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DESCRIPTION OF 
whom I was obliged also for specimens of many other snakes, remarked in his letter, that 
this Dameen was not, even by the natives, pretended to be venomous. 
No. XXVI. 
COLUBER. 
Abdominal Scuta 17 11 
( 212 - 
Sub-caudal Squama 4 1J 
Called by the natives Karetta. 
This snake, which is not venomous, was found at Hyderabad; but the description of it 
having been lost, or mislaid, I had it only in my power to give the drawing. 
No. XXVII. 
COLUBER. 
,264. 
Abdominal Scuta I 7 6 
Sub-cciudal Squama SS 
Called by the natives Gondanarouse . Coluber lineatus, Linn. Syst. Nat. p. 9 82. 
The head broader than the neck, oblong, ovate, depressed above ; compressed towards 
the rostrum ; covered with nine laminae: the first pair between the nostrils, sub-triangular; 
the next roundish; the middle laminae of the three between the eyes, lancet-form; the late¬ 
ral, pyramidal; the last pair oblong-semi-cordate. 
The mouth middle size ; the lower jaw longer than the upper. The teeth , below, and in 
the two palatal rows of the upper jaw, numerous, short, reflex; but the fore-teeth in the 
marginal row, above, I’emarkably long. 
The eyes lateral, large, oval. The nostrils small. 
The trunk round, swelling elegantly from the neck to the tail; covered with oblong-oval, 
smooth, scales. The length , two feet four inches and a half; circumference, two inches one 
fourth. 
The tail , very taper, slender, sharp pointed; in length, seven inches and a half. 
Colour: the head is of a light brown ; a yellow streak behind each eye; the trunk and tail 
are striped with seven longitudinal bands, or fillets; of which the middlemost, and the two 
exterior towards the belly, are of a darker brown, with a greenish cast, and broader than the 
others ; two of the other four are almost black, and two of a greenish yellow. The scuta and 
