HORN-NOSE SNAKE. 



Coluber Nasicornis. C. suholivaceo-JlaDescens nigro mriatus, 



fascia laferali Jiemosa pallida, naso bicorni, 

 Subolivaceo-flavescent Snake, with black variegations, pale 



flexuous lateral band, and two-horned snout. 

 Coluber Nasicornis. C. subolivaceo-ferrugineus, nigro irroratus 



macuUs dorsalihus pallidis nigro circuimcriptis, fascia lalerali 



uiidulata pallida. 



Olive-brown Snake, freckled with blackish, with a row of pale 

 dorsal spots surrounded by black, and a flexuous pale fascia 

 on the sides. Naiuralisfs Miscellany^ pi. C)4. 



Abdominal plates 127, subcaudal scales 32 pair. 



This highly remarkable Snake was first pub- 

 lished in the Naturalist's Miscellany, and was, 

 prior to the period of its introduction into that 

 work, a perfectly new and undescribed species. 

 I shall therefore repeat, with very slight varia- 

 tions, my former description. 



The Snake here represented, adds to the num- 

 ber of those mahgnant reptiles whose bite, in the 

 hotter regions of the globe, proves the dreadful 

 forerunner of a speedy and painful death. If at 

 the first glance of most of the serpent tribe an in- 

 voluntary sort of horror and alarm is so often felt 

 by those who are unaccustomed to the examina- 

 tion of these animals, how much greater dread 

 must the unexpected view of the species here ex- 

 hibited be supposed to inflict ? when to the gene- 

 ral form of the creature is superadded the peculiar 

 fierceness and forbidding torvity with which Na- 

 ture has marked its countenance; distinguished 



