AMPHIBIA. SERPENTS. 8. Coluber. 695 
Above alternately teffellate with black and brown, beneath 
black with white unequal fpots each fide ; head long, 
ihielded. 
Inhabits Japidia : refembles C. pethola. 
Plates of the belly 155 ; fcales of the tail 144* 
Inhabits Carolina; very Imooth ; entirely blue, beneath pale 
green. 
Plates of the belly 230; fcales of the tail 82. 
Inhabits near Cahiraj 4I feet long, and thick as a finger; 
above grey with large oval brown fpots on the back ; thofe 
on the fides fmall, fquare, notched, beneath entirely filky- 
white. 
Head flattiih, fubcordate ; crozon with 2 pale oblong fcales, 
1 2 times as large as the reft. 
Plates of the belly 225 ; fcales of the tail 78. 
Inhabits the Tyrolefe country ; 3 feet long ; covered with ehp- 
tic fcales ; brown, beneath yellowilh. 
Plates of the belly 248 ; fcales of the tail 59. 
Inhabits South America and India ; refembles a Boa, yet has 
plates, and large fcales on the head like the coluber. 
“tin. 
Plates of the belly 180 ; fcales of the tail ii 4 ' 
Inhabits the mountainous woods of Yemen in Arabia , a cu- 
bit and a half long, and as thick as a finger ; above brown- 
alh with a double longitudinal white ftripe each fide, and m 
the larger ones a fmall ftripe in the middle of the back com- 
pofed of white dots, beneath whitifh, growing yellow near 
the throat, and dotted with brown ; head oval, obtufe ; 
croton flat with large fcales ; tail half the length of the 
Spotted with black white. 
Inhabits Arabia ; a foot long, and nearly 2 inches thick ; its 
bite is Immediately fatal, the body fwelling to a great fize.j 
Entirely red. 
Inhabits Arabia ; a foot long ; its bite produces a burning u- 
mour, its breath is faid to caufe a violent itching. 
Hannafck, 
