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the back will at once distinguish this non-venomous 
species from the Crotaline form. 
Among the Carib tribes this snake is known by the 
name Wy-o-pomoi. It is termed by them a “ bad” 
snake, and possibly this refers to the severe gashes 
which it can infli€t with its long teeth. : 
The two remaining species of Corallus very closely 
resemble each other in their general form. They are 
elongated and slender, much more so than the other 
boas, and the neck.is sharply constri¢ted giving a tri- 
angular shape to the head. The body is marked by 
alternating series of transversely elongated, dark brown 
or purplish blotches, often enclosing paler spaces ; and 
on each side of the head, behind the eye, is an oblique 
dark-brown streak. y 
In the commoner species (C. hortulanum), the ground 
colour is a pale brownish-grey, and the head is marked 
by a dark streak in the middle, and by two at the sides, 
One passing along each eye; while the blotches along 
the body are sub-rhomboidal and more or less clearly 
defined from each other, 
In the other species (C, cookzz), the ground colour is 
much more yellowish; the head is more irregularly 
mottled or marbled, and the Llotches on the body are 
much more variable, being less distinétly defined and 
separated. Size for size, too, the scales are less nume- 
rous than in the former species. 
In their general colouring both these snakes are very 
much like the venomous labarria, and in faét are often 
mistaken for it by colonists generally, the elongated 
anterior teeth being confounded with true poison fangs. 
Time after time, the commoner species has been 
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