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DESCRIPTION OF 
The scales near the head contiguous ; on other parts imbricated : but all sub-orbicular, 
smooth, ciliated, splendent, and differ little in size. The subcaudal scutella, as in the 
two former subjects, are found here also, though in one specimen less expanded. 
The length ten inches, of which half an inch belongs to the tail. 
The colour. The head blackish, with two yellowish devaricating streaks from the 
crown, and two roundish spots of the same colour on the neck. The trunk above 
presents thirty-six pair of reddish-brown sub-orbicular spots of various sizes, with black 
margins of various breadths, an undulating black thread that runs along the ridge of the 
back serving as part of the margin to each pair. The yellowish-white abdomen is 
crossed by twenty-eight bands, broader, but of the same colour as the margins above, 
with which they are united ; in some places the belly appears tesselated black and white. 
OBSERVATIONS. 
This anguis was received from India without the country name, or mention from 
whence sent. 
There can be no doubt of this being the Anguis Maculata of Linnaeus, but it is 
remarkable that the difference in subcaudal squamae as given by Gronovius (no less than 
five) should not have been noticed by Linnaeus, who cites Gronovius ; and that the 
dilatation of the subcaudal squamae, as a deviation from the generic character, should 
have passed unnoticed by Linnaeus in his own description.* 
It should however be remarked that of two specimens, the expansion of squamae in 
one was less perceptible than in the other from which the drawing was made. 
No. XXX. 
COLUBER. 
Scuta Abdominalia 2201 
>281. 
Squama Subcaudales 6 1 J 
Called by the natives Ghunalee. 
The head broader than the neck, long oval, depressed above ; the rostrum compressed, 
obtuse. Between the nostrils are interposed two pentagonal laminae ; the next pair 
larger, sub -triangular ; behind which appear an unusual row of small laminae ; the 
shield-form lamina? exactly shaped, those on each side convex, sub-lunated ; the semi- 
* Mus. Ad. Ic. p. St- 
