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DINGY SXAKE. 



Coluber Exoletus. C. grisco-carulcscens, capite oblongo dcprcs- 



siuscufa, labiis gulaque a/bis. 

 Brueish-grey Snake, with oblong flatfish head, and white lips 



and throat. 



Coluber cxoletus. Lin. Syst. Nat. p. 385. 

 Abdominal scuta 147, subcaudal scales 13C, 



DESCRIBED by Linnseus in the Museum Adol- 

 phi Friderici : length about three feet : habit of 

 the Ahcetulla : colour blueish grey : scales on the 

 body obtuse, and arranged in eleven rows : head 

 oblong, flattish : lips and throat white : tail more 

 than a third of the whole length, slender, and pale 

 beneath : native of South America. 



DHARA SNAKE. 



Coluber Dhara. C. cupreo-griscus sultus albus, squamarum 



marginibus albicantibus. 

 Cupreous-grey Snake, white beneath, with the edges of the 



scales whitish. 



Coluber Dhara. Lin. Syst. Nat. Gmel. p. 1111. 

 Abdominal scuta 235, subcaudal scales 48. 



DESCRIBED by Forskal : native of Arabia: 

 length more than a cubit: thickness less than 

 that of a finger: colour above cupreous grey, 

 with the edges of the scales whitish: beneath 

 white: head ovate and obtuse; covered with large 

 scales, of which that in the middle or between the 

 eyes is larger than the rest. 



