GLOSSY SNAKE 48/ 



peculiar absurdity in the Linnajan trivial name, 

 which is therefore purposely changed. 



GLOSSY SNAKE. 



Coluber Lubricus. C. albus, zonis (jtquidistantibus nigris. 

 White Snake, with equidistant black bands. 

 Coluber lubricus. Lin. Si/sL Nat. Gmel.p. 1101. 

 Anguis lubricus Africanus, &c. Seb, 2. t. 43./. 3. 



Allied to the C. Msculapii and lemniscatus, 

 but marked by single, equidistant, black bands : 

 ground-colour white: head marked across the 

 snout by a black band, and at the top by two ob- 

 lique stripes nearly meeting at an angle in front : 

 length about a foot and half: skin remarkably 

 smooth and glossy : native, according to Seba, of 

 Africa. 



HYGEIAN SNAKE. 



Coluber Hygeiae. C. albus, zonis subundulatis nigris, capite iou' 



gitudinaliter nigro fasciato. 

 White Snake, with subundulated black zones, and head fasci- 



ated longitudinally with black. 

 Serpens Siamensis tseniolis, &c. Seb. 2. t. 34./. 5. 

 Hygiaens Natter. Merrem Beytr. 1. p. 24. t. 6. 



A SMALLISH species, of a white colour, barred 

 with numerous and somewhat irregular black 

 bands nearly surrounding the body, and in some 

 parts alternating: head small, large-scaled, and 



