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GRAPHIC SNAKE. 



Coluber Graphicus. C. cinereus, supra lineis nigricantibus cka- 

 racteriformibus notatus, abdomine pallida fusco mriafo. 



Cinereous Snake, marked above with blackish characteriform 

 lines, and pale abdomen variegated with brown. 



Serpens de Moculo Americana. Seb. 2. t. 75* f. 3. ? 



Abdominal scuta 143, subcaudal scales 73. 



Size of Berus : colour above glaucous, with a 

 tinge of ferruginous, and marked all over the 

 back and sides with narrow black characteriform 

 streaks in diiferent directions, and edged on their 

 exterior side with small longitudinal whitish 

 marks, the edges of the scales being of that co- 

 lour : abdomen pale or white, the edges or sides 

 of the scuta (and in some parts the middle) 

 marked with large square blackish-brown patches : 

 tail long and slender, abdomen separated from the 

 upper parts by a very distinct side-line : head 

 scarce larger than the neck, of a longish form, 

 and covered with large scales : behind each eye a 

 large and long triangular dark patch, including 

 an oval white one : described from a specimen in 

 the British Museum. It also occurs in the Mu- 

 seum of Dr. Hunter. 



