518 



HORSESHOE SNAKE. 



Coluber Hippocrcpis. C. Imdus fusco maculatus, occipite fascia 



lunulata rcvtrsa. 

 Livid Snake, spotted with brown, with a reversed lunulated 



band on the hind part of the luiid. 

 Coluber Hippocrepis. Un. Syst. Nat. p. 388. 

 Abdominal scuta 232, subcaudal scales 9-i. 



A SMALL species : length little more than a foot : 

 colour livid, with a row of pretty closely placed 

 round brown spots down the back, and two or 

 three rows of much smaller alternating ones down 

 the sides : head of moderate size, marked by a 

 transverse arcuated brown band between the eyes, 

 and by a larger horseshoe-shaped band on the hind- 

 head, the divisions pointing backwards : abdomen 

 pale : tail of middling length, tapering gradually 

 to the tip : native of America. 



SCUTATED SXAKE. 



Coluber Scutatus. C. ater scut'is latissims. 



Black Snake, with extremely broad scuta. 



Coluber scutatus. Lin. Syst. Nat. Gmel. p. 1102. Pall. it. 1. 



p. 459. 

 Abdominal scuta 1$0, subcaudal scales .50. 



HABIT of Natrix : length near four feet: co- 

 lour entirely black, except that the abdomen is 

 marked alternately on each side with a row of 

 smallish, square, yellowish white spots : scuta re- 



