Dr. Russell, in his valuable treatise on Indian serpents, lias 
distinguished between the venomous and the harmless species, in 
the three genera of boa, coluber, and anguis: he has given an ac- 
curate description, and coloured engravings of forty-three of the 
most common serpents in Hindostan; experiments on the effects 
of their bite, and the several remedies applied; with observations 
on the apparatus provided by nature, for preparing and instilling 
their poison: he mentions, that a quantity of warm Madeira wine- 
taken internally, with an outward application of eau-de-luce on the 
punctures, was generally successful in curing the bite of the most 
venomous species: and that the medicine called the Tanjore-pill 
seemed to be equally efficacious. Dr. Russell further observes, 
that “ of forty-three serpents examined and described by him, 
seven only were found with poisonous organs: and upon com- 
paring the effects of the poison of five oriental serpents on brute 
animals, with those produced by the poison of the rattle-snake, 
and the European viper, it may in general be remarked, that they 
all produce morbid symptoms nearly similar; however much they 
may differ in the degree of their deleterious power, or in the ra- 
pidity of its operation. The bile of a rattle-snake in England, 
killed a dog in two minutes; the bite of the most pernicious snake 
in India was never observed to kill a dog in less than twenty-seven 
minutes.” 
It would be entering on too extensive a field to describe the 
character and beauty of the papilios, libellulse, scarabei, cicadae, 
cantharides, and other insects, which animate the Indian groves, 
and gardens throughout the day: and are succeeded by a variety 
