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ROYAL BOA. 



Boa Regia. B. alba, collo longitudinaliter fasciato, corpore fusco 

 griseoque, vel aurantio roseoque variato. 



White Boa, with longitudinally striped neck, and body varie- 

 gated either with brown and grey, or orange and rose-colour. 



Serpens Phyticus Africanus prodigiosus, ab indigenis divino ho- 

 nore cultus. Scb, 1. t. 62. f. 1. 



'Serpens Arabica Brasiliensibus Ibiboboca & Boiguaeu dictis. 

 Seb. 2. t. 102. 



This species, which does not appear to have 

 been described by any author except Seba, is in 

 the form of its head, and the general shape of the 

 body, most allied to the Canina and Phrijgia. In 

 its colour it appears to vary, the ground-colour 

 being Avhite, but the variegations sometimes 

 dusky or chesnut, and sometimes of a most ele- 

 gant orange-red, accompanied by a tinge of blos- 

 som-colour on the lighter parts of the pattern : the 

 top of the head is filled by a large patch, from 

 which run two long parallel stripes to a consider- 

 able distance on each side the neck, leaving a 

 wider stripe of the ground-colour along the upper 

 part, and which afterwards ceasing, forms a part 

 of the general variegation, which consists of a 

 large and somcM^hat chain-like dorsal band, run- 

 ning down on each side at moderately distant in- 

 tervals, into obtuse processes or sinuations regu- 

 larly bordered by the white ground-colour, the 

 intervening lateral spaces being much lighter, and 

 each marked by a dusky patch on the upper part : 

 the under parts of the body and tail are white : 



