^04« PLAT-NOSED SNAKE. 



scales : eyes small : teeth minute : body slender 

 and smooth ; length about a spsLn : colour white, 

 with numerous, broad, brown bands, surrounding 

 the body, but narrower below than above : scales 

 on the body smallish, the skin, according to the 

 figure in the Avork above mentioned, appearing 

 between them, so as to cause a kind of reticular 

 variegation on the brown annuli : tail short, taper, 

 but rather obtuse : native of Ceylon. 



FLAT-NOSED SNAKE. 



Coluber Simus. C. nigricans^ albo transversim fasciatus, nasd 

 simo. 



Blackish Snake, with white transverse bands, and turned-up 

 nose. 



Coluber simus. Lin. Sijst. Nat. p. 275. 

 Abdominal scuta 124, subcaudal scales 4^. 



Length about a foot and half: head rather 

 large, roundish, the nose flat in front, and turned 

 up into a slightly pointed tip : between the eyes a 

 black curved band, and on the top of the head a 

 white cross-shaped mark with a black central spot : 

 body blackish or deep-brown, with white variega- 

 tions so disposed as to form a kind of transverse 

 bands : abdomen dusky : native of North America. 



