546 



LONG-SNOUTED SNAKE. 



each side : head roundish, much thicker than the 

 neck, covered with large scales : a double black 

 line beyond the eyes, and which, in passing along 

 the sides of the body, is occasionally interrupted : 

 ground-colour pale, variegated with scattered 

 grey spots and points : tail very slender towards 

 the tip, so that the scales are with difficulty 

 counted on that part : native of India : varies 

 considerably in the number of scuta, &c. 



LONG-SNOUTED SNAKE. 



Coluber Mycterizans. C. gracilis viridis, naso subtetragono elon- 

 gato acuminato, linea utrinque abdominalijlava. 



Slender green Snake, with subtetragonal lengthened sharps 

 pointed snout, and a yellow line on each side the abdomen. 



Blueish-green Snake. Catesh. Carol. 2. t. 47. 



Abdominal scuta 192, subcaudal scales l67* 



Colour grass-green, with a yellow line on each 

 side the abdomen : habit remarkably slender, mea- 

 suring about three feet and a half in length, and 

 about half an inch in diameter: head moderately 

 large, long, and very sharp-snouted, the upper 

 jaw running far beyond the lower, and being of 

 an obscurely tetragonal form : sometimes this spe- 

 cies varies in having an additional pair of yellow 

 abdominal lines, running down the middle of that 

 part : it is an innoxious snake, though erroneously 

 marked as poisonous in the Systema Nature, ow- 

 ing to the fang-like appearance of its large and 

 long teeth in the upper jaw. It is a native of 



