262 COLUBRID. 
6. Contia fasciata. 
Eirenis fasciatus, Jan, Arch. Zool. Anat. Phys. ii. 1863, p. 260, and 
Icon, Gén. 15, pl. v. fig. 2 (1866). 
Cyclophis fasciatus, Blanf. Zool. E. Pers. p. 406 (1876); Boettg. Zool. 
Jahrb. iii. 1888, p. 920. 
Ablabes fasciatus, Boettg. Ber. Senck. Ges. 1879-80, p. 142. 
Rostral broader than deep; nasal undivided ; frontal as long as 
its distance from the end of the snout, as long as the parietals ; 
loreal very small, as long as deep; one prae- and two postoculars ; 
temporals 1+2 or 1+1; seven upper labials, third and fourth 
entering the eye; chin-shields small, posterior separated by a scale. 
Scales in 15 rows. Ventrals 158-171; anal divided; subcaudals 
48-62. Sandy grey above, with numerous narrow cross bands of 
brownish olive, breaking up into spots on the posterior third of the 
body and on the tail; belly salmon-colour in life, the anterior 
portion of each ventral shield brown near the sides. 
Total length 340 millim.; tail 82. 
Syria, Persia, Transcaspia. 
7. Contia angusticeps. 
Head narrow and elongate. Rostral twice as broad as deep, just 
visible from above ; nasal undivided; suture between the internasals 
longer than that between the prawfrontals; frontal once and two 
thirds as long as broad, hardly once and a half as broad as the 
supraocular, longer than its distance from the end of the snout, 
much shorter than the parietals; a very small loreal, longer than 
deep; one pre- and one postocular; temporals 1+1; seven upper 
labials, third and fourth entering the eye; five lower labials in 
contact with the anterior chin-shields, which are a little longer than 
the posterior. Scales in 15 rows. Ventrals 186; anal divided; 
subcaudals 86. Pale greyish brown above, each scale darker in the 
centre; a darker bar between the eye, another across the parietals 
and temples, and a third across the nape ; lower parts uniform white. 
Total length 340 millim. ; tail 85. 
Cherat, Baluchistan. 
This species is described from a single specimen in the Indian 
Museum, Calcutta, submitted to me by Mr. W. L. Sclater. 
8. Contia rothi. 
Hirenis rothi, Jan, Arch. Zool. Anat. Phys. ii. 1863, p. 259, and Icon. 
Gén. 15, pl. v. fig. 1 (1866) ; 4. Miill. Verh. nat. Ges. Basel, vi. 1878, 
659. 
Ablabes modestus (non Mart.), Giinth. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1864, p. 489. 
rothi, Boettg. Ber. Senck, Ges. 1879-80, p. 143. 
Homalosoma coliaris, Peracca, Boll. Mus. Torino, ix. 1894, no. 167, 
p. 16. 
Rostral much broader than deep, just visible from above; nasal 
undivided ; suture between the internasals as long as or shorter than 
