592 SNAKES. 



horridiim. In a communication to Knowledge (Sept. 29), 

 I ventured to call this the * Warty - skinned Lizard,' 

 in consequence of the confused accounts of it which 

 have appeared in print. There are several other warty- 

 skinned or ' tuberculous lizards.' The specific horridiis^ as 

 applied to the South American Crotalus, also signified its 

 terrible or dreadful character, and not the * horrid ' which 

 spectators apply indiscriminately to snakes and their 

 blankets. 



With the rapid advance of ophiology comes the splendid 

 new home for snakes which will shortly grace our Zoological 

 Gardens ; and in taking leave of my readers, I cannot offer 

 them a kinder wish than that their visits there to observe the 

 snakes will be productive to them of as much pleasure as 

 has been mine to describe them. 



