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SCHOKAR SNAKE. 



Coluber Shockar. C.fusco-c'mcrcus, Titta utrinquc duplid longi- 



tudinali alba, abtlomwe albido, gutafusco punctalu. 

 Cinereous-brown Snake, with a double longitudinal white band 



on each side, whitish abdomen, and throat speckled with 



brown. 

 Coluber Schockar. lin. Syst. Nat. Gmel. p. 1115. Fonk. F. 



Arab. p. 14. 

 Abdominal scuta 180, subcaudal scales 114. 



DESCRIBED by Forskal : length about a cubit 

 and half : thickness that of a finger: colour on 

 the upper parts cinereous brown, with a double 

 longitudinal white stripe on each side, and in the 

 more advanced or older specimens, a narrow 

 middle or dorsal stripe, consisting of small whitish 

 spots : throat yellowish, spotted with brown : head 

 ovate, obtuse, and covered with large scales : tail 

 about a third of the whole length : native of the 

 woody parts of Arabia. 



BEATAEN SNAKE. 

 Coluber Beataen. Forsk. F. Arab. p. 15. 



A POISONOUS species, mentioned by Forskal, 

 who, however, only tells us that it is black and 

 white, and that its bite is immediately fatal, the 

 body swelling in consequence. 



