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EIGHT-LINED SNAKE. 



Coluber Octolineatus. C. svbfernigineus, lineis octo nigris. 

 Subferruginous Snake, with eight black lines. 

 Abdominal scuta 185? subcaudal scales 65? 



A SMALL Snake, about the size of a middling 

 earthworm : colour pale ferruginous, marked by 

 eight distinct black lines or stripes from head to 

 tail ; the two principal ones running down the top 

 of the back, and the rest, which are narrower, 

 down the sides : head scarce larger than the neck, 

 large-scaled, blunt-nosed, and marked over the 

 snout by a transverse black band passing through 

 the eyes : the two principal or dorsal stripes unite 

 in a sharp point on the top of the head : abdomei 

 white : tail short, measuring about an inch and 

 half, and tapering pretty suddenly. Described 

 from specimens in the British Museum, having th< 

 appearance of very young animals : native coun- 

 try unknown. 



INTESTINAL SNAKE. 



Coluber Intestinalis. C. svbfcrrvgineus, svpra lineis tribvs albis, 

 dor sail super caput bifurca, abdomine albo nigroqve vario. 



Subferruginous Snake, marked above by three white lines, th< 

 dorsal one forked on the head, the abdomen variegated wit 

 black and white. 



Serpentula gracilis longa Guineensis. Seb. 2. /. 2./. 7. 



A SMALL, slender species, described and figured 

 by Seba, measuring about a foot and half in 



