2(l2 COLUBEIDJi;. 



6. Contia fasciata. 



Eirenis fasciatiis, Jan, Arch. Zool. Anat. Phys. ii. 1863, p. 260, and 



Icon. Gen. 15, pi. v. fig. 2 (1866). 

 Cjclopliis fcisciatus, Blm^f. Zool. E. Pers. p. 406 (1876) ; Boettr/. Zool. 



Jahrb. iii. 1888, p. 920. 

 Ablabes fasciatus, BoeWj. Ber. Senck. Ges. 1879-80, p. 142. 



Rostral broader than deep ; nasal undivided ; frontal as long as 

 its distance from the end of the snout, as long as the parietals ; 

 loreal very small, as long as deep ; one pr?e- and two postoculars ; 

 temporals 1 + 2 or 1 + 1 ; seven upper labials, third and fourth 

 entering the eye ; chin-shields small, posterior separated by a scale. 

 Scales in 15 rows. Ventrals 158-171 ; anal divided ; subcaudals 

 48-62. Sandy grey above, with numerous narrow cross bands of 

 brownish olive, breaking up into spots on the posterior third of the 

 body and on the tail ; belly salmon-colour in life, the anterior 

 portion of each ventral shield brown near the sides. 



Total length 340 miUim. ; tail 82. 



Syria, Persia, Transcaspia. 



7. Contia angusticeps. 



Head narrow and elongate. Rostral twice as broad as deep, just 

 visible from above ; nasal undivided ; suture between the interuasals 

 longer than that between the prajfrontals ; frontal once and two 

 thirds as long as broad, hardly once and a half as broad as the 

 supraocular, longer than its distance from the end of the snout, 

 much shorter than the parietals ; a very small loreal, longer than 

 deep ; one prse- and one postocular ; temporals 1 -H 1 ; seven upper 

 labials, third and fourth entering the eye ; five lower labials in 

 contact with the anterior chin-shields, which are a little longer than 

 the posterior. Scales in 15 rows. Ventrals 186 ; anal divided ; 

 subcaudals 86. Pale greyish brown above, each scale darker in the 

 centre ; a darker bar between the eye, another across the parietals 

 and temples, and a third across the nape ; lower parts uniform white. 



Total length 340 millim. ; tail 85. 



Cherat, Baluchistan. 



This species is described from a single specimen in the Indian 

 Museum, Calcutta, submitted to me by Mr. W. L. Sclater. 



8. Contia rothi. 



Eirenis rothi, Jan, Arch. Zool. Anat. Phys. ii. 1863, p. 259, and Ico7i. 



GSn. 15, pi. V. fig. 1 (1866) ; F.Miill. Verh. nat. Ges. Basel, vi. 1878, 



p. 659. 

 Ablabes modestus {non Mart.), Giinth. Proa. Zool. Soc. 1864, p. 489. 



rothi, Boetiff. Ber. Senck. Ges. 1879-80, p. 143. 



Homalosoma collaris, Peracca, Boll. Mus. Torino, ix. 1894, no. 167, 



p. 15. 



Rostral much broader than deep, just visible from above ; nasal 

 undivided ; suture between the interuasals as long as or shorter than 



