316 BULLETIN 58, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



(northern Pcchili, China). — Mehely, Zichy's Dritte Asiat. Forschungsr. , 

 II, 1901, p. 58 (Peking).— Wall, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1903, p. 91 

 (China). — Nikolski, Zap. Imp. Akad. Nauk, S. Peterburg (8), XVII, No. 

 1, 1905, p. 249 (Vladivostok, Korea, etc.). — Elaphis cHone Dumeril and 

 BiBRON, Erpet. Gen., VII, Pt. 1, p. 248. — Guenther, Rept. Brit. India, 

 1864, p. 240 (Kaukasus; Peking).— Jan, Icon. Ophid., livr. 21, 1867, pi. in, 

 fig. A (Sarepta, Russia). — Strauch, Mem. Acad. Sci. St. Petersb. (7), XXI, 

 No. 4, 1873, pp. 82, 270 (eastern Russia, Sil)eria, Amur, Ussuri, Korea, 

 Japan); in Przevalski's Mongoliya i Strana Tangutov, III, 1876, p. 46 

 (Ordos). — Moellendorpf, Journ. N. China Br. R. Asiat. Soc. (n. s.),XI, 

 1877, p. 104 (Peking; Manchuria). — Boettger, Offenbach. Ver. Naturk. 

 26-28 Ber., 1888, p. 131 (East Europe to North China and Korea).— Wer- 

 ner, Abh. Bayer. Akad. Wiss. (Muenchen), II Klasse, XXII, Pt. 2, 1904, 

 I?. 356 (Tsingtau, China; Peking). 



1802. Coluber diana Latreille, Hist. Nat. Rept., IV, p. 159 (emendation). 



1831. Coluber eremita Eichwald, Zool. Special., Ill (p. 174). 



1837. Coluber maeoticus Rathke, Mem. Sav. Etrang. Acad. St. Petersb., Ill, p. 

 433, pi. I, figs. 9-11 (type-locality, Caspian Sea at the mouth of Riv. Ural; 

 Goebel, collector). 



Description. — Adult male; U.S.N.M. No. 14610; Korea; Dr. N. M. 

 Ferebee, collector. Rostral much broader than high, visible from 

 above; internasals much broader than long, only half as long as pre- 

 frontals which are broadly in contact with supraocular; frontal 

 nearly as long as its distance from tip of snout, somewhat wider in 

 front than behind; parietals longer than frontal, interparietal suture 

 longer than distance of frontal from rostral; nostril large, between 

 two nasals, the anterior slightly larger than the posterior; loreal 

 longer than high; one preocular, not in contact with frontal; one 

 subpreocular; two postoculars; temporals 2 + 3; eight supralabials, 

 seventh largest, fourth and fifth entering eye; five lower labials in 

 contact with anterior chin-shields, which are as long as the posterior; 

 25 rows of nearly smooth scales; 204 ventrals; anal divided; 65 pairs of 

 subcaudals. Color (in alcohol) light tawny-olive above, with numer- 

 ous irregular narrow dusky crossbars, about one to one and a half 

 scale wide; head with slightly darker, black-edged markings consisting 

 of an irregular chevron mark on parietals and upper neck, a cross mark 

 on prefrontals and frontal extending backward oblicjuely through 

 eye and reaching commissure at the angle of mouth; supralabials, 

 including lower edge of seventh and eighth, pale yellow; underside 

 pale yellowish with irregular dusky spots which near the obtuse 

 lateral angle of the ventrals assume the character of an interrupted 

 longitudinal line. 



Div tensions. 



mm. 



TiHal length 825 



Snout to vent 677 



Vent to tip of tail 148 



