[Anatomo-pathological study of fatal cases of Malpolon monspessulana (Herman, 1809) (Reptilia, Colubridae) bitten in the head by Cerastes cerastes (L., 1758) (Reptilia, Viperidae)].

Two Malpolon monspessulana (Herman, 1809) were bitten in the head by Cerastes cerastes (L., 1758). The first specimen is fastly dead ten minutes after the bite. This short time does not permit us to point out the lesions by current technics, but only by autopsy two sting marks of C. cerastes poison fangs bites. The second specimen is dead eight hours after the bite, an anatomopathological study shows oedematous and haemorrhagico lesions of the conjunctive and striated muscular tissues. The visceral wound chiefly consists in a myocardic erythrodiapedesis congestion, oedematous areas and alveolar bleedings, a biliar overcharge with vascular degeneration of hepatic parenchyme and also degenerative and athrocytar lesions of epithelial cells of contorted ducts of kidney.