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LEPTOPHIS.— 5e//. 



Genus Leptophis. — Characters. Head much elongated, sub-oval, narrow, 

 covered with plates, as in Coluber; loral plate single; one anterior orbital and 

 two posterior orbital plates; body long and very slender, covered with sub- 

 hexagonal carinated scales; tail very long. 



Remarks. The genus Leptophis was very properly separated by Mr. Bell from 

 that of Coluber, because of its extremely long and attenuated body, length and 

 slenderness of tail, breadth of abdominal plates, &c. &c. 



LEPTOPHIS JESTIWJS.—Lhm^us. 



Plate III. 



Characters. Head long, narrow, sub-oval, pointed in front, and covered with 

 plates; body and tail both very long, slender, above green, below yellowish-white; 

 scales carinated. PI. 160. Sc. 140. 



SrNONTMES. Green-snake, Cateshy, Carolina, &c., vol. ii. p. 57, pi. Ivii. 

 Coluber sestivus, Linnseics, Syst. Nat, vol. i. p. 387. 

 Coluber aestivus, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. Lin., vol. i. pars iii. p. 1114. 

 La verdatre, Lacepide, Hist, des Serp., torn. ii. p. 313. 

 Coluber ajstivus, Latreille, Hist, des Rept., torn. iv. p. 140. 

 Coluber ffistivus, Daudin, Hist. Nat. des. Rept., torn. vii. p. 101. 

 Coluber sestivus, Harlan, Med. and Phys. Res., p. 121. 

 Green-snake, Vulgo. 

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