INDIAN SERPENTS. 
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skin is more yellow; but the principal distinction is in the spectacle-like mark on the hood, 
which here consists of an oblong, curved frame, without the usual black eye of the others; 
the skin in the middle being white, and the scales retaining their ordinary yellowish-brown 
colour. (PI. VI. Fig. 3.) 
Should this, as pretended by the snake-catchers, prove a constant character, it may per¬ 
haps be sufficient to constitute a variety. Goodum signifies wheat. 
Sankoo JYagoo. Abel. Scuta 183. Sub-caud. Squama 5 6. 
The chief distinction is the plain hood, without any mark. See PL VI. Fig. 4 ; and Seba, 
Vol. II. p. 102. T. 97 . 8cc. It was conceived by Seba, to be only the female of the species; 
but one I brought home with me from India, and presented to the late John Hunter, was a 
male; and it is certain that the spectacle-like mark on the hood, in the other varieties, is 
found indifferently in male and female. 
It is rarer than the other varieties; and takes the name Sankoo, from a shell so called, 
which is employed for glazing paper. 
Mogla jYagoo. Abd. Scuta 192. Sub-caud. Squama 65. 
This has received its name from frequenting the Galdiero hedges. The cervical scuta are 
here and there spotted with faint greyish spots, and four of the middle scuta are entirely of 
a bluish-grey. 
Malle JYagoo. Abd. Scuta 191. Sub-caud. Squama 62. 
The colour of this is a lighter brown, and the scuta are whiter, and less spotted ; but seven 
of the pectoral scuta are completely dark. Malle is a name for the Arabian jasmine. 
Gumboo JYagoo. Abd. Scuta 186. Suh-caud. Squama 60. 
Some deviations were observable in the shape of the laminae; all the cervical scuta were 
dusky, and the trunk had a strong bluish cast. 
Jonna JYagoo. Abd. Scuta 189. Sub-caud. Squama 57. 
An orange colour prevails in the skin of the hood; the scuta of the neck are spotted with 
grey, and six of the lower arc wholly of a bluish-grey. Jonna is the name of a small 
horse-grain. 
