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BOA. BOA. 



Generic Character. 



Scuta abdominalia & sub- 

 caudalia. 



Scuta or undivided plates both 

 on the abdomen and be- 

 neath the tail. 



CONSTRICTOR BOA. 



Boa Constrictor. B. grueo-Jlavesccns, catena dorsali castanea> 



maculis lateralibus subtrigonis. 

 Yellowish-grey Boa, with large chesnut-coloured chain-like 



pattern down the back, and subtrigonal spots on the sides. 

 Boa Constrictor. Lin. Syst. Nat. p. 373. 

 Serpens Ceilonica spadicea Manballa dicta. Seb. 2. t. 99. f. 1. 

 Serpens excellens ac speciosa Brasiliensis. Ib. t. 99>f* 2. 

 Serpens blanda Ceilonica Polonga dicta. Ib. t. 101. 

 Serpens Americana arborea. Seb. 1. t. 53. 

 Le Devin. Cepede ovip. 2. p. 338. 



Boa Constrictor. Great Boa. Nat. Misc. vol. 2. pi. 51. 

 Abdominal scuta 240, subcaudal 60. 



X H E genus Boa is remarkable for the vast and 

 almost unlimited size of some of the principal spe- 

 cies, which in India, Africa, and South America, 

 are occasionally found of not less than twenty, 

 thirty, and even thirty-five feet in length, and of 

 a strength so prodigious as to be able to destroy 



