ROUGH SNAKE. ^ 



Coluber Scaber. C, griseusj fusco maculatus, sqiiamis elevato- 

 carinatis. 



Grey Snake, spotted with brown, with the scales carinated b\- 

 a rising point. 



Coluber Scaber. Lin. Syst. Nat, p. 385. Mus. Ad. Frid, p. 



36. t. 10. f. 1. 

 Rauhe Natter. Merrem. Beytr, 1. p. 34. t. g. 



Abdominal scuta 228, subcaudal scales 44. 



Length about a foot and half: habit slender: 

 head small, and marked at the back or neck with 

 a few transverse streaks : the scales on the remain- 

 der of the animal small, and marked by a rising 

 point on the back of each: thus causing a very 

 perceptible roughness on the skin : colour grey, 

 marked throughout with a triple row of somewhat 

 irregularly rhomboid and alternate brown spots 

 with paler centres : abdomen pale, and marked 

 on the sides with minute characteriform brownish 

 streaks: tail slender: native of India. 



