60. CoLUBER. 47 
b-c,d. Q (V. 224; C.?), Naples. Count M. G. Peracca 
her. (V. 210; C. 77), & [P.]. 
yg. (V. 223; C. 70). 
ef. d (V. 208; C. 79) & Naples. Dr. F. 8. Monticelli 
her. (V..209.5'C..71). fake. |: 
gh. & (NV: 210; C. 79) Zara, Dalmatia. Dr. F. Werner [E.]. 
& yg. (V. 218; c 66), 
t-k. 3 (V. 205; C.79) & Zara, Dalmatia. 
(V. 218; C. 68). 
i O(Vo217 5 ©: 70): S. Europe. Dr. Giinther [P.]. 
B. Spots persistent throughout life. (C. sawromates, Pall.) 
a. 2 (V. 210; C. 66). Malo, Derbentsky Uluss, St. Petersburg Mus. 
Goy. Astrakhan. [E.]. 
b. 2 (V. 206; C..64).  Shirvan. Berlin Museum [E.]. 
GO aia Ce Gl). f Sir A. Smith [P.]. 
19. Coluber teniurus. 
Elaphis virgatus, part., Giinth. Cat. p. 79 (1858). 
— teniurus, Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1860, p. 565; Giinth. Rept. 
Brit. Ind. p. 242 (1864) ; Strauch, Schl. Russ. R. p. 103 (1878) ; 
Bouleng. Ann. § Mag. N. H. (5) xix. 1887, p. 170. 
Coluber nuthalli, Theob. Cat. Rept. As. Soe. Mus, p. 51 (1868). 
Elaphis yunnanensis, Anders. An. Zool. Res. Yunnan, p. 813 (1879). 
grabowskyi, Fescher, Arch. f. Nat. 1885, p. 59, pl. iv. fig. 3. 
Coluber teeniurus, Bouleng. Ann. § Mag. N. ee (€ 3) v. 1890, p. 159, 
and Faun. Ind. , fept. p. 833 (1890); W. Selater, Journ. As. Soc. 
Beng. \x. 1891, D. 239. 
Rostral broader than deep, visible from above ; internasals a little 
broader than long, much shorter than the preefrontals ; frontal once 
and one third to once and two thirds as long as broad, as long as or 
shorter than its distance from the end of the snout, as long as or a 
little shorter than the parietals ; loreal longer than deep ; one large 
preocular, sometimes in contact with the frontal, usually with a 
small subocular below it; two postoculars ; temporals 2+ 2 or2+3; 
usually nine (sometimes eight) upper labials, fifth and sixth (or 
fourth and fifth) entering the eye; five or six lower labials in 
contact with the anterior chin-shields, which are as long as or 
a little longer than the posterior. Scales in 23 or 25 rows, dorsals 
feebly but distinctly keeled, outer rows smooth. Ventrals dis- 
tinctly angulate laterally, 230-284; anal divided, rarely entire ; 
subcaudals 90-107. Grey-brown or olive above, head and nape 
uniform ; a black stripe on each side of the head, passing through 
the eye; anterior part of back with black transverse lines or net- 
work, posterior part with a pale vertebral stripe between two broad 
black ones ; belly yellowish anteriorly, greyish posteriorly ; a black 
stripe along each side of the posterior part of the belly and along each 
side of the tail, separated from the upper lateral stripe by a whitish 
streak. 
Total length 1500 millim. ; tail 300. 
Manchuria, China, Sikkim, Cochinchina, Siam, Borneo, Sumatra, 
