Venoms; venomous animals and antivenomous serum-therapeutics . : Colombia. (13) E. coraUinus (The Coral Snake).—Scales in 15 rows ;179—231 ventrals ; 30—47 subcaudals ; 1 + 1 temporals. Colour : Body with black annuli, separated by red interspacesedged with yellow ; head bluish-black ; temples yellow ; a blue linefrom behind the eye to the lower jaw ; tail white. Total length, 790 millimetres ; tail 70. Habitat : Tropical South America and Lesser Antilles (, St. Vincent, Martinique). (14) E. hcmprichii.—Scales in 15 rows ; 168—181 ventrals ;22—29 subcaudals ; 1 + 1 temporals. Colour:
Venoms; venomous animals and antivenomous serum-therapeutics . : Colombia. (13) E. coraUinus (The Coral Snake).—Scales in 15 rows ;179—231 ventrals ; 30—47 subcaudals ; 1 + 1 temporals. Colour : Body with black annuli, separated by red interspacesedged with yellow ; head bluish-black ; temples yellow ; a blue linefrom behind the eye to the lower jaw ; tail white. Total length, 790 millimetres ; tail 70. Habitat : Tropical South America and Lesser Antilles (, St. Vincent, Martinique). (14) E. hcmprichii.—Scales in 15 rows ; 168—181 ventrals ;22—29 subcaudals ; 1 + 1 temporals. Colour: Black, with red or yellow annuli, a broad annulusbetween the narrow ones ; occiput, upper lip, and temples length, 720 millimetres ; tail (: Guianas, Colombia, Peru. (15) E. /sf/H<f//«.—Scales in 15 rows ; 207—221 ventrals; 21—28subcaudals. Colour : Body with black annuli broader than the interspaces,disposed in sets; interspaces red and yellow; snout and occiputblack. THE PIxIXCHAL SPECIES OF roiSONOrS SNAKES 10a. Fig. 66.—Elaps fitlvius (The Harlequin Snake, or Coral Snake). (After L. Stejncgcr.) 106 VENOMS Total length, 430 millimetres : tail : Peru. (16) E. dlssolencus.— Scales in 15 rows; 200 ventrals : 19 snb-caiidals. Coloration as in foregoing length, 1,070 millimetres ; tail : Venezuela. (17) E. fulvius (Harlequin, or Coral Snake, fig. 06).—Scales in15 rows ; 180—287 ventrals ; 30—59 subcandals. Colour : Body with black, red, and yellow annuli ; tail withblack and yellow annuli ; snout black. Total length, 990 millimetres ; tail 85. Habitat : Eastern North America, from Southern Virginia, theOhio River, and the Missouri to the Kio Grande, Mexico, CentralAmerica. (18) ^. ^),s/y(7—Scales in 15 rows; 188—214 ventrals ; 32—47subcaudals. Colour: Body with alternate black and brown annuli, and 48—52narrow yellow rings ; head black, blotched with length, 495 mill
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