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TJENIATED SNAKE. 



. Coluber Tncniatus. C. glaucus, fasciis duahus nigris latissimis, 

 laterihus nigro maculatis, scutis utrinque macula semiorbkulata 

 nigra. 



Glaucous Snake, with two very broad black bands, the sides 

 spotted with black, and the scuta marked on each side by a 

 semiorbicular black spot. 



Abdominal scuta 148, subcaudal scales 67* 



Size and proportion of Berus : general colour 

 glaucous ; abdomen paler : along the back, from 

 head to tail, an extremely broad and conspicuous 

 pair of black fillets, leaving a whitish space in the 

 middle : sides of the body below the fillets blue 

 and spotted, as in the ringed snake, with black 

 marks , scuta marked on each side at a small di- 

 stance from their commencement, by a smallish 

 semi-orbicular black spot : head obtuse, covered 

 with large scales, and marked by a dilated black- 

 ish spot and a sharp-pointed white line pointing 

 towards the snout: tail slender, and gradually 

 tapering to a point. Described from a specimen 

 in the British Museum. 



V. III. p. 11. 



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