Venoms; venomous animals and antivenomous serum-therapeutics . ips white, and one or two dark angular streakson the head ; chin and throat yellowish ; belly black, with trans-verse series of white or grey dots. No sexual differences incoloration. Total length from 420—500 millimetres; tail 50—55. As regards the distinctive characters of these various snakes, and of tliemajority of those that we shall describe in this book, we ]ia\e followed the state-ments in the Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History),vol. iii., by George Albert Boulenger, (London : Printed by o


Venoms; venomous animals and antivenomous serum-therapeutics . ips white, and one or two dark angular streakson the head ; chin and throat yellowish ; belly black, with trans-verse series of white or grey dots. No sexual differences incoloration. Total length from 420—500 millimetres; tail 50—55. As regards the distinctive characters of these various snakes, and of tliemajority of those that we shall describe in this book, we ]ia\e followed the state-ments in the Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History),vol. iii., by George Albert Boulenger, (London : Printed by order of theTrustees, i896.) THE riUMUAL SlIAlKS OP roISONOVS SXAKES 25 Habitat : South-east France (Basses-Alpes); Italy (Abruzzi) ;Istria ; Mountains of Bosnia ; Plains of Lower Austria ; Hungary(environs of Buda-Pesth). Yipera berus [Covduoh Viper, or Adder). Snout rounded, short and truncate ; pupil vertically elongate ;vertical diameter of the eyes equal to or greater than the distanceseparating them from the mouth ; frontal and parietal shields dis-.


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