VITTATED SNAKE. 



Coluber Vittatus. C. albido-ccerulescens, tittis tribus nigricanti- 

 bus intermedia angustissima, abdomine albo, scutis fuifco inaV' 

 ginatis. 



-Blueisli-white Snake, with three blackish stripes, the middk 

 one extremely narrow, and white abdomen with the scuta, 

 bordered with brown. 



Serpens Rotang, Sec, 1.4. 35. f. 4. 



Coluber de T^irugona. Seb. 2. t. 60.f. 2, 3. 



Coluber vittatus. Lin. Si/sf. Nat. p. 380. 



Abdominal scuta 142, subcaudal scales 78. 



A MIDDLE-SIZED spccics, of a moderately slen- 

 der habit, growing to the length of about two ^ 

 feet and a half: colour pale blue or whitish ; 

 marked down the whole length of the back by 

 three black or deep-brown stripes, the middle one 

 being much narrower than the others: between the 

 middle and the side-stripes are also interposed a 

 pair of extremely narrow or linear stripes, which 

 are gradually lost or obliterated after passing some 

 distance down the back : the head is rather small 

 than large, of a longish form, but not sharp- 

 snouted, covered w^th large scales, and marked 

 above by black variegations, two narrow bands 

 passing over the snout, a much broader one pass- 

 ing horizontally between the eyes, and being dilat- 

 ed behind into a large lobated patch on the top of 

 the head, with two very small, oval, white spots in 

 the middle : the hinder divisions of this patch are 

 continued to some little distance on each side the 

 neck into two or three ovate black spots, from the 

 last of which commence the very narrow or linear 



