60. coLUBER, 41 
B. 35 to 50 dorsal spots from the nape to the base of the tail ; 
labials without black sutures. (C. emoryz, B. & G.) 
a. Ye. (Se. 27; V. 207; Kansas. Smithsonian Instit. [P.]. 
b. 9 (Se. 31; V. 225; DuvalCo., Texas. W. Taylor, Esq. [C.]. 
13. Coluber leopardinus. 
Coluber quadrilineatus (non Lacép.), Pall. Zoogr. Ross.-As, iii. p. 40 
(1811); Giinth. Cat. p. 88 (1858); Strauch, Schl. Russ. R. p. 73 
- (1873); Bedriaga, Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. lvi. 1882, p- 298. 
leopardinus, Bonap. Icon. Faun. Ital. (1834) ; Schleg. Phys. 
Serp. il. p. 169 (1837). 
cruentatus, Steven, Bull. Soc. Nat. Mose. viii. 1835, p. 317. 
Callopeltis leopardinus, Bonap. Mem. Ace. Tor, (2) ii. 1839, p. 432 
a dm. in Demidoff, Voy. Russ. Mér. iil. p. 348, Rept. pls. vi. , Viii., 
x. (1840); De Betta, Atti Ist. Ven. (8) xiii, 1868, p. 934, and 
men Ital., Rett. Anf. p. 88 (1874) ; Tomasini, Wiss. Mitth. aus 
Bosn. u. Herzeg. ii. p. 618 (1894). 
Ablabes quadrilineatus, Dum. § Bibr. vii. p. 819 (1854), 
Natrix leopardina, Cope, Proc. Ac, Philad. 1862, p. 338. 
Coronella quadrilineata, Jan, Arch. Zool. Anat. Phys. ii. 1863, p. 247, 
and Icon. Gén. 13, pl. v. (1865). 
Callopeltis quadrilineatus, Schrevb. Herp. Ew. p. 277 (1875); 
Camerano, Mon. Ofid. Ital., Colubr, p. 52 (1891); Mina-Palumbo, 
Nat. Sicil. xii, 1898, p. 127. 
Rostral broader than deep, just visible from above ; internasals 
broader than long, shorter than the prefrontals; frontal once and 
one third to once and a half as long as broad, as long as its distance 
from the end of the snout, shorter than the parietals ; loreal longer 
than deep ; one pre- and two postoculars ; temporals 1 or 2+ 2or3; 
eight upper labials, fourth and fifth entering the eye; four or five 
lower labials in contact with the anterior ehin-shiclds, which are _ 
longer than the posterior. Scales smooth, in 25 or 27 rows. Ventrals 
222-260, rounded ; anal divided ; subcaudals 68-89. Greyish or pale 
brown above, with a dorsal series of dark brown or reddish black- 
edged transverse spots and a lateral alternating series of smaller 
black spots, or with two dark brown black-edged stripes bordering a 
yellowish vertebral stripe; usually a A\-shaped dark marking 
on the occiput and nape; a crescentic black band from eye to eye, 
an oblique black band trom the postoculars to the angle of the mouth, 
and a black spot below the eye; lower parts white, checkered with 
black, or nearly entirely black. 
Total length 900 millim.; tail 160. 
Southern Italy, Malta, Dalmatia, Balkan Peninsula, Crimea, 
Asia Minor, 
A. se form. (C. leopardinus, Bp.) 
a,b. & (Se. 25; V. 232; Malta. Miss Attersoll [P.]. 
C. S) & yg. (Se. 27; 
V. 2415 C. 72); 
