84 COLUBER PUNCTATUS. 
others in Spilotes. For the present I shall leave it in that of Coluber, where it 
was first placed by Linneeus, from the type of which it differs only in having the 
head a little shorter, though the plates are the same in number, and nearly in 
form, the neck a little less contracted, the tail shorter, &c., all of which might be 
useful in settling a species, but cannot determine a genus. 
