52 COLTJBEID^. 



brown above, with small black spots or a dorsal series of Hack cross 

 bars ; some adult specimens almost uuiform olive-brown above ; a 

 black streak across the end of the snout, passing through the 

 nostrils, a curved one from eye to eye, another from the eye to the 

 angle of the mouth, a A-shaped one on the back of the head, with 

 the point on the frontal, and a black spot or vertical streak below 

 the eye ; lower parts whitish, checkered with black. Young (e) 

 vermilion above, with small black spots edged with yellowish white. 



Total length 830 millim. ; tail 150. 



Japan; Corea. 



a, h. (S (V. 219 ; C. 67) Japan. Levden Museum. 

 &yg. (V. 217;C.66). 



c. c? (V. 215 ; C. 67). Yokohama. H.M.S. ' Challenger.' 



d. Yg. (V. i'24 ; C. 63). Nikko. H.M.S. ' Challenger.' 



e. Yg. (v. 206 ; C. 68). Haruna Hills, Japan, Lord Dormer [P.]. 



2500 ft. 



25. Coluber longissimus. 



Natrix longissima, Laur. Syn. Rept. p. 74 (1768). 

 Coluber flavescens, GmeZ. <S'. N. i. p. 1115 (1788) ; Baud. Rept. vi. 

 p. 272 (180.3) ; Frivaldshj, Mon. Serp. Hung. p. 40 (1823) ; Lenz, 

 Schlangenk. p. 509, pi. vi. (1832) ; Bonctp. Icon. Faun. Ital. (1833) ; 

 De Betta, Erp. Vcron., Mem. Ace. Verona, xxxv. 1857, p. 197. 



■ reiBculapii {non L.), Laccp. Serp. pp. 98, 105, pi. vii. fig. 2 



(1789) ; Bonnat. Encycl. Meth., OpMol. p. 43, pi. xxxix. fig. 2 

 (1790) ; Host, in Jaoq. Coll. Botan. iv. p. 356, pi. xxvii. (1790) ; 

 Wolf, in Sturm, Beidschl. Faun. iii. Heft 2 (1799) ; Baud. Rept. 

 vii. p. 30 (1803) ; Mefa.va, Mon. Serp. Rom. p. 37 (1823) ; Fri- 

 valdsky, I. c. p. 42 ; Desmarest, Faune Franq., Rept. pi. xv. (1826) ; 

 Millet, Faune de Maine-et-Loire, p. 632, pi. iv. (1828) ; Schleq. 

 Phjs. Serp. ii. p. 130, pi. v. figs. 1 & 2 (1837) ; Giinth. Cat. p. 88 

 (1858); Strauch, Schl. Russ. R. p. 57 (1873); Boettgi. Ber. 

 Senckenh. Ges. 1889, p. 271 ; Mehely, Beitr. Mon. Kronstadt, 

 Herp. p. 29 (1892) ; Sarauw, Nat. og Memiesk. Copenh. xi. 1894, 

 p. 258 ; Biirigen, DeutscU. Amph. u. Rept. p. 308, pi. viii. fig. 1 

 (1894). 



longissimus, Bonnat. I. c. p. 69 ; Blanf. Zool. E. Pers. p. 420 



(1876). 



asclepiadeu?, Donnd. Zool. Beyfr. iii. p. 205 (1798). 



sellmanni, Eonnd. I. c. p. 207. 



pannonieus, Dotmd. I. c. p. 208. 



leprosus, Eonnd. I. c. 



romauus, Suckow, Anfanqsqr . d. Naturg. iii. p. 193 (1798). 



scopolii, Merr. Te?it.'-p. 104 (1820). 



fugax, Eiclnu. Zool. Spec. iii. p. 174 (1831). 



Zamenis fesculapii, Fitzing. Beitr. Eande.sk. Oesterr. i. p. 326 (1832) ; 



Eiclnu. Faun. Casp.-Catic. p. 150 (1841). 

 Callopeltis flavescens, Bonap. Mem. Ace. Torin. (2) ii. 1839, p. 432. 

 Coluber sauromates, juv., iV'orr^m. in Eemidoff, Voy. Russ. Mer. iii. 



p. 346, Rept. pi. vi. fig. 2 (1840). 

 Elaphis sesculapii, Eum. ^- Bihr. vii. p. 278 (1854) ; Jan, Icon. Gen. 

 24, pi. i. fig. 4 (1867) ; Viaud-Grandm. Et. Serp. Vendee, p. 10 

 (1868) ; Fatio, Vert. Suisxe, iii. p. 136 (1872); De Betta, Faun. 

 Ital, Rett. Anf. p. 43 (1874). 



