BUGLE SNAKE. 539 



the tail measuring six inches and six lines : the 

 colour of the upper parts is rufous, each scale bor- 

 dered with yellow, and down the back, from the 

 back of the head to the end of the tail, run two 

 bright gold-yellow stripes : the head is furnished 

 with large scales, and those on the body are 

 smooth or uncarinated : its native country is un- 

 known. 





BUGLE SNAKE. 



Coluber Gemmatus. C. cceruhus, fascia media nigra albo-macu- 



lata, lateralibm albis. 

 Blue Snake, with a black middle-stripe spotted with white, 



and two lateral white stripes. 

 Le Chapelet. Cepede Scrp. p. 246. pi. 12. f. 1. 

 Abdominal scuta 166, subcaudal scales 103. 



A BEAUTIFUL species : length about fifteen or 

 sixteen inches : colour of the upper parts blue, 

 with three narrow equidistant stripes from head to 

 tail, the two lateral stripes being white, the middle 

 one black, marked by a row of small white specks 

 alternately oblong and round, representing a small 

 string of beads and bugles : head large-scaled and 

 marked on each side by three or four spots forming 

 a band across the eyes, the top spotted with pale 

 )lue marks bordered with black : the abdomen is 

 white, each scutum being marked at its edge, near 

 the body, with a small black speck, forming two 

 rows down the abdomen : native country un- 

 known : described by Cepede from a specimen in 

 the Royal Cabinet. 



