60. COLUBER. 41 



B. 35 to 50 dorsal spots from the nape to the hase of the tail ; 



labials without black sutures. (C. emori/i, E. & G.) 



a. Yg. (Sc. 27 ; V. 207 ; Kansas. Smithsonian Instit. rP.l. 



C. 67). 



h. 9 (Sc. 31j V. 225; Duval Co., Texas. W. Taylor, Esq. [C.]. 

 C. 65). 



13. Coluber leopardimis. 



Coluber quadrilineatus (non Lacep.), Pall. Zoogr. Ross.-As. iii. p. 40 

 (ISII); G'unth. Cat. p. 88 (1858): Straxich, Schl. Buss. S. -p. 73 

 (1873) ; Bedriaga, Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. Ivi. 1882, p. 298. 



leopardinus, Bunap. Icon. Faun. Ital. (1834) ; Schleg. Pki/s, 



Serp. ii. p. 169 (1837). 



crueutatus, Steven, Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. viii. 1835, p. 317. 



Callopellis leopardinus, Bonap. Mem. Ace. Tor. (2) ii. 1839, p. 432 ; 

 Nordm. in Demidoff, T'og. Buss. Mer. iii. p. 348, Bept. pis. vi,, viii., 

 ix. (1840); De Bidta, Atti 1st. Van. (3) xiii. 1868, p. 934, and 

 Faun. Ital, Bett. Anf. p. 38 (1874) ; Tvmasuu, I'Fiss. Mitth. aus 

 Bosn. u. Herzeg. ii. p.'618 (1894). 



Ablabes quadrilineatus, Dum. (^- Bibr. vii. p. 319 (1854). 



Katrix leopardina. Cope, Froc. Ac. Philad. 1862, p. 338. 



Coronella quadrilineata, Jan, Arch. Zool. Anat. Phys. ii. 18G3, p. 247, 

 and Icon. Gen. 13, pi. v. (1865). 



Callopeltis quadrilineatus, Schreib. Herp. Fur. p. 277 (1875) ; 

 Cameruno, Mmi. Ofid. Ital., Coluhr. p. 62 (1891) ; Mind-Palumbo 

 Nat. Sicil. xii. 1893, p. 127. 



Rostral broader than deep, just visible from above ; iuternasals 

 broader than long, shorter than the prasfrontals ; frontal once and 

 one third to once and a half as long as broad, as long as its distance 

 from the end of the snout, shorter than the parietals ; loreal longer 

 than deep ; one prJE- and two postoculars ; temporals 1 or 2-f 2or3; 

 eight upper labials, fourth and filth entering the eye ; four or five 

 lower labials in contact with the anterior chin-shields, which are 

 longer than the posterior. Scales smooth, in 25 or 27 rows. Ventrals 

 222-260, rounded ; anal divided; subcaudals 68-89. Greyish or pale 

 brown above, M'ith a dorsal series of dark brown or reddish black- 

 edged transverse spots and a lateral alternating series of smaller 

 black spots, or with two dark brown black-edged stripes bordering a 

 yellowish vertebral stripe ; usually a A-shaped dark marking 

 on the occiput and nape ; a crescentic black band from eye to eye, 

 an oblique black band frum the postoculars to the angle of the mouth, 

 and a black spot below the eye ; lower parts white, checkered with 

 black, or nearly entirely black. 



Total length 900 milHm. ; tail 160. 



Southern Italy, Malta, Dalmatia, Balkan Peninsula, Crimea, 

 Asia Minor. 



A. Spotted form. (C. leopardinus, Bp.) 



a, b. S (Sc. 25 ; V. 232 ; Malta. Miss Attersoll rP.l 



C. 85) & vg. (Sc. 27; 

 V. 241 ; C. 79;. 



