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DESCRIPTION OF 
The eyes sub-oval, protuberant. The nostrils near the point of the rostrum, open. 
The trunk round, swelling and diminishing regularly; covered with oblong-oval,carinated 
scales. The subject described measured two feet two inches; circumference in the middle 
of the trunk, about three inches. The tail round, very taper, with a sharp point; the length 
five inches and a half. 
The colour , a yelkmish brown; the back and sides thick set with rhomboidal spots, 
brown in the middle, with black borders; the spots growing fainter towards the tail. The 
scuta are of a bright mother-of-pearl; the tail is not spotted, and the sub-caudal squamae are 
of a reddish white. 
OBSERVATIONS. 
This snake is common ; and is not by the natives reckoned pernicious. It usually fre¬ 
quents damp grounds, or the borders of tanks; and grows to a much larger size than the one 
now described. 
No. XXL 
COLUBER. 
125 4. 
Abdominal Scuta 192 4 
Sub-caudal Squamte 62 
Called by the natives JSooni Paragoodoo. 
The head broader than the neck, oblong-ovate, depressed. The anterior pair of laminae 
between the nostrils, roundish ; the next larger, pentagonal; of the three between the eyes, 
the lateral, conical; the middle one, shield-form, acuminate; the posterior pair, obtuse, se¬ 
mi-cordate. 
The mouth large ; the labial scales with yellow, rounded, margins. The upper jaw emar- 
ginate. The teeth very small, reflex, sharp, numerous: two palatal rows above, and one 
marginal. 
The eyes lateral, middle size, orbicular, prominent. The nostrils near the rostrum, very 
small. 
The trunk covered with smooth, imbricate, orbicular, and ovate scales. The length, two 
feet. Circumference, near the head, one inch and a fourth: towards the middle of the 
trunk, two inches and a half. The tail very small, especially towards the end; in length 
four inches. 
The colour , cineritious-grey, with an obscure cast of reddish brown, particularly about the 
