Dried venom. The LD50 values were calculated by probits 195 (Finney, 1971), using the BioStat® software (AnalySoft). In the abstract of the paper "an intravenous LD50 of 0.07 mg/kg in mice" is mentioned, but that is a typo as confirmed by the author. The correct value is 0.15 as stated in Table2.