194. COLUBRID. 
Intermediate between C. austriaca and C. girondica. Snout pro- 
minent; rostral as deep as broad, produced between the internasals, 
the portion seen from above about half as long as its distance 
from the frontal: suture between the internasals one third the 
length of that between the prefrontals; frontal a little longer 
than its distance from the end of the snout, a little shorter than 
the parietals ; loreal longer than deep; one pre- and two post- 
oculars; temporals 2+3; eight upper labials, fourth and fifth 
entering the eye; four lower labials in contact with the anterior 
chin-shields ; posterior chin-shields three fourths the length of the 
anterior. Scales in 21 rows. Ventrals 190-198; anal divided; 
subeaudals 52-64. Grey-brown above, with reddish-brown spots 
and four rather indistinct dark longitudinal bands; vertebral region 
light; a pair of elongate dark brown spots on the nape; a black 
streak on each side of the head, from the nostril, through the eye, 
to the angle of the mouth; a dark band between the eyes, crossing 
the prefrontals ; a black line below the eye; lower parts coral-red, 
with quadrangular black spots. 
Total length 390 millim. ; tail 72. 
Morocco and Algeria. 
a-b. 9 (V.193; C.63)  Benider Hills, near M. H. Vaucher [C.}. 
& yg. (V. 190; C. 64). Tangier. 
3. Coronella girondica. 
Coluber girondicus, Daud. Rept. vi. p. 452 (1803). 
meridionalis, Dawud. vii. p. 158 (1803). 
riccioli, Metava, Mon. Serp. Rom. p. 40, pl. —. figs. 3 & 4 
(1823); Bonap. Icon. Faun. Ital. (18°2). 
Coronella meridionalis, Bove, Isis, 1827, p. 559. 
Coluber rubens, Gachet, Actes Soc. Linn. Bord. iii. 1829, p, 255." 
Coronella levis, part., Schleg. Phys. Serp. ii. p. 65 (1837). 
Zamenis riccioli, Bonap. Mem. Acc. Tor. (2) ii, 1859, p. 432, 
Coronella girondica, Dum. § Bibr. vii. p. 612 (1854) ; Giinth. Cat. 
p- 35 (1858) ; Jan, Arch. Zool. Anat. Phys. ii. 1863, p. 251, and 
Icon. Gén. 17, pl. iii. figs. 1-3 (1866) ; Boettg. Abh. Senck. Ges. 
ix. 1873, p. 150; Schreib. Herp. Eur. p. 299 (1875) ; De Betta, 
Fann. d’Ital., Rett. Anf. p. 37 (1875) ; Lataste, Herp. Gir. p. 151 
(1876); Bedriaga, Amph. et Rept. de Portug. p. 65 (1889); Came- 
rano, Mon. Ofid. Ital., Col. p. 64 (1891); Bouleng. Tr. Zool. Soe, 
xiii. 1891, p. 145; Carueccio, Boll. Soc. Rom. i. 1892, p. 55; Ko- 
lombatovic, N. Nadod. Kralj. Dalm. p. 12 (1893). 
—+ riccioli, De Betta, Mem. Acc. Verona, xxxv. 1857, p. 191, and 
Atti Ist. Ven. (3) xiii. 1868, p. 921. 
— levis, var. hispanica, Boetig. Ber. Offenb. Ver. Nat. x. 1869, 
p- 55. 
Snout scarcely prominent ; rostral much broader than deep, just 
visible from above ; suture between the internasals not more than 
half as long as that-between the preefrontals ; frontal as long as or 
a little longer than its distance from the end of the snout, shorter 
than the parietals; loreal longer than deep; one pra- and two 
postoculars ; temporals 243 or 3+3; eight upper labials, fourth 
