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HORtf-NOSE SNAKE. 



Coluber Nasicornis. C. subolivaceo-Jlavescens nigro variatus, 



fascia lateralijlexuosa pallida, naso bicorni. 

 Subolivaceo-flavcscent Snake, with black variegations, pal 



flexuous lateral band, and two-horned snout. 

 Coluber Nasicornis. C. subclivaceo-ferrugineus, nigro iiroratus 



maculis dorsalibus pallidis nigro circumscriptis, fascia laterali 



widu/ata pallida. 

 Olive-brown Snake, freckled with blackish, \vith a row of pale 



dorsal spots surrounded by black, and a flexuous pale fascia 



on the sides. Katuralisfs Miscellany, pi. 94. 

 Abdominal plates 127, subcaudal scales 32 pair. 



THIS highly remarkable Snake was first pub- 

 lished in the Naturalist's Miscellany, and was, 

 prior to the period of its introduction into that 

 work, a perfectly new and undescribed species. 

 I shall therefore repeat, with very slight varia- 

 tions, my former description. 



The Snake here represented, adds to the num- 

 ber of those malignant reptiles whose bite, in the 

 hotter regions of the globe, proves the dreadful 

 forerunner of a speedy and painful death. If at 

 the first glance of most of the serpent tribe an in- 

 voluntary sort of horror and alarm is so often felt 

 by those who are unaccustomed to the examina- 

 tion of these animals, how much greater dread 

 must the unexpected view of the species here ex- 

 hibited be supposed to inflict ? when to the gene- 

 ral form of the creature is superadded the peculiar 

 fierceness and forbidding torvity with which Na- 

 ture has marked its countenance ; distinguished 



