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CORONELLA DOLIATA.—Linneus. 
Plate XXIV. 
Cuaracters. Head small, flattened ‘above, with the snout rounded; neck 
slightly contracted; body elongated, rather slender; scarlet above, and marked 
with black rings, in pairs; between each pair is a white ring. Pl. 174. Se. 40. 
Synonymes. Coluber doliatus, Linnwus, Syst. Nat., tom. i. p. 379. 
Coluber doliatus, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. Lin., tom. i. pars iii. p. 
Natrix doliatus, Merrem, Versuch eines Syst. der Amphib., p. 129. 
Coronella coccinea, Schlegel, Phys. des Serp., tom. ii. p. 57, pl. ii. fig. 11. 
Description. The head is rather small, flattened above, with the snout rounded; 
the vertical plate is pentagonal, with an acute angle behind; the superior orbital 
are oblong-quadrilateral, broadest behind, and not projecting over the eye; the 
occipital are polygonal, and very large; the frontal are broad and pentagonal, 
narrowest externally, where they descend to join a tolerably large quadrilateral, 
loral plate. ‘The anterior frontal are also quadrilateral, smaller than the posterior, 
and broadest externally. The rostral plate is large, heptagonal, and concave 
below. There are two nasal plates, the posterior square, the anterior lunated 
behind for the nostril, which does not enter the posterior, but comes out at its 
anterior border. ‘There is a single anterior orbital plate, oblong, slightly concave 
behind, and two small, sub-round, posterior orbital. ‘The inferior wall of the orbit 
is made up of the third and fourth superior labial plates, of which there are seven. 
The nostrils are lateral, and near the snout. The eyes are small, the pupil 
reddish-grey and bright. The neck is but slightly contracted, and is covered 
with small, smooth, sub-hexagonal scales. The body is long, tolerably stout, and 
Vor. U.—14 
