GO. COLUBER. 53 



Callopeltis ffisculapii &/.m6 i?-«7.. Eur. p. 281 (1875); TomamiL 



H iss. Mitth. aus Bosn. u. Herzer/. ii. p. G20 (1894) 

 Elaphis flavescens, Leydit/, Abh. Senck. Ges. xiii. 1883, p 176 

 Callopeltis longissimus, Caniera7io, Mon. Ofid. Ital, Colubr p. 54 



(1891) ; Mind-Palumho, Nut. Sicil. xii. 1893, p. 129. 

 Coronella austiiaca, part., Sarauw, Nat. oy Mennesk. Copenh. x. 1893, 



Rostral broader than deep, just visible from above ; internasals 

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

 one fourth to once and one third as long as broad, as long as its 

 distance from the rostral or the eiad of the snout, shorter than the 

 panetals ; loroal as long as deep or longer ; one pra3- and two 

 postoculars; temporals 2 + 3 ; eight or nine upper labials, fourth 

 and fifth or fifth and sixth entering the eye ; four or five lower 

 labials in contact with the anterior chin-shields, which are as Ion-' 

 as or a httle longer than the posterior. Scales smooth, or faintly 

 keeled on the posterior part of the body, in 21 or 23 rows Ventrals 

 distinctly angulate laterally, 212-248; anal divided; subcandals 

 bU-Jl. (xrey or ohve-brown above, some of the scales with whitish 

 lines on the margins ; sometimes with four darker stripes alon- the 

 body * ; a dark streak behind the eye ; upper lip and a triangular 

 patch on each side behind the temple yellow ; beUy uniform pale 

 yellow. Young with dark brown dorsal spots, forming four or five 

 longitudinal series, a A-shaped black marking on the nape, behind 

 the yeUow temporal blotches, a dark brown bar across the forehead 

 and a black vertical line below the eye; belly greyish or yeUowish 



Total length 110 millim. : tail 240. 



Central Europe, Denmark t, Italy, Dalmatia, Balkan Peninsula, 

 Lis- and iranscaucasia. 



a-h. S (So. 23, 23 ; V. 225, France. 



222; C. 78, 82). 

 c. S (Sc. 21 ; V. 223 ; C. Nantes. 

 82.) 



'^"C. isSf '$ ^(1; V"V ^'^^■'''^^'^^^^- Dr. Giinther [P.]. 



231; C. 77),' & W. 

 (Sc.23;V. 226; 0.86). 



T • T^?i?: ^ f occurrence ot C. quatmrlimatus at Saumur, Maine-et- 



Loire (Millet, Fauue de Maiue-et-Loire, p. 629), is evidently based on su'h a 

 striped specimen, as pointed out by Viaud-Grandmarais 



no^ ''T '^^P'-e^fd doubts (Zool. 1894, p. 14) as to whether a large specimen 

 (12hU milhm. long) with 218 ventral shields, from the island of Seeland had 

 been correctly referred by Sarauw to Coronella austriaca. Further notes on 

 that specimen captured at Peterswarft in 1863, and now preserved in the 

 beminary at bkaarup, which Mr. Sarauw subsequently sent me at my request 

 aecompanied by a sketch of the head, changed my doubts into certainty: the 

 Peterswarft snake belongs to a distinct species, which turns out to be Coluber 

 iongissimus. Ihree specimens have been examined by Mr. Sarauw, which are 

 perhaps the last survivors of a snake formerly inhabiting the forests of Southern 



