106 REPTILES. 



Pale brown, with darker, black-edged large spots, extending 

 down on the paler belly. Scales smooth, in fifteen rows. 



a. Adult : very large specimen. Sine patria. From the Haslar 



Collection. 

 h. Adult. Sine patria. From the Haslar Collection. 



c. Adult. Pernambuco. 



d. Adult. Pernambuco. Presented by J. P. G. Smith, Esq. 



e. Half-grown : injured. Pernambuco. Presented by J. P. G. 



Smith, Esq. 

 /. Adult. Rio Janeiro. From the Haslar Collection. 

 g. Adult. Brazils. Presented by J. S. Bowerbank, Esq. 

 h. Half-grown. Brazils. Presented by Sir C. Stuart. 

 I. Young : bad state. Para. Presented by J. P. G. Smith, Esq. 

 k. Adult. Brazils. Presented by W. F. Evans, Esq. 



1. Young. Brazils. Presented by W. F. Evans, Esq. 

 m. Adult : bad state. South America. 



n. Young. South America. From the Haslar Collection. 

 0. Young. South America. From the Haslar Collection. 



2. CORYPHODON CONSTRICTOR. 



Black Snake, Catesby, Hist. Nat. Carol, ii. pi. 48, with fig. ; 

 Lacep. Hist. Nat. Serp. ii. p. 309. Coluber constrictor, Linn. 

 Syst. Nat. edit, xii., not edit. x. ; Shaw, Gen. Zool. p. 464 ; 

 Merr. Tent. p. 108; Latr. Hist. Nat. Rept. iv. p. 178; Daud.Hist. 

 Nat. Rept. vi. p. 402 ; Schleg. Ess. pi. 5. f. 3, 4. Coluber flavi- 

 ventris. Say, Exped. Rocky Mount, pp. 167, 337; Holbr. N. Amer. 

 Herpet. iii. pi. 2 (bad). Bascanion constrictor, Baird Sf Girard, 

 Catal. p. 93. Coryphodon constrictor, Dum. Sf Bibr. vii. p. 183. 



Above shining black, beneath blackish ash, throat whitish. 

 Scales smooth, in seventeen rows ; posterior oculars two. 



a. Adult. New Orleans. From Mr. Cuming's Collection. 



b. Half-grown. St. Domingo. From M. Salle's Collection. 



c. Adult : greatly injured. North America. 



d. Adult : not good state. North America. Presented by the 



College of Surgeons. 



3. Coryphodon testaceus. 



Coluber testaceus. Say, in Long's Exped. Rocky Mount, ii. 

 p. 48 ; Harlan, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sc. Philad. v. 1827, p. 348, 

 and Med. Sf Phys. Res. 1835, p. 1 13 ; Holbr. N. Amer. Herpet. iii. 

 pi. 13. Coluber constrictor, var., Schleg. Ess. p. 133 ; Baird 8f 

 Girard, Catal. p. 150. 



Above pale sanguineous or testaceous, without any spot ; the 



