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COLUBER SAVRIT A.— Limceus. 



Plate XVI. 



Characters. Head oval, elongated; snout prolonged, though rather rounded 

 at the apex; body long, slender; tail very long, thin, pointed at tip; colour, above 

 dusky brown, trilineate, vertebral line pale yellow, often tinged with green; lateral 

 lines clouded yellowish-white; abdomen pale yellow, tinged with green, imma- 

 culate. PI. 165-167— Sc. 117-121. 



SrNONTMES. Riband Snake, Catesby, Carolina, &c. vol. ii. p. 50, pi. 1. 

 Coluber saurita, Linn., Syst. Nat, torn. i. p. 385. 

 Coluber saurita, Gmel., ed. Syst. Nat. Lin., torn. i. part iii. p. 1109. 

 Le saurite, Lacip., Hist. Nat. des Serp., torn. ii. p. 308. 

 Coluber saurita, Latr., Hist. Nat. Rept., torn. iv. p. 178. 

 Coluber saurita, Baud., Hist. Nat. des Rept, torn. viii. p. 104, pi. 81, fig. 2. 

 Coluber saurita, Shaio, Gen. Zool., vol. iii. part ii. p. 532. 

 Coluber proximus. Say, Long's Exp. to Rocky Mountains, vol. i. p. 187. 

 Coluber saurita, Fitz., Neue Class der Rept., p. 53. 

 Coluber saurita, Harl., Med. and Phys. Res., p. 115. 

 Coluber proximus, Harl., Loe. Cit, p. 116. 

 Riband Snake at the south. Swift Garter Snake at the north, Vulgo. 



Description. The head is ovoid, long, and rather large in proportion to the 

 body, with the snout somewhat prolonged, though rounded at its apex; the 

 vertical plate is large, elongated, and hexagonal; the superior orbitals are of 

 equal length with the vertical, quadrilateral, broader behind, and projecting 

 slightly over the eye; the occipitals are irregularly triangular, with all their 

 angles rounded, and are broadest behind; the frontal plates are broad and 



