500 AXGULAK SNAKE. 



to a sharp point: native, according to Seba^ of the 

 Cape of Good Hope. 



ANGULAR SNAKE. 



Coluber Angulatus. C, subfuseus, fasciis transversis Imiceolatu 

 nigrkantibus, subtus alternatim concurrcniibus. 



Brownish Snake, with broad transverse lanceolate blackish 

 bands, meeting alternately beneath. 



Coluber angulatus. Lin, Si/st. Nat, p, 377. 



Serpens vei Sepedon Americanus. Seb. 2. t. 75. f. I f 



Abdominal scuta 117, subcaudal scales 70. 



Length from two to tliree feet: colour pale 

 brown, with broad, equidistant, transverse, black- 

 ish lanceolate fasciae throughout the whole length, 

 continued round the body, but in an irregular or 

 alternating manner beneath the abdomen : head 

 rather small, and covered with large scales ; those 

 on the rest of the body of moderate size, and dis- 

 posed into about nineteen longitudinal rows ; and 

 as each scale is pretty strongly carinated, the body 

 appears as it were polygonal or angular : tail of 

 moderate length, and gradually tapering to the 

 tip: native of the East Indies, according to Lm- 

 nseus, but, if a snake described in Seba and quoted 

 by Linnaeus, be really the same species, it occurs 

 also in South America : it is observed to vary con- 

 siderably in the number of its abdominal and sub^ 

 caudal scales. 



