46S BROAD-NOSED SNAKE. 



to the extremity. This snake is found in Caro- 

 lina, Virginia, &c. frequenting moist woods, and 

 shady places, and preying on Lizards, &c. In the 

 British Museum is a large specimen which appears 

 to have been taken in the act of swallowing a 

 pretty large lizard (Ameiva), and in consequence 

 of which the jaws are full as much dilated as those 

 of the Coluber coralllnus figured in a similar situa- 

 tion by Seba, and represented also in the present 

 work. 



BROAD-NOSED SNAKE. 



Coluber Pluturinus. C. allms fHsco-maculatus t corpore fasais 



latisfuscis annulate. 

 White Snake, spotted \\ith brown, and annulated with broad 



brown zones. 

 >r.rpens Guineensis rarissima Millio dicta. Seb. 2. t, S3. f* 3? 



A HANDSOME species : habit somewhat resem- 

 bling that of the Col. Natrir, but the tail rather 

 more slender in proportion : back slightly ca- 

 rinated, sides somewhat sloping, and abdomen 

 flattish : colour of the whole animal an equal va- 

 riegation of broad blackish-brown and \\hite 

 bands, equidistant from each other, and entirely 

 surrounding the respective parts : the white band* 

 are spotted with black : head rather large than 

 small, covered with huge scales of a black-brown 

 colour, elegantly separated from each other by in- 

 tervening white spaces, so that the head appears 

 marked with large black spots on a white ground 



