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LEPTOPHIS .—Bell. 
Genus Lepropris.—Cuaracters. Head much elongated, sub-oval, narrow, 
covered with plates, as in Coluber; loral plate single; one anterior orbital and 
two posterior orbital plates; body long and very slender, covered with sub- 
hexagonal carinated scales; tail very long. 
Remarks. The genus Leptophis was very properly separated by Mr. Bell from 
that of Coluber, because of its extremely long and attenuated body, length and 
slenderness of tail, breadth of abdominal plates, &c. Wc. 
LEPTOPHIS ASTIVUS.—Linnzus. 
Plate I. 
Cuaracters. Head long, narrow, sub-oval, pointed in front, and covered with 
plates; body and tail both very long, slender, above green, below yellowish-white; 
scales carinated. Pl. 160. Sc. 140. 
Synonymes. Green-snake, Cateshy, Carolina, &c., vol. ii. p. 57, pl. Ivii. 
Coluber estivus, Linnxus, Syst. Nat., vol. i. p. 387. 
Coluber zstivus, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. Lin., vol. i. pars iii. p. 1114. 
La verditre, Lacépede, Hist. des Serp., tom. ii. p. 313. 
Coluber zstivus, Latretlle, Hist. des Rept., tom. iv. p. 140. 
Coluber estivus, Daudin, Hist. Nat. des. Rept., tom. vii. p. 101. 
Coluber estivus, Harlan, Med. and Phys. Res., p. 121. 
Green-snake, Vulgo. 
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