42 COLUBRID. 
¢. uae (Sc. 27; V. 245; Malta, C. A. Wright,°Esq. [P.]. 
Gi9) 
d. — (Se. 27; V. 247; Zara, Dalmatia. Count M.G. Peracca [P.]. 
= TO), 
e-g. 5 (Se. 27, 25; V.241, Zara. Dr. F. Werner [E.]. 
238; C. 84, 84) & Q 
(Se. 275 V. 245; C. P). 
ha. o (Se. 25; V. 234; Zara. Hr. Spada-Novak [C. ]. 
C. 88) & 2 (Se. 25; 
V. 238; C. 68). 
B. Striped form. (C. quadrilineatus, Pall.) 
aie (Se. 27; V. 247; ‘Trieste. Dr. Riippell [P.]. 
97). 
6. Yg. (Sc. 25; V. 226; Ionian Ids. Dr. Mann [P.}. 
C. 79). 
e fo (Se. 26; V. 245; ——P 
C. 81) 
14. Coluber hohenackeri. 
Coluber rubriventris, Dwigubsky, Essay Nat. Hist. Russ. Emp. p. 67 
[ Russian } (1832), 
hohenackeri, Strauch, Schl. Russ. R. p. 70 (18738); Boettg. 
Ber. Senck, Ges. 1890, p. 294. : 
Rostral broader than deep, just visible from above; internasals 
broader than long, shorter than the prefrontals ; frontal a little 
longer than broad, as long as its distance from the end of the snout, 
shorter than the parietals; loreal a little longer than deep; one 
pre- and two postoculars; temporals 2+3; eight upper labials, 
fourth and fifth entering the eye ; five lower labials in contact with 
the anterior chin-shields, which are longer than the posterior. 
Scales smooth or faintly keeled, in 23 (rarely 25) rows. Ventrals 
201-228, rounded ; anal divided ; subecaudals 60-66. Grey above, 
with four alternating series of dark spots; a A-shaped black marking 
on the nape, a black streak from the eye to the angle of the mouth, 
and a black line below the eye; belly yellowish or reddish, closely 
spotted or marbled with blackish grey. 
Total length 650 millim.; tail 110. 
Transcaucasia and Asia Minor. 
a-b. g (V. 211; C. 63) & yg. Amasia, Asia Minor. 
(V. 221; C. 62). 
15. Coluber mandarinus. 
Coluber mandarinus, Cantor, Zool. Chusan, pl. xii. (1840), and Ann. 
&§ Mag. N. H. ix. 1842, p. 483; Giinth. Cat. p.91 (1858), and 
Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 238, pl. xx. fig. H (1864)*, 
Rostral twice as broad as deep, just visible from above; inter- 
nasals shorter than the preefrontals; frontal a little longer than 
* Moellendorff’s Coluber mandarinus (Journ. N. China Br. As. Soc. [2] xi. 
1877, p. 104), “a black water-snake with orange-red marks,” from the province 
of Chihli, Northern China, must be a different snake. 
