THE 



HORN-NOSED SNAKE. 



Generic Character. 



Tranfverfe Lamella under the abdomen. 

 Broad alternate Scales under the tail. 



Specific Character. 



OLIVE-BROWN SNAKE, freckled with black- 

 ifh, with a row of pale dorfal fpots fur- 

 rounded by black, and a flexuous pale fafcia 

 on the fides. 



The abdominal plates are 127. The fubcaudal fcales 

 about 3 2. 



The belly is of a pale olive-colour with dujky fpots. 



The fnake here reprefented muft be confidered as a 

 fpecies hitherto unknown, and adds to the number of 

 thofe malignant reptiles whofe bite, in the hotter regions 

 of the globe, proves the dreadful forerunner of a fpeedy 

 and painful death. If at firft glance of moil of the 

 ferpent-tribe an involuntary fort of horror and alarm is 

 fo often felt by thofe who are unufed to the examination 

 of thefe animals, how much greater dread muft the 

 unexpected view of the fpecies here exhibited be fup- 

 pofed to inflid ? when to the general form of the crea- 

 ture 



