5^8 



f ASCIOLATED SNAKE. 



Coluber Fasciolatus. C. cinereus, fasciis transDerm albidisj ah- 



domine glauco. 



Cinereous Snake, with whitish transverse bands and glaucous 

 abdomen. 



Nooni Paragoodoo. Russ. Ind. Serp. p. 26. pi. 21. 

 Abdominal scuta 192, subcaudal scales 62. 



Length about two feet : habit rather slender : 

 colour grey-brown, marked with equidistant nar- 

 rowish, transverse white bands spotted on the 

 edges with black : head ovate, of moderate size, 

 and large-scaled: tail slender, and tapering to a 

 point : abdomen dusky pearl-coloured : native of 

 India, where its bite is popularly believed to be 

 mortal ; but Dr. Russel's experiments on chickens 

 prove this notion to be entirely erroneous, the ani- 

 mal being unprovided with fangs. 



BIPED SNAKE. 



Coluber Bipes. Lin. Syst. Nat. Gmel. p. IO99. Scop, Ann. 

 Hist, Nat. 2. p. 39- 



A SOMEWHAT doubtful spccics, mentioned by 

 Scopoli as an inhabitant of the Tyrolese waters, 

 and said to be furnished with two short processes 

 or feet, and to have red eyes, elliptic dorsal scales, 

 and the lateral ones spotted with white : scuta 

 Avhitish, with a dusk}^ spot in the middle : perhaps 

 no other than a variety of the Natriv, 



