S56 LINEATED BOA. 



cases. A living specimen, however, which he ob- 

 tained in Dec. 1788, from Ganjam, enabled him to 

 make some experiments with it on chickens ; but 

 though it arrived to excellent order, and bit fe- 

 rociously, the bite was followed by no symptoms 

 of poison. 



LINEATED BOA. 



Boa Lineata. B. atrocceruka lineis transversis arcuatis albo- 



pujicfatis, abdomine albido. 

 Blackish-blue Boa, with white-dotted transverse arcuated 



lines, and whitish abdomen. 

 Geedi Paragoodoo. Rms. Ind. Ser.p. 1. t. 1. 

 Abdominal scuta 209, subcaudal 47. 



« The Geedi Paragoodoo is of a slender form, with 

 the general appearancfe of a Coluber rather than a 

 Boa. It is of an extremely dark blue colour, so 

 as to appear almost black in certain lights, and is 

 marked throughout the whole length of the upper 

 part by several transverse curved and dotted white 

 lines at somewhat unequal distances, and varying 

 in number in different individuals from about 

 forty-two to fifty : they are so disposed as almost 

 to represent so many large spotted circles, if 

 viewed from above : the sides of the body, near 

 the scuta, are dun-coloured, and the whole range 

 of scuta, both abdominal and subcaudal, yellowish- 

 white : the head is covered with large scales ; the 

 body with small ovate ones, and down the back 

 runs a row of hexagonal scales : the tail is about 



