INDIAN SERPENTS. 
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No. X. 
ANGUIS. 
Squama Abdominal es 306 
Squama Subcaudales 52 
Called by the natives Hoogli pattee. 
The head oblong, obtuse, bulges behind, and thicker than the neck. The front 
lamina small, but trigonal as usual ; the next pair, perforated by the nostrils, oblong, 
remarkably large ; the pair immediately behind similar in shape, but placed obliquely, 
and receiving between them the point of the middle oval lamina, of the three between 
the eyes ; the lateral sub-lunate ; in the centre of the semicordate laminae, there is an 
uncommon oval one divided longitudinally, which, having been observed in several 
subjects, would appear to be not accidental. 
The mouth, proportionally large. In the upper jaw, on each side, there is a small 
poison fang, behind which, placed obliquely (as in No. VII.*) are two or three common 
teeth. The palatal rows, and the teeth in the under jaw are small. 
The eyes oval. The nostrils gaping. 
The trunk. The neck roundish ; the back rounded ; the sides declivous, compressed ; 
the belly carinate. The tail flat, curve, round pointed, the edges very thin. The scales 
ovate ; on the back carinated and imbricate ; on the sides smooth, orbicular, contiguous, 
on the carina of the belly smooth, small, ovate, imbricate. 
The length, three feet and half an inch ; of the tail five inches ; of the head one inch 
two lines. Circumference of the head one inch eight lines. 
The colour of the head, back, and tail, blue ; the sides and belly pale buff. 
OBSERVATIONS. 
A fowl bitten in the thigh, by this reptile, expired in five minutes. 
* Vide p. s. 
