Part 11

Pope, Clifford H., Snakes Alive and How They Live, Viking Press, New York, 1942.

Klauber, L. M., Rattlesnakes, Their Habits, Life Histories, and Influence on Mankind, 2 vol., University of California Press, Berkeley, 1956.

Cowles, R. B., and Bogert, C. M., “Observation on the California Lyre Snake, Trimorphoden vandenburghi, Klauber. With notes on the Effectiveness of Its Venom,” Copeia, July 16, 1935.

Stahnke, Herbert L., Scorpions, Arizona State University Bookstore, Tempe, Arizona, 1949.

Loeb, Leo, and collaborators, The Venom of Heloderma, Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1913.

PUBLICATIONS YOU MAY WISH TO READ

Comstock, John Henry: “The Spider Book,” Comstock Publishing Co. Inc., Ithaca, N. Y., 1948.

Klauber Laurence M.: “Rattlesnakes, Their Habits, Life Histories, and Influence on Mankind,” 2 volumes, University of California Press, Berkeley, 1956.

Minton, Sherman A. Jr.: “Snakebite,” Scientific American, p. 114, January, 1957.

Shannon, Federick A.: “Comments on the Treatment of Reptile Poisoning in the Southwest,” reprinted from Southwestern Medicine, Volume XXXIV, No. 10, October, 1953.

Stahnke, Herbert L.: “Scorpions,” Poisonous Animals Research Laboratory, Tempe, Arizona, 1956.

Stahnke, Herbert L.: “The Treatment of Venomous Bites and Stings,” Poisonous Animals Research Laboratory, Tempe, Arizona, 1958.

INDEX

A About deserts and poisons 1 Acknowledgements vii Ants 17-19 Aphonopelma 13 Apis mellifera 20 Arizona coral snake 24-25 Arizona mountain kingsnake 24-25 Assassin bug 14 Avicularia 13-14

B Back-fanged snakes 30 Banded gecko 35 Bees 17, 19, 21-22 Bellows bug 14 Black-headed snake 30 Black widow spider 7-10 Bombidae 16 Brown house spider 10 Brown recluse spider 10-12 Brown spider 10 Bumblebee 17, 19

C Centipede 2-3 Centruroides 4-7 Chacho 36-37 Child-of-the-Earth 36-37 Coleonyx variegatus 35 Conenose bug 14-17 Coral king snake 24-25 Coral snake 24-25 Crotalus 25

D Desert, a definition 1 Desert hairy scorpion 5 Desert scientists vii Deserts of the United States (map) viii Dugesiella 13

E Eremobates 36

F Fiddleback spider 10 Formicidae 17

G Gecko 35 Giant desert centipede 2-3 Gila monster 31-33

H Hadrurus hirsutus 4 Harmless creatures 34 Heloderma 31 Honeybee 17, 20-22 Hornet 17, 19 Horned rattlesnake 26-27 Hymenoptera 17 Hypsiglena 30

I Insecticides vii

J Jerusalem cricket 36-37

K Kissing bug 14

L Latrodectus mactans 7 Lizard 31-32, 35 Lycosa 13 Lyre snake 30

M Mexican vine snake 30 Mountain kingsnake 24-25 Micruroides euryxanthus 24 Mutillidae 17

N Niña de la tierra 36-37

O Oxybelis 30