Excerpt from Notes on the Venomous Snakes From the Islands of Formosa and Riu Kiu Rostral, scarcely visible fifom above internasals nearly entering nostrils; nostril in posterior edge of a: large nasal, followed by a somewhat smaller 1.3ostnasal prefrontals large, broadly in contact; with supraoculars; frontal shorter than its distance from tip of snout, slightly shorter than parietals; one large, preocular in contact with postnasal, pie-frontal, supraocular, and third supralabial; two postwlars; temporals 1 1; 7 supralabials, ' third and fourth entering eye, first and second small, third nearly as large as fifth, sixth and seventh largest, subequal, in size; 6 lower labials, four in con-tact with anterior chin-shields, fourth very large posterior eh-in shields nearly as long as the, anterior; 13 rows of smooth scale; 263 ventrals; anal divided; 28 pairs of subcaudals. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
