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by Linne, in Hasselquist's Iter Palestinum (1762, p. 314). The 

 species was next mentioned by Laurenti in his Synopsis ReptiUura 

 (1768, p. 105). He re-named the snake, basing his Aspis cleopatrae 

 directly upon Linne's description just cited, and in this new genus 

 Aspis, which curiously enough he based on such characters as 

 "Corpus nitidum squammis planis appressis, nee carinatis," he 

 included three additional species. His second species was Aspis 

 cobella, based on Seba, Thesaurus, H, pi. 2, fig. 5, a South American 

 species, now included in Liophis. The third species was Aspis 

 variegata, based on Seba, 1. c, H, pi. 2, fig. 8. This species I 

 believe is unidentifiable. The fourth, Aspis intestinalis, is based 

 on the same plate of Seba's, fig. 7, and is currently referred to the 

 genus Doliophis, which was founded by Girard in 1857 for Cantor's 

 Flaps flaviceps, which is a synonym of Boie's Elaps bivirgatus. It 

 would thus seem that, since Wagler's name Cerastes is available for 

 the first of these species called Aspis, the fourth replaces Doliophis, 

 the type species being intestinalis by elimination. 



