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CALAMARIA STRIATVLA.—Limmus. 



Plait XXIX. 



Characters. Head small, not distinct from the neck; snout rather pointed; 

 body short, robust; tail very short, above reddish-grey, beneath pale salmon- 

 colour. PI. 130. Sc. 20. 



Synontmes. Coluber striatulus, Linnseiis, Syst. Nat, torn. i. p. 375. 

 Coluber striatulus, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. Lin., torn. i. pars iii. p. 1087. 

 Coluber striatulus, Daudin, Hist. Nat. des Rept., torn. vii. p. 200. 

 Coluber sti'iatulus, Latreille, Hist. Nat. Rept., torn. iv. p. 84. 

 Natrix striatulus, il/errcTW, Versuch eines Syst. der Amphib., p. 118. 

 Coluber striatula, Harlan, Med. and Phys. Res., p. 117. 

 Calamaria striatula, Schlegel, Phys. des Serp., torn. ii. p. 43. 

 Brown Snake, Vulgo. 



Description. The head is very small, rather pointed at the snout, and not at all 

 distmct from the neck The vertical plate is sub-he.xagonal and pointed behind; 

 the superior orbital are narrow, rather long, and do not project over the eyes, 

 which are consequently directed slightly upwards. The occipital plates are 

 broad, elongated, and pentagonal. The frontal are elongated, pentagonal, broadest 

 behind, and narrower where they are prolonged to form a part of the orbit; the 

 anterior frontal is single, sub-trigonal, broadest behind. There are two nasal 

 plates; the anterior is semicircular, concave behind; the posterior is quadrilateral, 

 and concave before for the nostril. The anterior orbital plate is very large and 

 a parallelogram in shape, and reaches to the posterior nasal, as there is no loral 

 plate; the posterior orbital is single, triangular, its basis before and slightly 



