. Scientific American Volume 59 Number 04 (July 1888) . by a white, blackbordered arch, the convexity of which is turned back-ward. The whole arrangement offers the aspect of apair of spectacles, and has obtained for the animal oneof the names that it bears. The anterior portion ofthe ventral surface is whitish and marked with one ormore transverse black bands. Two of the museum specimens are colored in thisway. In one of them, however, the fundamental coloris not so dark, and in the third it is of a very palebrown. The characteristic cervical blotches are fre-quently more or less effaced or m
. Scientific American Volume 59 Number 04 (July 1888) . by a white, blackbordered arch, the convexity of which is turned back-ward. The whole arrangement offers the aspect of apair of spectacles, and has obtained for the animal oneof the names that it bears. The anterior portion ofthe ventral surface is whitish and marked with one ormore transverse black bands. Two of the museum specimens are colored in thisway. In one of them, however, the fundamental coloris not so dark, and in the third it is of a very palebrown. The characteristic cervical blotches are fre-quently more or less effaced or modified in form, oreven entirely absent. The spectacled adder attains considerable size. Thelargest of our specimens has a length that may be esti-mated approximately at five feet; but, among thenatural products exhibited by the Cingalese at theGarden of Acclimation, two years ago, there was acobras skin whose length beyond a doubt exceededsix feet. The serpent is oviparous, that is to say, the devel-opment of the embryo is effected wholly within the.
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