Coluber doliatus. Hooped 
Snake. Headfmalland narrow: 
back eroded with black ftripes, 
ranged in pairs, and forming 
rings, by uniting on the Tides: 
fides below the rings irregularly 
marked: ground colour a yel- 
lowifh white: belly plain: length 
one foot eight inches. Scuta 160: 
feales 40. 
Inhabits Carolina, and perhaps 
other North American provin¬ 
ces. 
The fpecies forming this ge¬ 
nus being very numerous, it 
would afiift us greatly in dif- 
, tinguilhing them, were they ar¬ 
ranged under two heads; viz. 
Vipers and Snakes ; the former 
have a broad flat head, move 
flowly, are viviperous, and their 
bite is attended with bad confe- 
quences. The latter, have their 
head fmall and narrow, and their 
bite does not appear to be at¬ 
tended with any very bad efFeft: 
are aftive, and in their mode of 
breeding oviviperous. Another 
character might doubtlefs be 
drawn from their teeth. 
