ... ... ... ... 123 



IV. — ■ Uncertainty of the Effects of Snake Bite ... 124 



