INDIAN SERPENTS. 
9 
No. VIII. 
ANGUIS. 
Squamce Abdominales 33 8 
Squamce Subcaudales 4 8 
Called by the Natives Kalla Shootur Sun. 
The head small, a little broader than the neck, ovate, flattish on the crown and the 
sides. The front lamina trigonal; the pair perforated by the nostrils oblong, large; 
the next pair smaller, sub-orbicular ; the central lamina between the eyes, short, 
resembling the point of a lancet ; the lateral oval ; the semicordate pair narrow, deeply 
cleft at the base, and several laminae on each side. 
The mouth wide ; the under jaw somewhat shorter than the upper. There is a 
small fang on each side of the upper jaw, behind each of which, in a line more parallel 
to the palatal rows than in the preceding subject, are three common holders. The 
rest of the teeth are curve, as usual, but very small. 
The eyes high, small, orbicular. The nostrils nearly vertical, large. 
The trunk. The neck slender, round, swelling gradually into the body, which is 
rounder, and more proportionally shaped than any of the angues described in the 
present fasciculus ; the back convex, the sides declivous, the belly carinated. The tail 
more curve and obtuse, than in the others, and much thicker in the middle, but the 
margins thin, as in them. Most of the scales carinated ; on the neck oval, on other 
parts ovate, or orbicular, all imbricated : those on the belly not bigger than the 
rest. 
The length, three feet eleven ; of the tail, five inches and a half ; of the head, three- 
fourths of an inch. Circumference of the head, one inch. 
The colour. The neck a bluish black, with yellow bands ; the back likewise of a 
bluish black, but some shades lighter ; the sides and belly, yellow, encircled by faint 
darkish bands, to the end of the tail. 
REMARKS. 
No drawing accompanied the specimen of this serpent, and allowance should be 
made for alteration of colour produced by the spirits. 
PART II. 
