HALF-SPOTTED SNAKE. 621 



mates, destroying the smaller kind of noxious 

 animals : in its general appearance it is allied to 

 the Hippocrepis, being of a pale grey colour, spot- 

 ted with brown; its principal mark of distinction 

 being a double black spot between the eyes. 



HALF-SPOTTED SNAKE. 



Coluber Reginse. Cfiisco-violaceuSj suhtus albus, scutis alter-^ 

 natim macula laterali semiorbiculatafusca notatis. 



Violaceous-brown Snake, white beneath, with the scuta marked 

 alternately by a semiorbicular brown spot. 

 . Coluber Regin^. Lin. Syst. Nat. p. 378. Mus. Ad. Frid. p. 24. 

 t. 13. f. 3. 



Abdominal scuta 137? subcaudal scales 70. 



A SMALL species, about a foot in length: co- 

 lour purplish brown above, and white beneath, 

 the abdominal scuta marked alternately on one 

 side by a pretty large dusky half-round spot : the 

 tail is of moderate length, rather slender, and the 

 scales beneath are plain or unspotted : native of 

 India. 



V. III. P. II. 



