not a naturalist, ib.;

contemporary literature, 99;

quotations from, 100.

Shaler, Prof., U.S., on natural selection, 308.

Shell -breaker, ‘Sunkerchor’, 63.

Shields, 316 (see scales, epidermis).

Shortt, Dr., of Madras, gives milk to snakes, 87;

approves of alcoholic remedies, 550;

claims originality with liquor potassæ, 552.

Silliman’s Journal of Science, 248.

Skeleton, of cobra, 31;

of jaws, 349.

Skin, shedding of (see integument, epidermis).

Sleeping after meals, 40;

with open eyes, 64, 169, 421.

Sloane, Sir Hans: ‘Inchantments’, etc., 281;

experiments, 370.

Sloughing of lizards, 331, 481 (see epidermis).

Smith, Dr. Andrew: egg-eaters, 66, et seq.;

his work, 230;

the Bucephali, 407, et seq.

Smith, a Mr., Coluber smithii, 416.

Smith, Captain John, the rattells, 272.

Smith, Prof. Lawrence, Pres. of the Am. Ass. (see Convention on Snakes), 485.

Smith, Sydney J., Esq., U.S., testimony, 438.

Smithsonian Contributions, 364.

Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., 488.

‘Snakes of Australia’ (Krefft), 154, 172.

Snakes, Lectures on (see Huxley, Ruskin).

Snakes: a home for, 61, 592;

groups of, 53;

their place in nature, 56;

length of life, 56;

their uses, 57;

cruel packing of, 169;

powers of (see constriction, deglutition, dentition, fangs, glottis, hibernation, progression, respiration, teeth, etc.);

by name:

ABOMA, 454;

acanthophis, 172;

adder, 49, 172, 392, 410, 424, 471;

aglyphodontes, 347;

amphisbœna, 44, 91, 174, 189, 190, 353;

anaconda, 112, 210, 228, 232, 441, 454, et seq.;

ancistrodon, 11, 495, 571, 572;

anguis 48, 54, 89, 93, 171, 183, 187, 279, 346, 353, 410, 452, et seq., 471;

anholodontes, 347;

anodon, 66, 343, 347, 414;

apistoglyphes, 347;

aproterodontes, 347;

asp, 268;

atropos, atrox, 374, 422;

avusamans, 230.

BLACK s., 6, 63, as ‘racer’, 180, 182, 199;

‘Blackie’, 458, et seq.;

blauser, 152, et seq.;

blindworm, 44 (see anguis);

boa, 35, 47, 111, 134, 157, 183, 220, 228, 353, 435, 584, et seq.;

boiginininga, boiguira, 277;

boicinininpeba, boycininga, 430;

boodon, 347;

boomslange, 407;

boschmeester, 420;

bothrops, 383, 385, 416, 422, 426, et seq.;

brachyura, 177, 374;

broad-scaled s.,423;

Bucephalus, 407;

bull s., 155, et seq.;

‘bull-killer’, 229;

bungarus, 349, 357, 501;

bushmaster, 176, 387, 422, et seq.

‘CALICO’ s., 410;

callophis, 537;

camoudi, 420, 429, 454;

Cape adder, 149;

capra capella, 190;

carpet s., 10, 424;

cascavel, 272, 277, 423;

cascobel, 397;

caudalis, 374;

caudisona, 275, 388;

cecilia, 353;

cenchris, 175, 176, 224, 226, 562, 577;

cerastes, 168, 315, 320, 324, 351, 389;

chicken s., 439;

chilobothrus, 63, 93, 186, 437, 440, et seq., 449, et seq.;

‘Cleo’, Cleopatra, 15, 515, 525;

clotho, 148, 374, 422;

clothonia, 85;

cobra, 13, 33, 60, 87, 181, 190, 268, 327, 349, 354, 363, 390, 401, 423, 442, 502, 511, 517, 537, 543, 560, 578;

cœnicoussi, 420;

coluber, 27, 47, 48, 52, 63, 74, 85, 91, 139, 180, 208, 353, 414, 437, 442, 495, 500, 567;

colubri, 434, 449;

colubrines, 178, 316, 318;

constrictor, 14, 39, 111, 135, 141, 178, 183, 198, et seq., 202, 213, 232, 247, 258, 267, 327, 438, 584;

cophias, 422;

copper-head, 176, 289, 392, 571;

coral, 10;

coronella, 83, 424, 435;

corral, 423;

counacouchi, counicouchi, 417;

couroucoucou, 419, 429;

courracouchi, 421;

craspedocephalus, 388, 396, a seq., 421, 423, 427;

crebo, cribo, 177;

crotalidæ, 176, 270, 302, 318, 355, 357, 359, 362, 368, 381, et seq., 397, 494, 503;

crotalus, 162, 269, et seq., 353, 375, 387, 421, 426, 495, 501, 519, 534, 541, 544, 553, 573, 574;

crotalophorus, 292, 388, 393;

cucurijuba, curucucu, 429;

cucuriù, cucuriubù, 454;

curucucu, 428;

cylindrophis,188;

cynodon, 347.

DABOIA, 349, 365, 407, 436;

dasypeltis, 414;

deaf adder, 424;

death adder, 172, 180;

deer-swallower, 229;

deirodon, 67, 72, 412, 415;

dendrophidæ, 218, 408;

diamond s., 384, 423;

domina serpentum, 277;

dryadidæ, 218;

dryophidians, 325;

dumb rattlesnake, 392;

durissus, 366.

ECACOATL, 279;

echis, 150, 320, 351, 366, 389, 424, 440, 537, 554, 580;

elaphis, 20, 185, 202, et seq., 336;

elapidæ, 39, 186, 338, 353, 355, 362, 422, 430, 535, 548, 567;

el trago venado, 454;

enhydrina, 237;

epicratis, 147, 203, 440;

eryx, 220;

eunectes, 456 (see anaconda);

eutania, 495.

FER-DE-LANCE, 319, 388, 423;

flammon, 419;

four-rayed s. (see elaphis);

furia, 422.

GARTER s., 162, 440;

geoptyas, 38;

glyphodon, 347;

gokurrah, 425;

guiarranpiaquana, 430;

great sea-ser., 221, 247, et seq.;

green mamba, 154.

HALYS, 386;

hamadryad, 181, 333, 352, 387, 390, 442, 503, 567;

herpetum, 326;

heterodon, 152, 347, 350, 395, 401, 403, et seq., 407, 409, 422;

hexacornis, 325;

hoacoatl, 277;

holodontes, 347;

homalopsidæ, 224, 228, 234;

hoop s., 184;

hopplocephalus, 184, 423, et seq.;

horn s., horned v., 224;

horse-shoe s., 137;

hydrinus, 225, 243;

hydrophidæ, 169, 222, 232, 318, 348, 350, 355.

IARARACA, iararacuassa, 396, 429, 535;

ibibo, ibiboco, ibiboboca, 429, 430;

ibiracua, 396, 538;

iffulu, 230;

isodon, 347;

isodontiens, 347.

JACULUS, 196;

jacumama, 454;

Jamaica boa, 92, 119 (see chilobothrus);

jararaca, 10, 119, 359, 369, 402, 417, 421, 426, et seq.;

jarraracca, jararacussu, 396, et seq., 400, 406, 423, 429;

jararacucu, 369;

jararacpeba, 430, et seq.;

jeboia, 423.

KALA-SAMP, 425;

kamoudi, 429;

keautiah, 425;

king-snake, 177;

krait, 349;

kunikusi, 421.

LACERTINES, 14, 138, 570;

lachesis, 176, 357, 359, 365, 374, 387, 401, 416, 417, et seq., 421, et seq., 426, et seq., 556;

langaha, 325;

liophis, 332, 407, 410;

‘Lizzie’, 89, 470, et seq.;

lophophrys, 325;

lycodon, 347, 350.

MAMBA, 154;

mangeur de rats, 228;

matatoro, 229, 454;

massasauga, 393;

megæra, 422;

mocassin, 7, 10, 227, 410, 424, 439, 571 (see Tropidontus);

morelia, 384.

NAG SAMP, 425;

naja, 154, 328, 425 (see cobra), 580;

nasicornis, 224, 317, et seq.;

natrix, 52, 138 (see ring-s., Tropidontus).

OGMODON, 347;

oligodon, 66, 343, 347, 414;

ophiophagus, 62, 181, 333, 390, 422, 425, 442, 565 (see Elaps, Hamadryad).

PASSERITA, 325;

pelagic ss., 233, 235, et seq.;

pelamis, 238, et seq.;

pelias, 495, 505;

pilot-s., 155, 182, 213;

pine-s., 93, 155;

pit-vs., 176 (see crotalidæ);

pituophis, 151, 156, 217;

platurus, 243;

prickly-s., 175;

proteroglyphes, 347;

psamophis, 152;

pseudechis, 548, 560;

ptyas, 85, 213, 332, 348, 349 (see rats.);