CATALOGUE 



OF THE 



SPECIMENS OF NATURAL HISTORY IN SPIRIT. 



Class REPTILIA. 

 Order I. OPHIDIA OR SNAKES. 



Section I. SCALY REPTILES (Squamata). 



Mouth dilatable ; all the facial bones moveable. Jaws toothed ; lower jaw-bones 

 only united by ligaments in front. Eyes without eyelids. External ears 

 none. Tongue very long, retractile into a sheath at its base ; the apex 

 forked, very long, slender, tapering. Limbs none, or only rudimentary, in 

 the form of spurs on the side of the vent. Catalogue of the Snakes in the 

 British Museum. 



Family 1. Colubridce, Gray. 

 Nostrils apical, lateral, open. Head generally shielded. 



Genus COLUBER, Linn. 



44 '2. The Iridescent Snake (Coluber Ahtetulla, Linn. ; Coluber decorus, 



Shaw). 



Fig. Shaw, Gen. Zool. vol. viii. p. 550. Griffith, A. K. vol. iv. p. 259. 

 Hob. India. 



Considered to be one of the most beautiful of the whole Serpent tribe. 



K 2 



