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Show FIND NEW VENOMOUS SNAKE Reptile Has Proved to Be "Consider-1 able of a Puzzle" to California Naturalist. A poisonous snake that reptllo ex- perts and nnturullstH lmvo so far been unable to classify, and which may bo of u new species, came Into the posses-1 slon of Ed Humbly and Jack Horn., Tho sniike wns caught by u Mexican ut ono of the road camps near Los Auge-, lcs. Oil. The snake has two fangs, ench about one-eighth of an Inch long. In an ' effort to determine whether or not the reptile Is poisonous It wns plared In i un Inclnsure with n white int. The I rat was bitten ami died lu convulsions ( shortly afterward. , The snake Is three and one-luilf feet I in length nnil olive green In color. Its color changes to a pale yellow when . It Is lingered and light brown mark-I mark-I lugs appear upon Its back. Contrary ' to other venomous snakes, It bus the ' double set of bcales that lire found nn harmless vurletles. The scales are ' smooth and It has extraordinarily long Jawbones. Its eyes are the round-pit-piled eyes of tho harmless snake, and It has only ono set of nostril). Its head Is of the same shape us Its harmless harm-less brothers. Its tall tapers to a line point and the snake itself differs In shape from other poisonous reptiles In that It Is slender rather than ihli-U-bodied. It strikes without colling and umves with great swiftness. While being ex- i milium! it ejected a stream of colorless j poison for ii distance of 17 Inclie.. Dr. Charles I,. IM arils. unttiralM for the public schools, Iir'IIiu-s tu ih,- belief that It may be related in tin ! vipers. "Until this time I have never known of n smooih-M'aled snake which wns polMUunts," he said. |