CINEREOUS SNAKE. 517 



eye proceed two dusky lines towards the back of 

 the jaw: tail long, slender, and tapering to a 

 point : described from a specimen in the British 

 Museum. 



CINEREOUS SNAKE. 



Coluber Cinereus. C. cinereus, abdomme (libido, ccmda sup*a 



fusco reticufafaf subtus transversim lineata. 

 Cinereous Snake, with white abdomen, tail reticulated above 



with brown, and lineatcd transversly beneath. 

 Coluber cinereus. Lin. Syst. Nat. p. 388. Mus. Ad. Frid. 



p. 37. 

 Abdominal scuta 200, subcaudal scales 137. 



HABIT of Natrix : length about two feet: co- 

 lour cinereous : head ovate, convex : eyes large: 

 lips marked by transverse black stripes : trunk 

 covered by nineteen rows of small smooth scales : 

 abdomen white, and slightly angular: tail more 

 than a third of the whole ; tlattish beneath, with 

 the scales edged with brown above, and appearing 

 reticulated, and transversly lineated beneath : 

 native of the East Indies. 



