48 BROAD-CHEEKED SNAKE. 



double black confluent spots of considerable size: 

 abdomen livid or brownish : tail a ninth part of 

 the whole length, and slightly tapering. Linnseus 

 observes that this species has somewhat the habit 

 of the Anguis Scytale. Native of India and South 

 America, and said to be poisonous. 



BROAD-CHEEKED SNAKE. 



Coluber Buccatus. C. albidits maculis magnis dorsalibus dupli- 



catisfmcis, capite subdepresso, getiis titmidiy. 

 Whitish Snake, with large double brown dorsal spots, subde- 



pressed head, and tumid cheeks. 

 Coluber Buccatus. Lin. Syst. Nat. p. 377 

 Abdominal scuta 107, subcaudal scales 72. 



A SMALL species ; the specimen described by 

 Linnseus measuring about a foot in length : head 

 large, very thick on the sides, flattish, white, and 

 marked by a trigonal dusky spot over the snout, 

 and by a dusky line reaching to the eye on each 

 side : trunk white or whitish, marked all along the 

 back by a double row of very broad brown spots, 

 which almost fill the whole space of the skin : tail 

 rather slender; measuring about a fourth of the 

 whole : native of South America and of India : a 

 poisonous species. 



