465 



PLICATILE SNAKE. 



the same colour : on the abdominal scuta are scat- 

 tered a few small blackish or dusky spots of dif- 

 ferent size and shape : the skin is smooth and 

 glossy. Seba considers this snake as a kind of 

 Viper, but, according to the observations of Mr. 

 Merrem, it is destitute of fangs, and is conse- 

 quently an innocuous species. It is a native of 

 America. 



PLICATILE SNAKE. 



Coluber Plicatilis. C. fusco-Jiaxiescens, suhtus pallidus, fascia 

 utrinque lateraUfasco-ferruginea albido maculata. 



Yellowish -brown Snake, pale beneath, with a lateral dusky 

 stripe on each side the body marked b}'- a row of white spots. 



Coluber plicatilis. Lin, Syst. Nat, p, 376. Mus. Ad. Frid* 

 p. 23. 



Serpens Bali-Salan-Boekit. Seb. 1. L 57* f. 5. 

 Abdominal scuta 131, subcaudal scales 4:6. 



A MODERATELY large species, generally mea^ 

 suring between two and three feet, or more, in 

 length : colour yellowish brown, with a dusky, 

 and sometimes reddish, lateral stripe immediately 

 above the scuta, formed by a row of confluent 

 dusky spots with white centres : abdomen pale/ 

 marked with three, and sometimes four, rows of 

 small dusky spots : head covered in front with 

 large scales : snout obtuse : tail thick, and rather 

 obtuse. The specimen of this snake described 

 by Linnasus in the Museum Aclolphi Friderici seems 

 to have been rather small. The Count de Cepede 

 informs us, that the specimen in the King of 



