264 COLUBRID. 
between the prefrontals ; frontal once and a half as long as broad, 
nearly twice as broad as the supraocular, as long as its distance 
from the end of the snout, and much shorter than the parietals ; 
loreal, if present, small, longer than deep; one prw- and one post- 
ocular; temporals 1+1; seven upper labials, third and fourth 
entering the eye; four or five lower labials in contact with the 
anterior chin-shields, which are longer than the posterior. Scales 
in 15 rows. Ventrals 211-235; anal divided; subcaudals 73-82. 
Pale olive or reddish above, anteriorly with more or less distinct 
black transverse lines, posteriorly uniform or with small black spots ; 
head sometimes black above; lower parts white. 
Total length 450 millim.; tail 110. 
Transcaspia and Sind, 
a. Her. (V. 235; ©. 73). Ashkabad, Trans- M. P. A. Warent- 
caspia. zoff [C.]. 
b. Date 211; CO: 78). Kolustan, Sind. “ T. Blanford, Esq. 
Py} 
11. Contia coronella. 
Calamaria coronella, Schleg. Phys. Serp. ii. p. 48 (1837). 
Homalosoma coronelloides, Jan, Arch, Zool. Anat. Phys. ii. 1862, 
p- 34, and Icon, Gén. 18, pl. iii. fig. 5 (1865). 
coronella, Jan, ll. ce. p. 36, pl. iv. fig. 3; Lortet, Arch. Mus. 
Lyon, iii. 1883, p. 184, pl. xix. fig. 3; Peracea, Boll. Mus. Tori ino, 
ix. 1894, no. 167, p. 13. 
Ablabes coronella, Giinth. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1864, p. 489; Boettg. 
Ber. Senck. Ges. 1879-80, p. 140. 
Rostral much broader than deep, well visible from above; suture 
between the internasals as long as or shorter than that between 
the prefrontals ; nasal undivided ; frontal longer than its distance 
from the end of the snout, nearly as long as or longer than the 
parietals, not more than once and a half as broad as the supra- 
ocular; a small square loreal present or absent; one preocular ; 
one postocular (rarely two); temporals 14+1 or 142; seven upper 
labials, third and fourth entering the eye; anterior chin-shields 
short and in contact with three or four labials, second pair very 
small and separated bya scale. Scales in 17 rows (rarely 15 or 
19). Ventrals 103-148; anal divided; subcaudals 24-52. Pale 
brown above, with brown spots which may be confluent into 
transverse bands ; a broad crescentic dark brown collar, descending 
to and sometimes extending across the throat ; lips yellowish, witha 
blackish vertical streak below the eve and another between the two 
last labials ; yellowish white inferiorly ; belly with round brown spots, 
Total length 295 millim.; tail 45. 
Syria. 
a. 9(Se.17; V.128; C.29). Merom. Canon Tristram [C.]}. 
b-c. g (Se. 17; V. 103, Lake of Galilee. Canon Tristram [C.]. 
103; C. 28, 29). 
d. 9(Se.19; V.123;C. 24). Lebanon. Canon Tristram [C.]. 
e-g. 2 (Sc. 17; V. 120; Haifa. Senckenberg Museum 
C. 31) & yg. (Sc. 17; [E.]. 
V. 127, 128 ©. 32, 27). 
