60. COLTIBEE. 



45 



continued from the ej-e to the angle of the mouth ; belly yellowish, 

 usually dotted or spotted with blackish. 



Total length 900 millim. ; tail 170. 



Southern Russia, Transcaucasia, and Temperate Asia and Japan. 



a. $ (So. 25 ; V. 193 ; Caucasus. 

 C. 50). 



b. Yg. (Sc. 27 ; V. 180 ; Mangvschlak. 

 C. 06). 



c. 2 (Sc. 25 ; V. 198 ; Wernoje. 

 C. 60). 



d. 2 (Sc. 25 ; V. 198 ; Semipolatiusk. 

 C. 58). 



e. 2 (Sc. 25 ; V. 203 ; E. Hi. 

 C. 61). 



/, <-/. c? (Sc. 27 ; V. 198 ; R. Emba. 



b. 75)' & $ (Sc. 25 ; V. 



206 ; C. 60). 

 k. d (Sc. 23 ; V. 179 ; Ussuri R. 



C. 60). 

 i. 2 (Sc. 25 ; V. 200 ; Pekia. 



G. 64). 

 k-l. Hs-r. (Sc. 27, 25 ; V. Western hills of 



190,187; C. 59, 64). Pekm. 



m-n, o-p. J' (Sc. 25, 27 ; Chefoo. 



V. 188, 186; C. 69, 71) 



& yg. (Sc. 25, 25 ; V. 



198, 198; C. 65, ?). 

 q. Yg. (Sc. 25 ; V. 209 ; Clien Lang Kuan, Mr. John Brock 



C. 64). Gan King. [P.]. 



r-s. 2 (Sc. 27; V. 202; Mountains north of A. E. Pratt, Esq. 



C. 68) & Yg. (Sc. 23; Kiu Kiang. [G.]. 



V. 187 ; G". 76). 

 t. Yg. (Sc. 25; V. 204; Hoi-How, Hainan. J. Xeumann, Esq 



G. 80). [P.]. 



u. d (Sc. 27 ; V. 200 ; China. Sir E. Belcher [P.]. 



C. 79). 

 V. (5 (Sc. 25 ; V. 180 ; China. J. Brenchley, Esq 



C. 68). [P.]. 



St. Petersburg Mus. 



St. Petersburg Mus. 



[E.]. 

 St. Petersburg Mus. 



[E.]. 

 Rev. H. Lansdell 



[G.]. 

 St. Petersburg Mus. 



[E.]. 



Warsaw Mus. [E.]. 



R. Swinhoe, Esq. 



[C.]. 

 S. W. Bushel], Esq. 



[P.]. 

 R. Swinhoe, Esq. 



[C.]. 



18. Coluber quatuorlineatus. 



Coluber quatuorlineatus, Lacep. Serp. pp. 82, 163, pi. vii. fig. 1 (1789) ; 



Honnat. Encycl. Meth., OjMol. p. 44, pi. xxxix. fig. 1 (1790). 



nauii, Donnd. Zool. Beitr. iii. p. 206 (1798). 



quadristriatus, Donnd. 1. c. p. 207. 



quaterradiatus, Gmel. Der Nntiirf. xxviii. 1799, p. 158, pi. iii. 



fig. 1 ; Desmarest, Faime Franq., Rept. pi. xiv. (1826) ; Schlec/. 



Fkt/s. Serp. ii. p. 159, pi. vi. figs. 9 & 10 (1837) ; Weimer, Verh. 



zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xli. 1891, p. 759. 

 elaphis, Shaw, Zool. iii. p. 450 (1802); Metaxa, Mon. Serp. 



Rom. p. 37 (1823) ; Frivaldsky, Mon. Serp. Hung. p. 44 (1823). 

 quadrilineatus, Baud. Rept. vi. p. 266 (1803) ; Bouleng. Ann. ^ 



May. N. H. [Q>) vii. 1891, p. 280. 

 saui'omates. Pall. Zooyr. Ross.-A^. iii. p. 42 (1811) ; Eichio. 



Zool. Spec. iii. p. 174 (1831); Nordni. in Detnidoff, Voy. Russ. 



Mer. iii. p. 345, Re2)t. pi. iii. (1840). 



