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DESCRIPTION OF 
The tail very short, tapering suddenly, and terminating in a blunt point. In length, two 
inches three fourths. 
The colour of the laminae on the head, black; the occiput, the sides of the mouth, and 
the throat, yellowish-white. The back and the tail, black, elegantly variegated with two 
minute, white lines, or rows of dots, on each scale. The scuta or sub-caudal squamae are of 
the same colour with the throat. 
OBSERVATIONS. 
This specimen was sent by Mr. Snodgrass from Ganjam, under the name Jara Potoo; 
but my snakeman called it Candee Poda. 
No. XV. 
COLUBER. 
Abdominal Scuta 22 9 235 237 
Sub-caudal Squama 8 7 85 97 
316 320 334 
Called by the natives Tar Tutta. 
The head much broader than the neck, small, round, ovate, obtuse, depressed; covered 
with nine laminae: the two smallest, between the nostrils, angular; the next two, irregular 
square-form; of the three between the eyes, the middle one largest, and broad shield-form, 
the lateral crescent-shape; the posterior pair cordate. 
The mouth wide; lower jaw a little shorter than the upper. Teeth small, numerous, reflex; 
a marginal, and two palatal rows, in the upper jaw. 
The eyes, near the nose, very large, orbicular, protuberant. JVostrils small, open, near 
the point of the rostrum. 
The trunk; the back slightly carinated; the scales close, oval, polished. The length, one 
foot eleven inches; circumference of the neck, three fourths of an inch ; thickest part of the 
trunk, two inches three fourths. 
The tail thin, round, tapering to a very small point, which renders it difficult, near the 
tip, to count the sub-caudal scales: in length, five inches. 
The colour (in the subject described,) was a light bay, variegated remarkably on the back 
and sides, with a waving chain of triangular spots, composed of oblique, short, black, lines, 
intermixed with white, or yellowish lines. These spots growing fainter as they approach 
the anus, are hardly visible on the tail. 
