DESCRIPTION OF 
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marginal row, only two palatal rows of teeth, numerous, reflex, equal, sharp, smaller than 
those below. Two fangs, one longer than the other, are generally found emergent from the 
sac on each side. 
The eyes rather small, lateral, orbicular, prominent. The nostrils very near the apex of 
the rostrum, lateral, large, gaping. 
The neck, when the animal is at test, is very little thicker than the head; but the loose 
skin of the neck being capable, in a peculiar manner, of extension, forms, when the animal 
is provoked, what is called the hood, which constitutes the principal character of the species. 
The spectacle-like mark on the hood, is partly formed by the colour of the interstitial skin, 
discovered in consequence of the separation of the scales; but from Figures 1,2 ,3, PL VI. 
it will appear, that the tint of the scales themselves contributes also, especially in respect 
to the dark colours; and hence the mark remains in some degree visible in the collapsion 
of the skin, after death. 
The trunk, round, covered with scales comparatively small, oval, polished, contiguous, 
hardly (except on the hinder part and tail,) imbricate, in the living subject; but two rows 
on each side of the belly, consist of larger scales, ovate, and imbricate. 
The length four feet; the circumference of the middle of the trunk, four inches. The tail 
round, measures nine inches, covered with sub-orbicular scales, and tapers gradually to a 
sharp, horny, point. 
The colour, a yellowish, light-brown; but in certain positions, the glistening scales reflect 
a faint bluish-ash colour. The interstitial skin is generally white, and the edges of many 
scales being also white, makes them appear less contiguous than they really are. 
The abdominal scuta are very long; the sub-caudal squamae hexagonal; both are of a dull 
white, freckled with dusky spots. The colours of the spectacle-mark are bright; (PL V.) 
but the orange tint of the interstitial skin is not so deep, as in some other species. 
After so minute a description of the Tamarind Cobra do Gapello, it will be sufficient 
merely to mention a few of the other varieties I have examined, briefly noting undereach, 
any remarkable circumstances that may occur. 
Arege JVagoo. Abel. Scuta 189. Sub-caud. Squama 60. 
The spectacle-mark (PI. VI. Fig. 1.) differs somewhat from the former PI. V. The cervical 
scuta (PI. VI. Fig. 2.) are remarkably dark, especially live of them. Two black spots on the 
inside of the hood (which are common to most of the other varieties,) are also represented 
in that figure. 
Arege is the name of one of the small grains eat by horses. 
Coodum JVagoo. Abd. Scuta 187. Sub-caud. Squama 57. 
The colour in this variety is rather darker than that in the others, and the colour of the 
