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of the three between the eyes, funnel-shape ; the lateral, projecting over the eyes, 
broad, pyramidal ; the semi-cordate regularly formed. 
The mouth rather wide ; there are no fangs ; but a complete marginal row of teeth 
above. The eyes oval, large, lateral, placed in grooves, which extend to the nostrils. 
The nostrils very small, and distant from each other. 
The trunk , thicker in all its proportions than that of the Coluber Mycterizans, but 
tail long, slender, and taper to a sharp point. The scales smooth, linear or oblong on 
the upper part of the trunk, though rather tending more to oval than in the Coluber 
Mycterizans, or the Bolla Passerchi formerly described.* 
The length, four feet eleven inches, of which the tail measures one foot eight. 
The colour green as in the Coluber Mycterizans, and a yellow thread runs also along 
each side of the scuta, and subcaudal squamae, from the throat to the end of the tail. 
OBSERVATIONS. 
This subject was received from Java, and I had no doubt of its being the green 
serpent found in Seba, to which I have referred. 
Its similitude to the Coluber Mycterizans is striking at first sight ; but besides its 
general habitude, the straight pointed rostrum sufficiently distinguishes it. 
No. XXV. 
COLUBER. 
Scuta Abdominalia 186. 
Squama Subcauclales 153. 
Called by the natives, Mancas in Guzerat. 
Rooka in Mahratta. 
The head somewhat broader than the neck, oblong, flattened on the crown, and also 
on the sides from the eyes to the obtuse or rounded rostrum. Two square laminae divide 
the nostrils ; the next pair larger, of the same shape ; the middle lamina between the 
eyes funnel-shaped ; those on the side large ; the semicordate pair regularly shaped, 
with some large scales on each side of the point. 
The mouth large. Two rows of teeth above ; no fangs. The eyes oval and remarkably 
large. The nostrils rather large. 
The trunk cylindrical, elegantly shaped. A remarkable series of oblong-round scales 
on the ridge of the back, and a row of pentagonal scales on each side of the scuta ; the 
* Coromandel Serpents, No. XIII. 
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