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LEPTOPHIS SAVRITVS.—Linn^us. 



Plale IV. 



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

 rounded at the apex; body very long, slender; tail very long, thin, pointed at the 

 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, immaculate. PI. 165-167. Sc. 117-121. 



Synontmes. Riband Snake, Catesby, Carol., &c., vol. ii. p. 50, pi. 1. 

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

 Coluber saurita, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. Lin., torn. i. pars iii. p. 1109. 

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

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

 Coluber saurita, Daudin, Hist. Nat. des Rept., torn. vii. p. 104, pi. SI, fig. 2. 

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

 Natrix saurita, Merrem, Versuch eines Syst. der Amph., p. 122. 

 Coluber proximus, Say, Long's Exped. to Rock. Mount., vol. i. p. 187. 

 Coluber saurita, Fitzingei', Neue Class der Rept., p. 53. 

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

 Coluber proximus, Harlan, loc. cit, p. 116. 

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



Description. The head is ovoid, very 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 orbital are of equal 

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

 over the eye. The occipital are irregularly triangular, with all their angles 



