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Genus of American Solenoglpha, or poisonous snakes, including A. con tortrix, the highland copperhead of the South. It has a loreal plate and 23 rows of scales. When cold weather comes, several bunch together. The female bears seven young alive. They are ferocious. A. piscivorous is the Water Moccasin of the South, more dreaded than the Rattlesnake, in that it grows to a large Moccasin Snake ( An cist rod on con tortrix). size (4 ft.), is very poisonous, attacks at the slightest opportunity, and strikes without warning. In Brazil is an allied form, Trigonocephalus , from whose bite many laborers die annually. Another genus, Caudisona , includes the Ma asauga or Black Rattler of Ohio and adjacent region. It has rudiméntary rattles, and lives in the holes of the Prairie-dog.