422 "BULL-HEADED SNAKE. 



bands directed obliquely forwards, and slightly 

 edged with brown: abdomen dusky; sides speckled 

 with white : tail short. This species seems to vary 

 in colour, since in the Gmelinian edition of the 

 Sy sterna Naturae the abdomen is said to be whitish. 

 The Seban figure quoted by Linnaeus in the Sys- 

 tema Natunu, is described by the author as of a pale 

 rufous colour, with yellowish bands somewhat re- 

 sembling Hebrew characters in form, and edged 

 with brown : the abdomen pale yellow, with a row 

 of blackish spots on each side. 



BULL-HEADED SXAKE. 



Coluber Bucephalus. C. n&fuscw, albido transversim fascia tus f 

 capite magno, cordato, depresso, corpore compresso, cauda tenu- 

 usima. 



Brownish Snake, with transverse whitish bars, large cordated 

 depressed head, compressed body, and very thin tail. 



Scrpcns Lusitanis Cobra dc Capello dicta. $cb. 1. t. 43. f. 4* 



A VERY singular species: length about four 

 feet and a half: head extremely large, depressed, 

 cordate behind, and somewhat compressed on the 

 sides of the mouth ; covered above by very large 

 scaly plates : at some distance from the eyes are 

 two remarkable, oblong, brown spots : neck thin, 

 and, together with the whole body, extremely 

 compressed on the sides : tail long, round, and 

 tapering to a line point: from the head along the 

 back runs a row of large, broad, hexagonal scales, 

 those on the other parts being ovate : abdominal 



