CGRORELLA MTJLTIMACXJIATA
Septilia., Plate 61.
CORONELLA MULTIMACULATA.—S m it h .
R e p t il ia .— P la te LXI.
C. superne pallide rubra cameo-tincta et maculis rubris, fasciolisque brevibus variegata; inferne sub-
flava, scutis postice striis brunneis brevibus notatis; corporis squamis in seriebus 17 dispositis.
Longitudo b nasi apice ad basin caudee 11 unc. 2 lin.; caucUe 1 unc. 10 lin.
C olou r .—The upper and lateral parts of the head, body, and tail, intermediate
between tile-red and lake-red, the tint pale. The upper lip, the
lower lip, the abdomen, and the under surface of the tail, cream-yellow.
The upper and lateral parts of the body and tail are, besides, freely variegated
with other colours, the remaining parts more sparingly, some not at all. On
the sides of the body where the variegations are most abundant, they consist
of numerous small brown spots not exactly arranged in rows, yet, when
closely observed, they appear, on some places at least, placed in three series ;
on the tail, where they also exist, and are rather larger, they are less regularly
disposed, and the centre of many of them, as well as of most of those of the
sides, is of a faint lilac-purple hue. Immediately behind the head, on the
back, there exists a narrow curved brown line, assuming somewhat the form
of a horse-shoe, or of the letter U reversed. Behind this mark, the middle of
the back is crossed by a number of short lilac-purple bars, each with a small
liver-brown spot on its anterior and posterior edge. In some individuals
there is an oblique liver-brown line crossing the temple, originating at the
hinder corner of the eye, and terminating behind the angle of the mouth. The
variegations on the abdomen consist of short transverse brown stripes on the
hinder margin of some of the plates ; on those on which they occur there is
either one spot towards each extremity, or only one towards one of the extremities
; besides these stripes, the hinder margin of each plate is of a greenish
yellow hue. The under surface of the tail is without variegations.
F orm, &c.—Figure slender; body everywhere nearly of equal thickness.