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COLUBER GUTTATUS.— Lmn^Hs. 



Plate XIV. 



Characters. Head moderate, narrow, elongated; snout obtuse; colour above 

 reddish-brown, marked with oblong transverse spots of brick-dust colour, with 

 darker borders; abdomen white, marked with alternate quadrilateral black spots. 

 PI. 126. So. 64. 



Synonymes. Coluber guttatus, LinnBeus, Syst. Nat., vol. i. p. 385. 

 Corn-snake, Catesby, Carolina, vol. ii. p. 55, pi. Iv. 

 Coluber guttatus, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. Lin., torn. i. p. 1110. 

 La mouchetee, Lac('pede, Hist. Nat. des Serp., torn. ii. p. 2S2. 

 La tachetee, Lacipide, Hist. Nat. des Serp., torn. ii. p. 329. 

 Coluber molussus, Daudin, Hist. Nat. des Rept., torn. vi. p. 269. 

 Coluber guttatus, Z)auc?m, Hist. Nat. des Rept, torn. vi. p. 261. 

 Coluber maculatus, Daudin, Hist. Nat. des. Rept., torn. vii. p. 217. 

 La couleuvre cannelee, Latreille, Hist. Nat. des Kept., torn. iv. p. 110. 

 Coluber Carolinianus, Shaw, Gen. Zool., vol. iii. p. 460. 

 Coluber pantherinus, Merrem, Beytrag. ii. s. 49, tab. xxi. 

 Natrix pantherinus, Merrem, Versueh eines Syst. der Amphib., p. 103. 

 Coluber guttatus, Harlan, Med. and Phys. Res., p. 126. 

 Coluber floridanus, Harlan, Med. and Phys. Res., p. 124. 

 Coluber maculatus, Harlan, Med. and Phys. Res., p. 125. 

 Coluber molossus, Harlan, Med. and Phys. Res., p. 126. 

 Corn-snake, Vulgo. 



Description. The head is narrow and elongated, the snout obtuse. The 

 vertical plate is pentagonal, Avith its largest border forwards, and an acute angle 

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