52 COLUBRID. 
brown above, with small black spots or a dorsal series of black cross 
bars ; some adult specimens almost uniform olive-brown above ; a 
black streak across the end of the snout, passing through the 
nostrils, a curved one from eye to eye, another from the eye to the 
angle of the mouth, a A-shaped one on the back of the head, with 
the point on the frontal, and a black spot or vertical streak below 
the eye; lower parts whitish, checkered with black. Young (e) 
vermilion above, with small black spots edged with yellowish white. 
Total length 830 millim.; tail 150. 
Japan; Corea. 
a,b. 3 (V. 219; C.67) Japan. Leyden Museum. 
& yg. (V. 217; C.66). : 
c. fo (V. 215; C. 67). Yokohama. H.M.S. ‘ Challenger.’ 
d,. Yg. (V. 224; C.63). Nikko. H.M.S. ‘ Challenger,’ 
e. Yo. (V. 206; C.68). Haruna Hills, Japan, Lord Dormer [P. ]. 
2500 ft. 
25. Coluber longissimus. 
Natrix longissima, Laur. Syn. Rept. p. 74 (1768). 
Coluber flavescens, Gmel. S. N. i. p. 1115 (1788) ; Daud. Rept. vi. 
p. 272 (1803); Frivaldsky, Mon. Serp. Hung. p. 40 (1825) ; Lenz, 
Schlangenk. p. 509, pl. vi. (1832) ; Bonap. Icon. Faun. Ital. (1833) ; 
De Betta, Erp. Veron., Mem. Acc. Verona, xxxv. 1857, p. 197. 
eesculapii (non L.), Lacép. Serp. pp. 98, 165, pl. vii. fig. 2 
(1789); Bonnat. Encycl. Méth., Ophiol. p. 48, pl. xxxix. fig. 2 
(1790) ; Host, in Jacq. Coll. Botan. iv. p. 856, pl. xxvii. (1790) ; 
Wolf, in Sturm, Deutschl. Faun, iii. Heft 2 (1799); Daud, Rept. 
vii. p. 830 (1803) ; Metava, Mon. Serp. Rom. p. 37 (1823); Fri- 
valdsky, l. e.p. 42; Desmarest, Faune Frang., Rept. pl. xv. (1826) ; 
Millet, Faune de Maine-et-Loire, p. 632, pl. iv. (1828) ; Schleg. 
Phys. Serp. ii. p. 130, pl. v. figs. 1 & 2 (1837); Giinth. Cat. p. 88 
(1858); Strauch, Schl. Russ. R. p. 57 (1878); Boettg. Ber. 
Senckenb. Ges. 1889, p. 271; Méhely, Beitr. Mon. Kronstadt, 
Herp. p. 29 (1892) ; Sarauw, Nat. og Mennesk. Copenh, xi. 1894, 
p- 258; Diirigen, Deutschl. Amph. u. Rept. p. 308, pl. viii. fig. 1 
(1894). 
longissimus, Bonnat. 1. c. p.59; Blanf. Zool. E. Pers. p. 420 
(1876). 
asclepiadeus, Donnd. Zool. Beytr. iii. p. 205 (1798). 
sellmanni, Donnd. 1. c. p. 207. 
annonicus, Donnd. 1. ec. p. 208. 
—— leprosus, Donnd. 1. ec. 
—— romanus, Suckow, Anfangsgr. d. Naturg. iii. p. 198 (1798). 
scopolii, Merr. Tent. p. 104 (1820). 
fugax, Lichw. Zool. Spec. iii. p. 174 (1831). 
Zamenis eesculapii, Pitzing. Beitr. Landesk. Oesterr. i. p. 826 (1832) ; 
Eichw. Faun. Casp.-Caue, p. 150 (1841). 
Callopeltis flavescens, Bonap. Mem. Ace. Torin. (2) ii. 1839, p. 482. 
Coluber sauromates, juv., Nordm. in Demidoff, Voy. Russ. Meér, iii. 
p. 346, Rept. pl. vi. fig. 2 (1840). 
Elaphis zsculapii, Dum. § Bibr. vii. p. 278 (1854) ; Jan, Icon. Gén. 
24, pl.i. fig. 4 (1867) ; Viaud-Grandm. Et. Serp. Vendée, p. 10 
(1868) ; Fatio, Vert. Suisse, iii. p. 136 (1872); De Betta, Faun. 
Ital., Rett, Anf. p. 43 (1874). 
