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PADERA SNAKE. 



Coluber Padera. C. albus, maculis dorsalibus fiiscis lineola con* 



nexis, lateralibus simplicibus. 

 White Snake, with blackish dorsal spots connected by a line, 



and simple lateral spots. 

 Coluber Padera. Lin. Syst. Nat. p. 382. 

 Abdominal scuta 198", subcaudal scales 56. 



OF this snake little more seems to be known 

 than what may be collected from the short de- 

 scription of its colours given in the Systema Na- 

 ture, viz. that it is white, with a dorsal range of 

 double black spots connected by a common line ; 

 the sides being marked by a row of simple spots 

 of similar colour. It is a native of India. 



AUSTRALASIAN SNAKE. 



Coluber fusco-nigricanSjjlavo punctatus, scutis breoissimis, abdomint 



fusco jlawque nebulato. 

 Blackish-brown Snake, speckled with yellow, with very narrow 



scuta, and abdomen clouded with brown and yellow. 



A LARGE snake, measuring nine or ten feet in 

 length, and being rather slender in proportion : 

 colour above very deep or blackish brown, varie- 

 gated with numerous yellow specks, which varie- 

 gation is chiefly owing to each of the black or 

 dark-brown scales being marked on the middle by 

 an ovate yellow spot : on the sides of the body 

 many of the scales are yellow on one half and 

 black on the other ; and by degrees appear more 



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