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TYRIAN SNAKE. 



Coluber Tyria. C. albidus, maculis rhomheis fuscis in triplici. 

 Whitish Snake, whith a triple series of dusky rhomboid spots. 

 Coluber Tyria. Lin, Lyst. Nat. Gmel. p. 1111, 

 Abdominal scuta 210, subcaudal scales 83. 



Described by HasselquLst : colour whitish, 

 with a triple longitudinal series of dusky rhom- 

 boid spots ; native of Egypt. 



PELIA SNAKE, 



Coluber Pelias. C. suhfiiscus fasciis transtersis duplkatis nigris, 



subtus viridis, linea later ali flam. 

 Brownish Snake, with double transverse black bands, beneath 



green, with a yellow lateral line. 

 Coluber Pelias. Lin. Syst. Nat. Gmel. 1111. 

 Abdominal scuta 187, subcaudal scales 130. 



, jSuFFiciENTLY described in its specific charac- 

 ter : observed by Linnaeus in the Museum of De- 

 geer : native of South America, and said to occur 

 also in India. In the distribution of its colours it 

 seems allied to the Coluber orriatus. 



EGG SNAKE, 



Coluber Ovivorus. Un. Syst. Nat. p. 385. 

 Abdominal scuta 203, subcaudal scales 73. 



Of this Linn^an snake nothing more seems to 

 be known than that it is a native of America : it 



