405 MEGAERA. 



forbid this supposition. It is said to be a native 

 of Africa. See Seb. % pi. f. 2, 



TISIPHONE. 



Coluber Tisiphone. C.fuscus immacidatus, corpore crasso. 

 Brown thick-bodied Snake, without any variegations. 

 Brown Viper. Catesb. Carol. 2» pL 45. 



This, says Catesby, is of the size of the Black 

 Viper (American), measuring about two feet in 

 length, and large in proportion : it is also a very 

 slow-moving and sluggish reptile, advancing de- 

 liberately, even to escape danger : yet will defend 

 itself with much fierceness when attacked, and its 

 bite is said to be as venomous as any : it retains 

 its brown colour, in all stages of life : it is found 

 in Virginia, and Carolina, in the last of which it 

 is called the Truncheon Snake : it preys on Li- 

 zards and other animals. 



MEGAERA. 



Coluber Megsera. C, fuscvs, flam 'cariatus, capite cordato de- 

 presso, foramine utrinque magjio inter oculos Sf nares. 



Brown Snake, with yellow variegations, flat cordate head, an4 

 a large orifice on each side between the eyes and nostrils. 



La Vipere Fer-de-Lance. Cepede Serp. p. 121. pL 5. 



Abdominal scuta 224, subcaudal squamse 68. 



This is a large species, measuring, when full^ 

 grown, five or six feet, or even more, in length. 



