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COLUBER PUNCTATUS.—Linneus. 
Plate XVIII. 
Ciaracters. [Head large, flattened; body above bluish-black; abdomen orange 
colour, with three longitudinal rows of spots; beneath the tail yellow, immaculate. 
Pl, 132. Se. 49. 
Syyonymes. Coluber punctatus, Linnzus, Syst. Nat., vol. i. p. 376. 
Little Black and Red Snake, Edwards, Glean. Nat. Hist., vol. iii. p. 289. 
Another small snake, Edwards, Glean. Nat. Hist., vol. ii. p. 291. 
La Ponctuée, Lacépede, Hist. Nat. des Serp., tom. ii. p. 287. 
Coluber punctatus, Zatreille, Hist. Nat. des Rept., tom. iv. part ii. p. 136. 
Coluber punctatus, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. Lin., vol. i. pars iii. p. 1089. 
Coluber punctatus, Daudin, Hist. Nat. des Rept., tom. vii. p. 178. 
Coluber torquatus, Shaw, Gen. Zool., vol. iii. p. 553. 
Natrix punctatus, Merrem, Versuch eines Syst. der Amphib., p. 131, spec. 162. 
Natrix Edwardsii, Merrem, Versuch eines Syst. der Amphib., p. 136, spec. 195. 
Homolosoma punctata, Wagler, Natiirlich. Syst. der Amphib., p. 191. 
Spilotes punctatus, Swainson, Lard. Cyclop. Rept., p. 364. 
Coluber punctatus, Harlan, Med. and Phys. Res., p. 117. 
Calamaria punctata, Schlegel, Phys. des Serp., tom. ii. p. 39. 
Description. The head is rather small, flattened, and rounded at the snout. 
The vertical plate is sub-triangular, with its basis forward and joined to the 
frontal; the superior orbital are quadrilateral and elongated, with their outer 
margins projecting but slightly. The occipital are irregularly triangular, broadest 
in front, and joined to the vertical, the superior orbital and superior posterior 
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