Venoms; venomous animals and antivenomous serum-therapeutics . (6) Distira. (Pig. 81.) Poison-fangs large, followed by 4—10 grooved teeth. Headlarger than in Hydrophis ; body more or less elongate ; scales onthe anterior part of the body imbricate; ventrals more or lessdistinct, and always very small. The species of this genus, 18 in number according to the BritishMuseum Catalogue, are found in the Indian and Pacific Oceans,from the Persian Gulf to Japan and New Caledonia. The most important are :— D. ornata.—Uniform blackish-olive on the back, whitish on thebelly. Total length, 1,200 millimet
Venoms; venomous animals and antivenomous serum-therapeutics . (6) Distira. (Pig. 81.) Poison-fangs large, followed by 4—10 grooved teeth. Headlarger than in Hydrophis ; body more or less elongate ; scales onthe anterior part of the body imbricate; ventrals more or lessdistinct, and always very small. The species of this genus, 18 in number according to the BritishMuseum Catalogue, are found in the Indian and Pacific Oceans,from the Persian Gulf to Japan and New Caledonia. The most important are :— D. ornata.—Uniform blackish-olive on the back, whitish on thebelly. Total length, 1,200 millimetres ; tail 130. Habitat: From the Mouth of Persian Gulf, and the coasts ofIndia and Ceylon to New Guinea, and North Australia. THE PRINCIPAL SPECIES OF POISONOUS SNAKES ]37 D. subcincta.—Trunk with 41 broad dark cross-bands, about asbroad as the interspaces, not extending downwards to the middleof the side ; a series of small roundish, blackish spots along thelower part of the sides. Total length, 1,070 millimetres : tail 100. Hahitdt : Indian Fig. 81.—Skull of Distira.(After G. A. Boulenger, op. cit.) D. cyanocincta.—Greenish-olive above, with dark olive or blackcross-bars or annuli, broader on the back, and sometimes joined bya black band along the belly, or yellowish, with a black vertebralstripe and a few bars on the neck. Total length, 1,-500 -millimetres ; tail 140. Habitat: From the Persian Gulf and the coasts of India toChina, Japan, and Papuasia. D. jerdonii.—Olive above, yellowish on the belly, with blackcross-bands forming complete rings in young and half-grown 138 VENOMS specimens ; a black spot sometimes present between each pair ofannuli. Total length, 910 millimetres; tail 100. Habitat : Bay of Bengal, Straits of Malacca, Borneo. (7) Enhydris. Two large poison-fangs, and 2—4 small feebly grooved short and stout ; scales hexagonal or squarish, juxtaposed,disappearing almost completely on the belly. E. curtns.—Above with dark tr
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