192 COLUBEID^. 



Coluber alpinus, Georr/i, I. c. 

 ? Coluber ponticus, Georgi, I. c. 

 Coluber gallicus, Herm. I. c. p. 281. 



caucasius, Pall. I. c. p. 46. 



CoroDella Isevis, £oie, Isis, 1827, p. 5-39 ; EichiP. Zool. Spec. iii. 



p. 175 (1831) ; Nordm. in Dcmid. Voy. Huss. Mer. iii. p. 350, 



Rept. pis. xii. & xiii. (1840) ; Bum. ^ Bibr. vii. p. 610 (1854) ; 



Jan, Icon. Gen. 14, pi. \i. fig. 4 (1866) ; Cooke, Our Rept. p. 53, 



pi. iv. (1865) ; Viaud-Grandm. Et. Serp. Vend. p. 12 (1868) ; 



Fatio, Vert. Suisse, iii. p. 177 (1872) ; Lataste, Herp. Gir. p. 145 



(1876); Cambridge, Proc. Dorset N. H. Club, vii. 1886, p. 84, 



pi. vi.; Tomasini, Wiss. Mitth. ausBosn. u. Herzeg. ii. p. 622 (1894). 



Zacholus austriacus, Fitzing. Beitr. Lnndesk. Oesterr. i. p. 326 (1832) ; 



Bonap. Mem. Ace. Tor. (2) ii. 1839, p. 431 ; Gliickselig, Lotos, 



i. 1851, p. 198. 



Coluber nebulosus, Menetr. Cat. Rais. p. 73 (18-32). 



Coronella Isevis, part., Schleg. Phys. Serp. ii. p. 65, pi. ii. figs. 12 & 13 



(18.37). 

 Zacbolus fitzingeri, Bonap. I. c. 



Isevis, Eichw. Faun. Casp.-Cauc. p. 118 (1841). 



Coronella Isevis, vars. eaucasica et segyptiaca, Jan, Arch. Zool. Anat. 

 Phys. ii. 1863, p. 2-38. 



austriaca, var. italica, Schreib. I. c. fig. 



laevis, var. leopardina, F. Miill. Verh. not. Ges. Basel, vii. 



1884, p. 283. 

 Snout obtuse or more or less prominent : rostral at least as deep 

 as broad, more or less produced posteriorly between the internasals, 

 the portion visible from above at least half as long (in some speci- 

 mens quite as long) as its distance from the frontal, rarely separating 

 the internasals, which are shorter than the praefrontals ; frontal as 

 long as or longer than its distance from tlie end of the snout, shorter 

 than the parietals ; loreal longer than deep ; one (rarely two) prse- 

 and two postoculars ; temporals 2 + 2 or 2 + 3 (rarely 1 + 2) ; seven 

 (rarely eight) upper labials, third and fourth (or fourth and fifth) 

 entering the eye ; four (rarely three) lower labials in contact with 

 the anterior chin-shields, which are as long as or longer than the 

 posterior. Scales in 19 rows. Yentrals 153-199 ; anal divided 

 (rarely entire) ; subcaudals 42-70. Brown or reddish above, often 

 with one or three lighter stripes, with small dark brown or brick- 

 red spots usually disposed in pairs ; frequently two dark brown or 

 brick-red stripes on the nape, usually conSuent with a large dark 

 blotch on the occiput ; a dark streak on each side of the head, from 

 the nostril to the angle of the mouth, passing through the eye, 

 sometimes extending along each side of the neck ; lower parts red, 

 orange, brown, grey, or blackish, uniform or speckled with black 

 and white. Spec, u is pale brown above, with four black lines 

 along the anterior part of the body, and two small, yellowish, dark- 

 edged spots close together on the back of the head, separated by 

 the parietal suture. 



Total length 720 miUim.; tail 140. 



Europe, as far north as 62|° (in Great Britain only in Hampshire 

 and Dorsetshire, perhaps also in Surrey), Transcaucasia, Talysch 

 Syria. 



