Venoms; venomous animals and antivenomous serum-therapeutics . keeled, feebly imbricate, in 35 or 37 rows ; 200—230 ventrals;32—50 Fig. G.).—Lacliesis Innceolatus (Fer-dc-lancc of Martinique). (After Stejneger.) Colour yellow or pinkish on the back, with a series of largerhomboidal brown or black spots enclosing smaller light spots ;a black streak from the eye to the angle of the mouth. Total length, 1,995 millimetres ; tail 170. Hahitat: Central and Tropical South America. (2) L. hniceolafus (known as the Fer-de-lance in Martinique,and Jararacussu in Brazil; fig. 69).—Snout obtus
Venoms; venomous animals and antivenomous serum-therapeutics . keeled, feebly imbricate, in 35 or 37 rows ; 200—230 ventrals;32—50 Fig. G.).—Lacliesis Innceolatus (Fer-dc-lancc of Martinique). (After Stejneger.) Colour yellow or pinkish on the back, with a series of largerhomboidal brown or black spots enclosing smaller light spots ;a black streak from the eye to the angle of the mouth. Total length, 1,995 millimetres ; tail 170. Hahitat: Central and Tropical South America. (2) L. hniceolafus (known as the Fer-de-lance in Martinique,and Jararacussu in Brazil; fig. 69).—Snout obtuse, slightly turnedup; upper head-scales small, imbricate, more or less stronglykeeled, in 5—10 longitudinal series between the supraoculars,which are large; 7 or 8 supralabials. Scales in 23—33 rows, THE PBINCIPAL SPECIES OF POISONOUS SNAKES 113 sharply keeled : LsO—240 ventrals ; 46—70 subcaudals, all or thegreater part in two rows. Coloration very variable, grey, brown, yellow, olive, or reddish ;uniform or with more or less distinct dark spots, or cross-bands,or with dark triangles on the sides enclosing pale rhombs ; a da
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