CERULEAN SNAKE. 



Coluber Caemlcus. C. cccrulesccns, squamis alfcro tatere albis, 



abdonntie albo. 

 IBlueish Snake, with the scales white on one side, and white 



abdomen. 



Coluber ca?ruleus. Lin. Syst. Nat. p. 377. 

 Abdominal scuta l6\>, subcaudal scales 24. 



ALLIED in colour to the Linnsean Dipsas, being- 

 blue above, with the lower margin of the scales 

 white : abdomen white : head of moderate size : 

 tail rather short, slender, and tapering to the tip : 

 general length about a foot and a half or two feet: 

 native of South America. 



LIVID SNAKE. 



Coluber Saturmnus. C. Uiidits, fasciis angustis transcersis ci- 



ncrcis. 



Livid Snake, with narrow transverse cinereous bands. 

 Coluber Saturninus. Lin. Syst. Nat. p. 384. Mus. Ad. Frid. 



p. 32. t. 9.f. 1. 

 Abdominal scuta 147, subcaudal scales 120. 



DESCRIBED by Linnseus in the Museum Adol- 

 phi Friderici : head broader than the body, de- 

 pressed, oblong, lead-coloured : eyes very large : 

 trunk livid, somewhat clouded above with narrow 

 cinereous bands: tail round, and measuring about 

 a third of the whole animal : a harmless species : 

 native of South America : length about two feet : 

 habit rather slender. 



