CORONELLA 



203 



Coloration. — Brown, greyish, yellowish, or reddish 

 above, with dark brown or black spots or transverse 

 bars, sometimes with four dark stripes in addition ; 

 dark dots in front of the apical pits as in the preceding 

 species ; a pair of elongate dark spots or a U-shaped 

 marking on the nape ; a dark streak from the eye 

 to the angle of the mouth, and a dark cross-bar 

 from eye to eye, across the prefrontal shields ; a dark 

 line below the eye. 

 Lower parts yellow, 

 orange, or coral red, 

 with large, mostly «* v 



Fig. 28 (after Sordelli) 



quadrangular black 

 spots, often ar- 

 ranged in chess- 

 board fashion, or 

 with two series of 

 black spots (Plate 

 X.), which may be confluent into two longitudinal 

 bands. 



Total Length. — 26 inches. 



Distribution. — South of France (as far north as 

 the Charente-Inferieure to the west, the Dauphine 

 to the east), the whole of Spain and Portugal, 

 Southern Tyrol, Italy, and Sicily. It has not been 

 recorded from higher than 2,500 feet in the 

 Alps. Rare in Northern Morocco and Algeria. In 

 many localities in Europe it occurs alongside with 

 C. austriaca. 



