494 



ROUGH SNAKE. 



Coluber Scaber. C. griseus, fusco maculatus, squamis elccatu- 



carinatis. 

 Grey Snake, spotted with brown, with the scales carinatcd In 



a rising point. 

 Coluber Scaber. Lin. Syst. Nat. p. 385. Mus. Ad. Frid. p. 



36. t. 10. f. 1. 



Rauhe Natter. Merrem. Eeytr. I. p. 34. t. <). 

 Abdominal scuta 228, subcaudal scales 44. 



LENGTH about a foot and half: habit slender: 

 head small, and marked at the back or neck with 

 a few transverse streaks : the scales on the remain- 

 der of the animal small, and marked by a rising 

 point on the back of each : thus causing a very 

 perceptible roughness on the skin : colour grey, 

 marked throughout with a triple row of somewhat 

 irregularly rhomboid and alternate brown spots 

 with paler centres : abdomen pale, and marked 

 on the sides with minute character iforra brownish 

 streaks: tail slender: native of India. 



