THE 
ACROCHORDUS, 
OR 
x WARTED SNAKE. 
Generic Character. 
Tubercles refembling warts covering the whole 
body. 
Specific Character, &c. 
BROWN ACROCHORDUS, paler beneath; 
with the Tides oblcurely variegated with 
whitilh. 
Hornstedt. defer. 
Mem: del'Acad: des Sciences de Stockholm. 1787. 
P . 306. 
‘Journal de Phyjtque • 1788. p. 284* 
The Acrochordus differs from all the reft of the 
ferpent tribe in being covered all over with innu¬ 
merable muricated wart-like prominences. It there¬ 
fore forms a diftindl genus, of which the fpecies here 
reprefented is the only one at prefent known. It is 
an inhabitant of Java, and is principally found 
amongit 
