434 AULIC SNAKE. 



being composed of very small spots, the next on 

 each side of larger ocellated ones, and the lowest 

 on each side, next the scuta, resembling that on 

 the middle of the back, and consisting of small 

 specks : the head is marked by a cross-shaped spot 

 on the top, and by a few blackish ones across the 

 snout : the tail appears short in proportion to the 

 animal, measuring about two inches and a half, 

 and tapering to a point. In the Gmelinian edition 

 of the Systema Nature this snake is marked, I 

 know not on what authority, as a poisonous spe- 

 cies. It is said by Seba to be a native of America. 



AULIC SNAKE. 



Coluber Aulicus. C. griseo-fmcuSffasciis transversis albis super 

 latera bifurcis. 



Grey-brown Snake, with transverse white bands bifurcating 



over the sides. 

 Coluber Aulicus. Lin. Si/sf. Nat, p. 381. 

 Abdominal scuta 184, subcaudal scales 60. 



A SMALL species, the specimen described by Lin- 

 naeus measuring only half a foot in length, and 

 about a third of an inch in diameter : colour grey- 

 brown, with more than twenty linear, white trans- 

 verse bands, each bifurcated tov/ards the abdo- 

 men : head white behind : tail about the fourth of 

 the whole length : native of America, and consi* 

 dered as a poisonous species. 



