CORONELLA MULTI MACU LATA.— Smith. 
Reptilia. — Plate LXI. 
C. superne pallide rubra carneo-tincta et maculis rubris, fasciolisque brevibus variegata ; inferne sub- 
flava, scutis postice striis brunneis brevibus notatis ; corporis squamis in seriebus 17 dispositis. 
Longitudo & nasi apice ad basin caudse 11 unc. 2 lin. ; caudte 1 unc. 10 lin. 
Colour. — The upper and lateral parts of the head, body, and tail, inter- 
mediate between tile-red and lake-red, the tint pale. The upper lip, the 
lower lip, the abdomen, and the under surface of the tail, cream-yellow. 
The upper and lateral parts of the body and tail are, besides, freely variegated 
with other colours, the remaining parts more sparingly, some not at all. On 
the sides of the body where the variegations are most abundant, they consist 
of numerous small brown spots not exactly arranged in rows, yet, when 
closely observed, they appear, on some places at least, placed in three series ; 
on the tail, where they also exist, and are rather larger, they are less regularly 
disposed, and the centre of many of them, as well as of most of those of the 
sides, is of a faint lilac-purple hue. Immediately behind the head, on the 
back, there exists a narrow curved brown line, assuming somewhat the form 
of a horse-shoe, or of the letter U reversed. Behind this mark, the middle of 
the back is crossed by a number of short lilac-purple bars, each with a small 
liver-brown spot on its anterior and posterior edge. In some individuals 
there is an oblique liver-brown line crossing the temple, originating at the 
hinder corner of the eye, and terminating behind the angle of the mouth. The 
variegations on the abdomen consist of short transverse brown stripes on the 
hinder margin of some of the plates ; on those on which they occur there is 
either one spot towards each extremity, or only one towards one of the extremi- 
ties ; besides these stripes, the hinder margin of each plate is of a greenish 
yellow hue. The under surface of the tail is without variegations. 
Form, &c. — Figure slender ; body everywhere nearly of equal thickness. 
