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DECOROUS SNAKE. 



Coluber Decorus. C. cceruleo-'virescens, fascia utrinque diipUci 



nigra, collo utrinque nigro maculato. 

 Blueish-green Snake, with a double lateral black band, and 



the neck spotted on each side with black. 

 Abdominal scuta 170, subcaudal squamae 132. 



Habit slender and flagelliform : length about 

 two feet and a half : colour pale, blueish, gilded 

 green, with iridescent variegations : beneath paler 

 or more inclining to white : on each side the body, 

 near the abdomen, a double black stripe : head 

 longish, large scaled, unspotted, and marked on 

 each side, through the eyes, by a broadish black 

 stripe broken into spots, and which, passing to 

 some little distance along the neck, becomes di- 

 vided, and forms the double lateral stripe before 

 mentioned : eyes large : tail very long, slender, 

 and gradually tapering to a fine point. Described 

 from a specimen in the British Museum. 



BILINEATED SNAKE. 



Coluber Bilineatus. C. rufus,fasciis duabus luteis. 

 Rufous Snake, with two gold-yellow stripes. 

 La Double-Raie. Cepede Serp. p. 220. pL 10. f. 2. 

 Abdominal scuta 205, subcaudal scales 99. 



This is described by the Count de Cepede, who 

 informs us that it is a beautiful species, mea- 

 suring about two feet one inch in total length, 



