478 



VAR. ? 



SEBA describes and figures a snake extremely 

 allied to the above in general appearance and pro- 

 portions, but of very different colours ; the ground- 

 colour being a yellowish green, with the upper 

 parts not variegated with floscular spots, but by 

 numerous, short, double, red, transverse bands : a 

 snake of this kind is preserved in the British Mu- 

 seum, but, from having been long preserved in 

 spirits, exhibits only a yellowish white ground- 

 colour with dusky variegations. See Seba L\ t. 

 56. f. 1. 



PINTADO SNAKE. 



Coluber Meleagris. C. nigcr, albo confcrtim punctatus, abdo- 

 mine albo. 



Black Snake, thickly speckled with white, and with white ab- 

 domen. 



Scrpens Ccnlonica excellentissima elcgantcr picta. Scb. '2. 

 t. 32./. 2. 



Scrpens Babylonica Cenchrus dicta. Scb. 2. t. 52. f. 3, 



Serpens Hispalensis frontem prae se ferens vcnustissimani. Scb. 

 2. t. 56. f. 2. 



ALLIED in some degree to the preceding, but a 

 perfectly distinct species : habit long and slender, 

 measuring about two feet in length : colour above 

 jet black, marked in a rhomboid pattern with nu- 

 merous small roundish white specks, regularly dis- 

 posed by fours over the whole upper surface, till 



