54. ZAMENIS. 



397 



b. 2 (Sc. 19; V. 206; C. 100). Zargoom, Persia. 



c. c? (Sc. 19; V. 194; C. 101). ? 



Chatham Museum. 



Yar. AsiAifus, Boettg. — Browu or olive above, each scale with a 

 longitudinal light streak, and usually with large black spots 

 relieved by yellowish shafts ; Ijelly red, spotted or dotted with 

 black. Melanotic specimens, entirely black with the chin 

 and throat yellow, variegated with red, are frequent. 



Asia Minor, lihodes, Cyprus, Syria. 



a. $ (Sc. ]9; V.202; 

 C. 105). 



h-d,e-h,i-k. S (Sc. 17, 19, 

 19,19,19; V. 208, 20o, 

 204, 201, 204: C. 131, 

 112, 11.3, 111, ?) & 2 

 (Sc. 19, 19, 19, 19; V. 

 211, 20(3, 207, 205; C. 

 105, 103, 113, ?). 



l.^i^c. 19; V.202; C. ?). 



m. 2 (Sc. 19 ; V. 212 ; 

 C. 107). 



n, o-p. 2 (Sc. 19 ; V. 205 ; 

 0. 105) & yg. (Sc. 19, 

 19 ;V. 214, 209; C. 125, 

 115). 



q, r. d (Sc. 19, 19 ; V. 

 204,209; C. 119,122). 



Budruni, Ruins of 



Ilalicaruassus. 

 Cyprus. 



II.M.S. ' Supply.' 

 Lord Lilford [P.]. 



Cyprus. 

 Palestine. 



Merom. 



Galilee. 



Dr. C. E. Cnllen [P.], 

 Canon Tristram [0.]. 



Canon Tristram [C], 



Canon Tristram [C.]. 



15. Zamenis dahlii. 



Savigm/, Descr. Egypte, JRept., Stippl. p. iv. fig. 4 (1829). 



Tvria dahlii, Fitzing. N. Class. Rept. p. 60 (1826) ; Bonap. Icon, 



^ Faun. Hal. (18:i7). 

 najadura, Eichic. Zool. Spec. iii. p. 174 (1831), and Faun. Casp.~ 



Cauc'-p. 11.5, pi. xxvii. (1842). 



ocellata, Eichiv. Zool. Spec. iii. p. 174. 



Coluber ocellata, Menctr. Cat. Rais. p. 70 (1832). 



Psamniopliis dahlii, Schley. Fhys. Serp. ii. p. 215, pi. viii. figs. 12 Sc 



13 (1837). 

 Zamenis dahlii, Bum. t^'- Bihr. vii. p. 692 (1854) ; Gilnth. Cat. p. 107 



(1858); Sfrauck, Schl. Russ. R. p. 123 (1873); Schreib. Herp^ 



Eur. p. 264 (1875); Jan, Icon. G6n. 49, pi. vi. fig. 3 (1876); 



Boettg. Ber. Senck. Ges. 1879-80, p. 153; Lortet,, Arch. Mus. 



Lyon, iii. 1883, p. 185, pi. xix. fig. 4. 



Body very slender ; head narrow; snout moderately prominent, 

 obtuse. Kostral a little broader than deep, just visible from above ; 

 internasals as long as or a little shorter than the pra^frontals ; 

 frontal not or but little broader than the supraocular, once and two 

 thirds or once and three fourths as long as broad, as long as or longer 

 than its distance from the end of the snout, shorter than the parietals ; 

 loreal longer than deep ; one pnieocular, usually in contact with the 

 frontal, with a subocular below it ; two postoculars ; temporals 2 -f 2 

 or 2 4- 3 (rarely 1 + 2 ) : eight or nine upper labials, fourth and fifth or 

 fift'h and sixth entering the eye ; four or five lower labials in contact 



