50-t FLAT-NOSED SNAKE. 



scales : eyes small : teeth minute : body slender 

 and smooth ; length about a span : colour white, 

 with numerous, broad, brown bands, surrounding 

 the body, but narrower below than above : scales 

 on the body smallish, the skin, according to the 

 figure in the work above mentioned, appearing 

 between them, so as to cause a kind of reticular 

 variegation on the brown annuli : tail short, taper, 

 but rather obtuse: native of Cevlon. 



FLAT-XOSED SNAK1 . 



Coluber Simu*. C. mgricans, albo transrcersim fasciatus, naso 



simo. 

 Blackish Snake, with white transverse bands, and tunicd-u]i 



nose. 



Coluber simus. Lin. Syst. Nat. p. 27 5. 

 Abdominal scuta 124, subcaudal scales 46'. 



LENGTH about a foot and half: head rather 

 large, roundish, the nose flat in front, and turned 

 up into a slightly pointed tip : between the eyes a 

 black curved band, and on the top of the head a 

 white cross-shaped mark with a black central spot: 

 body blackish or deep-brown, with white vai lega- 

 tions so disposed as to form a kind of transverse 

 bands: abdomen dusky : native of North America. 



