INDIAN SERPENTS. 
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No. XXXIII. 
COLUBER. 
JAVA. 
Scut# 168. 
Squama 8 4 . 
The head ovate, obtuse, a little broader than the neck, depressed, covered chiefly with 
small orbicular smooth scales behind, the laminae extending only to the crown. The first 
pair of laminas large, round, and perforated by the nostrils. Behind these are two tri- 
angular, and one diamond shape: all these are black. The next pair roundish. The 
semicordate very short. 
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The mouth proportional ; a complete marginal row (of teeth) above. No fangs. The 
eyes small. The nostrils vertical, very minute. 
The trunk cylindrical, and covered with very small,' oval, close (slightly carinated) 
scales. The tail short, tapering to a small obtuse point. The row of scales next the 
scute are not larger than the others. The middle lamina between the eyes, narrow, lance 
shape ; the lateral (ones) broad. 
The length one foot one inch, of which the tail measures three inches. 
The colour black (or very dark brown), with cross bands of dusky yellow, at equal dis- 
tances, half surrounding the trunk, from the neck to the end of the tail : a remarkable 
cowl of the same dusky yellow on the hind head. The scute are of a lighter yellow, 
with a row of distant black spots on each side. The under part of the tail speckled with 
black. 
No. XXXIV. 
COLUBER. 
JAVA 
Scuta 140. 
Squama 42. 
The head hardly thicker than the neck, oblong, ovate, The first pair of laminas tri- 
gonal ; and the second, irregularly square, rounded. The shield-form lamina sharp- 
pointed; the lateral lamina conical, the semi-cordate pair truncate. 
