Directions for placing the Plates invol. III. part II. 



The Vignette represents a species of Australasian Snake not 

 yet fully described: it has the habit of a Boa, is covered 

 with very small scales, and varied with irregular yellow spots 

 on a blackish ground : length about 14 inches. See Whit 

 Voyage, p. 259- K 46. 



Plate 87 to face page 314 II Plate 114 to face page 454 



lie _ 455 



