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LEPTOPHIS SAURITUS.—Linnzus. 
Plate IV. 
Cuaracters. Head oval, much elongated; snout prolonged, though rather 
rounded at the apex; body very long, slender; tail very long, thin, pointed at the 
tip; colour, above dusky brown, trilineate, vertebral line pale yellow, often tinged 
with green; lateral lines clouded yellowish-white; abdomen pale yellow, tinged 
with green, immaculate. Pl. 165-167. Sc. 117-121. 
Synonymes. Riband Snake, Catesby, Carol., &c., vol. ii. p. 50, pl. 1. 
Coluber saurita, Linnzus, Syst. Nat., tom. i. p. 385, 
Coluber saurita, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. Lin., tom. i. pars iil. p. 1109. 
Le saurite, Zacépide, Hist. Nat. des Serp., tom. ii. p. 308. 
Coluber saurita, Zatreille, Hist. Nat. Rept., tom. iv. p. 178. 
Coluber saurita, Daudin, Hist. Nat. des Rept., tom. vil. p. 104, pl. 81, fig. 2. 
Coluber saurita, Shaw, Gen. Zool., vol. iii. part i. p. 532. 
Natrix saurita, Merrem, Versuch eines Syst. der Amph., p. 122. 
Coluber proximus, Say, Long’s Exped. to Rock. Mount., vol. i. p. 187. 
Coluber saurita, Fitzinger, Neue Class der Rept., p. 53. 
Coluber saurita, Harlan, Med. and Phys. Res., p. 115. 
Coluber proximus, Harlan, loc. cit., p. 116. 
Riband Snake at the south, Swift Garter Snake at the north, Vulgo. 
Descerrrion. The head is ovoid, very long, and rather large in proportion to 
the body, with the snout somewhat prolonged, though rounded at its apex. The 
vertical plate is large, elongated, and hexagonal; the superior orbital are of equal 
length with the vertical, quadrilateral, narrow, broader behind, and projecting 
over the eye. The occipital are irregularly triangular, with all their angles 
