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DESCRIPTION OF 
JYella Pas Pam. Abel. Scula I 86. Sub-caud. Squama 62. 
The black on the hoocl unusually deep, and all the jugular scuta remarkably dusky: 
hence its name. 
mstna Nagoo. Abd. Scuta 186. Sub-caud. Squama 6 3. 
The middle lamina of the three between the eyes remarkably broad, and the posterior 
pair sub-ovate, not semi-cordate. Five of the jugular scuta dusky, and six of the pectoral 
almost black. 
Korie JVagoo. Abd. Scuta 18 4. Sub-caud. Squama 57. 
The three laminae between the eyes remarkably narrow; the large posterior pair oval. 
The colour of the trunk, more especially of the scuta, unusually bluish. 
OBSERVATIONS. 
I have already remarked, that the specific distinctions supposed by the natives, were 
extremely vague ; and, so far as my experiments went, that the venomous power of the 
reputed varieties, were, under the same circumstances, apparently equal. A more parti¬ 
cular account of these experiments, and of other matters relating to the poison of the Cobra 
de Gapello, will be given hereafter: it may be sufficient to observe here, as a standard for 
comparison with other serpents, that I never knew its bite prove mortal to a dog, in less 
than twenty-seven minutes; and to a chicken, in less than half a minute. 
No. VII. 
COLUBER. 
Abdominal Scuta 168 
Sub-caudal Scuta 5 9 
Called by the natives Katuka Rehda Poda. 
The head large, much broader than the neck, gibbous, or swelling behind, depressed 
above, compressed on the sides, and narrowing from the eyes, terminates in an obtuse snout, 
faced with a pyramidal, emarginate lamina: the labial and sub-jugular squamae are large 
and smooth, but the rest of the head is covered with small, ovate, highly carinated scales, 
without any of the usual large laminae. 
