476 CLOUDED SNAKE. 



thin : tail very long, measuring near a third part 

 of the whole animal, and gradually tapering to 

 the extremity : colour white or yellowish, marked 

 throughout the whole upper part from head to the 

 end of the tail, with numerous transverse rhom- 

 boidal bars or patches of brown, the points de- 

 scending on each side. 



CLOUDED SNARE. 



Coluber Nebulatus. C. subjlaiescens maculis irregvlaributfofcis 



ncbulatus, abdomine pallidofusco maculato. 

 Yellowish Snake, clouded with irregular brown spots, with 



pale abdomen speckled with brown. 

 Coluber nebulatus. Lin. Syst. Nat. p. 388. 

 Serpcns Ceilonica maculata. Seb. 1. 1. 100./. 4. 

 Serpcns Dipsas lentiginosa Araboinensis. Seb. 2. t. 44. f. 2 ? 

 Abdominal scuta 185, subcaudal scales 81. 



SIZE moderate, measuring about two feet i 

 length : habit rather slender : head rather large, 

 and covered with large scales : tail of middling 

 length, tapering rather suddenly from the body, 

 and gradually decreasing to the tip : colour of the 

 whole animal yellowish brown, clouded with irre- 

 gular deep-brown or blackish variegations, form- 

 ing a sort of bands nearly surrounding the body, 

 with smaller spots and frecklings intermixed : 

 under parts pale, speckled with brown : native of 

 America : well figured in the work of Seba. The 

 Coluber Zeylonicus, of the Gmelinian edition of the 

 Systema Naturae can hardly be considered as dis- 

 tinct from the present species. 





