. The poisonous terrestrial snakes of our British Indian dominions, including Ceylon, and how to recognize them; with symptoms of snake poisoning and treatment. Snakes; Snakes. THE POISONOUS SNAKES Ofc' INDIA. 53. his presence. The bitten hand swelled up at once, but by evening had much reduced, and the following day the swelling had almost entirely disappeared. JDimensions.—Grows to 2 J feet. Colour.—Foliage-green, uniform, or with black blotchings. A black streak behind the eye. Belly uniform greenish or yellowish. LACHESIS ANAMALLENSIS—The Anamailay Viper. —Supraocular divid
. The poisonous terrestrial snakes of our British Indian dominions, including Ceylon, and how to recognize them; with symptoms of snake poisoning and treatment. Snakes; Snakes. THE POISONOUS SNAKES Ofc' INDIA. 53. his presence. The bitten hand swelled up at once, but by evening had much reduced, and the following day the swelling had almost entirely disappeared. JDimensions.—Grows to 2 J feet. Colour.—Foliage-green, uniform, or with black blotchings. A black streak behind the eye. Belly uniform greenish or yellowish. LACHESIS ANAMALLENSIS—The Anamailay Viper. —Supraocular divided, and co-existing with this, a subocular not touch- ing the 3rd labial. Supplementary char- acters. —Internasals. — A pair separated by a small scale. Siipraocular divided. Kasal not vinited with 1st labial; small scales may or may not be intercalated between it and the 2nd labial. Suho cular. — Not touching the 3rd la- bial. 2nd labial, with a furrow in its upper part directed into the Fig. 36.—Lachesis anamallensis (nat. size), loreal pit. Scales.—Anterior, 21; midbody, usually 21 (rarely 19) ; posterior, 16 or 17. Distribution.—Confined to the Western G-hats and hilly regions south of the Krishna Eiver, where it is quite common, at altitudes ranging between 2,000 to 7,000 feet.* Poison.—Rarely, if ever, fatal as far as we know (see Part II, page 123). Jerdon has known several cases of bite, but none proved fatal. —Grows to Si Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Wall, Frank, 1868-. Bombay, Bombay Natural History Society
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