INDIAN SERPENTS. 
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OBSERVATIONS. 
I had no opportunity of making trials with the living snake, but from its want of poison 
organs, I conclude it to be innocuous. 
The C. Stolatus of Linnaeus, is marked poisonous; but that this is a mistake, has been 
very justly observed by Dr. Gray.* The present subject has a marginal row of teeth above, 
but no fangs. 
This specimen was sent by Dr. Roxburgh from Raja Mundrah in 1 7 88, without a name; 
but I afterwards received two specimens from Ganjam, sent by Mr. Snodgrass, under two 
different names, though with no material difference in other respects. 
Scut. Squam. 
Neerogady 146 7 7 223 
Neergady 147 7 1 218 
No. XI. 
COLUBER. 
Abdominal Scuta 14 5' 
Sub-caudal Squama; 6 6 J 
Called by the natives Wanna Gogli , Wanna Pam. Coluber Stolatus , Linn. Syst. Nat. p. 37 9. 
This agreeing in all material points with No. X. is certainly only a variety of the same 
species, and therefore requires no minute description. In comparing the figures, some varia¬ 
tion may be remarked in the form of the laminae of the head: in the present subject the 
anterior pair are more exactly triangular, and the posterior truncate; but both specimens 
have carinated scales, and are destitute of poison organs. The principal distinction consists 
in the colour, and that might perhaps have suffered some alteration from the spirits. 
The prevalent colour dark, with a greenish cast. From the neck to the tail on each side 
runs a yellowish-brown fillet; and the neck, as well as the anterior half of the back, have 
between these fillets a number of cross, black, bands, which are continued on the sides, 
without intersecting the fillets. The scuta were of a dusky yellow, changed perhaps by the 
spirits. The above memorandum was taken at the time. 
* Philosophical Transactions, Vol. 7 9 . Part I. 
