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AMPHIBIA. SERPENTS. 8. Coluber. 677 
Inhabits fwampy and filthy places near the Volga and Samara : 
of the fize and appearance of C. bevus. 
Irids brown ; pupils lanceolate vertically with a filvery edge ; 
body black, opaqne, beneath poliflied, with darker fpots ; 
on the Jides, and towards the chin, waved with blueifh ; tail 
fhert, conic. 
Plates of the belly 135 ; fcales of the tail 42. 
Whitifh with tranfverfe very broad fpots, mixed black and 
white. 
Plates of the belly 131 ; Rales of the tail 46. 
Inhabits the South America iflands. Livid, beneath with a 
quadruple row of brown dots ; Jidcs with brown cohaarent 
fpots, thofe on the fore-part ocellate with a white pupil. 
Bead covered with broad fcales, roundifh oval, each fide taper- 
ing ; mouth rounded ; fnout ohtufe ; trunk like C. natrix, 
but more thick and flout-; tail thick, rather blunt. 
Black above, white beneath ; back with oblique ftreaks ; 
hind-parts with oblique bands. 
Inhabits New Spain : head, trunk and tail like C. plicatilis. 
P^eep black, with white, unequal fpots and dots. 
Inhabits New Spain ; relembles the laft. 
Plates of the belly 118 ; fcales of the tail 60. 
Inhabits AJia. White with blackifh bands, uniting beneath. 
Plates of the belly I2i ; fcales of the tail 58- 
Inhabits South America and India. Entirely white. 
Plates of the belly 136 ; fcales of the tail 4:3. 
Inhabits Carolina. Cinereous, beneath as far as the tip of the _ , 
tail pale yellow with a triple row of black dots difpofed in ' 
threes. 
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Plates of the belly 107 ; fcales of the tail 72. 
Inhabits South America zs\A India. White; triangular po 
above the noftrils, 2 dots on the crown, 2 very bre^ fpots 
on the back, which fill nearly the whole furface, all brown. 
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