42 



COLtTBBID^. 



c. Ilgr. (Sc. 27; V. 245; Malta. C. A. Wright, Esq. [P.]. 

 C. 81). 



d. $ (Sc. 27; V. 247; Zara, Dalmatia. Count M. G. Peracca [P.]. 

 C. 75). 



e-g. S (Sc. 27, 25; V. 241, Zara. Dr. F. Werner [E.l. 



238; C. 84, 84) & 9 



(Sc. 27 ; V. 245 ; C. ?). 

 h-i. S (Sc. 25 ; V. 234 ; Zara. Hr. Spada-Novak [C.l. 



C. 83) & 2 (Sc. 25 ; 



V. 238 ; C. 68). 



E. Striped form. (C. qiiadrilineatus, Pall.) 



a. 2 (Sc. 27 ; V. 247 ; Trieste. Dr. Rappell [P.l. 

 C. 77). 



b. Yg. (Sc. 25 ; V. 226 ; Ionian Ids. Dr. Mann [P.]. 

 C. 79). 



c. d (Sc. 25; V. 245; ? 



C. 81). 



14. Coluber hohenackeri. 



Coluber rubriventris, Dwiffubsky, Essay Xat. Hist. Huss. Emp. p. 67 



[Paissian] (1832). 

 hohenackeri, Strauch, Schl. Ituss. R. p. 70 (1873) ; Boettg. 



Ber. Senck. Ges. 1890, p. 294. 



Rostral broader than deep, just visible from above : internasals 

 broader than long, shorter than the procfrontals ; frontal a little 

 longer than broad, as long as its distance from the end of the snout, 

 shorter than the parietals : loreal a little longer than deep ; one 

 proe- and two postoculars ; temporals 2 + 3 ; eight upper labials, 

 fourth and fifth entering the eye ; five lower labials in contact with 

 the anterior chin-shields, which are longer than the posterior. 

 Scales smooth or faintly keeled, in 23 (rarely 25) rows. Ventrals 

 201-228, rounded ; anal divided ; subcaudals 60-66. Grey above, 

 ■with four alternating series of dark spots ; a /y -shaped black marking 

 on the nape, a black streak from the eye to the angle of the mouth, 

 and a black line below the eye ; belly yellowish or reddish, closely 

 spotted or marbled with blackish grey. 



Total lengtb 650 millim. ; tail 110. 



Transcaucasia and Asia Minor. 



a-h. c? (V. 211 ; C. 63) & yg. Amasia, Asia Minor. 

 (V. 221 ; C. 62). 



15. Coluber mandarinus. 



Coluber mandarinus, Cantor, Zool. Chvsan, pi. xii. (1840), and Amu 

 S,- Mag. N. H. ix. 1842, p. 483 ; aimth. Cat. p. 91 (1858), and 

 Bept. Brit. hid. p. 238, pi. xx. fig. H (1864)*. 



Rostral twice as broad as deep, just visible from above ; inter- 

 nasals shorter than the prsefrontals ; frontal a little longer than 



* Moellendorff's Coluhcr mandariims (Joum. N. China Br. As. Soc. [2] xi. 

 1S77, p. 104), " a black water-snake with orange-red marks," from the province 

 of Chihli, Sortheru China, must be a diM'erent snake. 



