BULL-HEADED SNAKE. 



bands directed obliquely forwards, and slightly 

 edged with brown: abdomen dusky; sides speckled 

 with white : tail short. This species seems to vary 

 in colour, since in the Gmelinian edition of the 

 SystemaNaturgethe abdomen is said to be whitish. 

 The Seban figure quoted by Linnaeus in the Sys- 

 tema Naturse, is described by the author as of a pale 

 rufous colour, with yellowish bands somewhat re- 

 sembling Hebrew characters in form, and edged 

 with broAvn : the abdomen pale yellow, with a row 

 of blackish spots on each side. 



BULL-HEADED SNAKE. 



Coluber Bucephalus. C. siihfuscus, albiclo transtersim fasciatus^ 

 capite magm, cordatOj depresso, corpore compresso, cauda tenu' 

 issima. 



Brownish Snake, with transverse whitish bars, large cordated 



depressed head, compressed body, and very thin tail. 

 Serpens Lusitanis Cobra de Capello dicta. Seb. 1. t, 4^3. f. 4» 



A VERY singular species : length about four 

 feet and a half : head extremely large, depressed, 

 cordate behind, and somewhat compressed on the 

 sides of the mouth ; covered above by very large 

 scaly plates : at some distance from the eyes are 

 two remarkable, oblong, brown spots : neck thin, 

 and, together with the w^hole body, extremely 

 compressed on the sides : tail long, round, and 

 tapering to a fine point : from the head along the 

 back runs a row of large, broad, hexagonal scales, 

 those on the other parts being ovate : abdominal 



