Venoms; venomous animals and antivenomous serum-therapeutics . ta.—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 pai
Venoms; venomous animals and antivenomous serum-therapeutics . ta.—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 transverse bands, broadest in themiddle ; end of tail black. Total length, 750 millimetres ; tail 75. Habitat : Coasts of India and Fig. 82.—Enhydrina valakadien (syn. E. bengalensis). THE FEIN GIF AL SFECIES OF FOISONOUS SNAKES ]:59 (8 Enhydrina. Two large poison-fangs, followed by 4 solid non-grooved moderately elongate ; scales imbricate; ventrals distinct butvery small. E. valakadien (syn. E. hengalensis; fig. 82).—Colour olive orgrey, with black transverse bands, usually less distinct in the adult;sides and belly whitish.
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