1831 E. Griffith et al. IX. 274 Named Spectacled Serpent, from a black line drawn on the widened part of its disk in the form of spectacles.
1861 R. T. Hulme tr. C. H. Moquin-Tandon ii. v. i. 259 The Naia or Spectacled Serpents—called also the Hooded Snakes.