ANGULAR SNAKE. 



to a sharp point : native, according to Seba, of the 

 C'ape of (ioocl Hope. 



ANGULAR SNAKE. 



Coluber Aniiiilatus. ('. .wlifiucus, fasciis tramfi'i-rsu lunccolatix 

 Mgricaiitibus, subdis altcrnat'un concurrent ibus. 



Brownish Snake, with broad transverse lanceolate blackish 

 bands, meeting alternately beneath. 



Coluber angulatus. Lin. Sy*f. Rut. p. 377. 



Si-rpcns vel Scpcdon Americanus. Seb. 2. t. 73. f. 1 ? 



Abdominal scuta 117, stibcaudal scales 70. 



LENGTH from two to three feet: colour pale 

 brown, with broad, equidistant, transverse, black- 

 ish lanceolate fascia; throughout the whole length, 

 continued round the body, but in an irregular or 

 alternating manner beneath the abdomen : head 

 rather small, and covered with large scales ; those 

 on the rest of the body of moderate size, and dis- 

 posed into about nineteen longitudinal rows ; and 

 as each scale is pretty strongly carinated, the body 

 appears as it were polygonal or angular : tail of 

 moderate length, and gradually tapering to the 

 tip : native of the East Indies, according to Lin- 

 n.i'us, but, if a snake described in Seba and quoted 

 by Linmrus, be really the same species, it occurs 

 also in South America : it is observed to vary con- 

 siderably in the number of its abdominal and sub- 

 caudal scales. 



