684 
BipCS. 
AMPHIBIA. SERPENTS. 8. Coluber- 
Pli^tes of -the belly 1 16 ; fcales of the tail 58. . pn 
Inhabits in the waters of the Tyroleje. country ; - 
flor- 
and flfh ; has a feet ; ev« tawny ; lower y-- . 
fal fcales elliptic, marginate ; fides fpotted with . jjjp. 
v/hite ; f 
of the belly whitifh, with a brown fpot in the niu 
Rhonhoi- Plates of the belly 157 ; fcales of the tail 70. . 
dius, \vdmh\ti Sovth America iTid India, Blijcifli-"''b'^^ bl'i®’'' 
with black," and a triple row of ihbrhomboid fpot*> 
the middle. 
Plates of the belly 16 1 ; fcales of the tail 59. _ 
Inhabits India. Pale yellowifh-brosvn, marked de^P 
length of the back with a continued chain of edS^fy 
brown fpots, with paler middles and narrow 
beneath white with a few dulky ipots; i!- ^ 
poifonous. 
Cyaneus. Plates of tjie bplly 1 19 ; fcales of the tail 1 10. 
Inhabits America. Deep blue ; beneath greeniflif 
tflatrixt Plates of the belly 170 ; fcales of the tail 60. 
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Inhabits Europe ; lives ufually in hedges, flirubberk*’ 
buildings; is fond of fun-fliine and heat ; depO'US^^^j ii) 
in dung-heaps or under rotten trees, which are coiu' 
mafs by means of a muctis ; 3 feet q inches long- 
Body above blackifir, with 3 white fpot each fid® 
hack fubgjiiate; fcales of the back oblong-ovaii 
‘ddl^ ... ... 
the middle^ difpofed in iq rolv-s ; beneath whlt®i 
v'cllowiflr or broiATiifl), with a longitudinal irregu*® ’ 
beginning at the >5 
tl>f 
black ftripc down tlie middl 
fncnit acute. 
2. Elackifli-browii, with a few ydlowifii fpots J 
cinereous. . I'f 
3- Head on the fore-part variegated ; a fhort blaek 
tween the eyes, a very long one on 3 m 
nape with 2 larger fpots, wltich are fiicceede 
ones and continued down the back, yello"^ 
centre, and confiifed at the extremity. 
4.. Hind-head w'ith a flame-coloured fpot and blotched' 
5. Blue, with blatk fpots and tranfverfe waved ll”^®'..u bl‘*‘' ' 
6. BltJC, with a white line each fide, fprinklcd 'VJ 
fpots ; belly white, with a black fpot each ii ' 
