<-«Uc 
AMPHIBIA. SERPENTS. §. Coluber. 679 
4 - Arch of the hind-head intercepting a white fpot. 
Inliabits India, 
5 " Spot on the head many parted. 
Inhabits the Celebes. 1 
Plates of the belly 135: fcales of the tail 48. 
White with black fpots. 
Plates of the belly 150 : fcales of the tail 34- 
Inhabits' low fhrubby places in Sweden ; is fomething like tlic 
berus, but more fpeedily fatal, if the place bitten be not in- 
flantly e.xtlrpated ; 9 I inches long ; left than the berus 
and much deeper bay ; along the back a dark indented line 
head oval; trunk round. 
%h 
©• 
Coi 
’A 
-'f, 
'‘‘cui 
Plates of the belly 153; fcales of the tail 31. 
Inhabits woods in the mountainous parts of Siberia , half a foot 
long, and about as thick as a finger; not very Monous, 
above deep black, opaque, beneath polilhed, milk-white , 
head fomewhat hearted. 
Plates of the belly 153 ; fcales of the tail 32. . 
Inhabits northern Afa and Europe as far as f 
latter place it is not venomous. Totally black 
fpots lanceolate with a longitudinal ridge, Ups va- 
ried with black and white dots. 
Plates of the belly 1 52 : fcales of the , 
Inhabits and near me icu. 
bricate wth very minute fcales ■, body wuh alternate, tranf- 
, verle, fhort ftreaks, difpofed in 4 longitudinal rows, the imd- 
dle ones on the fote-part confluent, beneath tawny. Its bite 
is fpeedily fatal. 
Eatirely brown, comprelTed: back carinate, fcales of the 
ridge larger': head elongate, roundifli. ^ 
Cinereous with fpots edged with brown and pale yellow 
on the dilk. . -.i, , 
Head compreffed, white at the fides, “^^Hs ; hind- 
brownifh line running each fide before the 
head with 2 triangular fpots ; back with a trip c r P 
tic fpots, larger in the middle. Glaucus. 
