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EIGHT-LINED SNAKE. 



Coluber Octolineatus. C. suhferrugineus, lineis octo nigris, 

 Subferruginous Snake, with eight black lines. 

 Abdominal scuta 185 ? subcaudal scales 65 ? 



A SMALL Snake, about the size of a middling 

 earthworm : colour pale ferruginous, marked by 

 eight distinct black lines or stripes from head to 

 tail ; the two principal ones running down the top 

 of the back, and the rest, which are narrower, 

 down the sides : head scarce larger than the neck, 

 large-scaled, blunt-nosed, and marked over the 

 snout by a transverse black band passing through 

 the eyes : the two principal or dorsal stripes unite 

 in a sharp point on the top of the head : abdomen 

 white: tail short, measuring about an inch and 

 half, and tapering pretty suddenly. Described 

 from specimens in the British Museum, having the 

 appearance of very young animals : native coun- 

 try unknown. 



INTESTINAL SNAKE, 



Coluber Intestinalis. C. svbferrvginensj supra lineis tribus albis, 

 dorsali super caput bifurca, abdomine albo nigrogue mrio. 



Subferruginous Snake, marked above by three white lines, the 

 dorsal one forked on the head, the abdomen variegated with 

 black and white. 



Serpentula gracilis longa Guineensis. Seb. 2. t. 2.f. 7. 



A SMALL, slender species, described and figured 

 b}^ Seba, measuring about a foot and half in 



