90 COLUBERSAURITA. 



General Remarks. The first account of this serpent may be seen in 

 Catesby's History of Carohna, &c.; where it is figured and described under the 

 name of Riband Snake; which it bears to the present time with us among all 

 classes of people. Linnaeus received it into the twelfth edition of the Systema 

 Naturae, and applied to it the specific name saurita, which has been universally 

 adopted by naturalists; nor can there be a doubt of his meaning, for his only 

 references are to Catesby and to Dr. Garden: although the number of subcaudal 

 scales he gives does not agree with my observation, yet this might have been 

 the result of accident in the specimen that he examined. 



