r)4. ZAMENIS. 399 



olive, uniform or with dark cross bands, which aro verj' close 

 toiicther ; a bright pink or red vertebral stripe sometimes present ; 

 whitish below, the end of each ventral with an olive or blackish 

 spot. 



Total length 1150 millim. : tail 330. 



Egypt, Arabia, Transcaspia, Syria, Persia, Baluchistan, Western 

 Himalayas. 



A. A ])ink or red vertebral stripe. (Z. rhoilorhachis, Jan, 

 G. dorsale, And.) 



a-b. c? (V.228; C. 13.3) & Shiraz, Persia, 

 v^. (V.217; C. 137). 



c. 2 (V. 227 ; C. 125). Shiraz. 



d. (S (V. 217 ; C. 130). Busliire, Persia. Dr. Leith [P.]. 



B. No vertebral stripe. (Z. ladacensis, And.) 



a. 2 (V. 248 ; C. ?). Egvpt. Sir.l. Wilkinson [P.]. 



b. Hgr. (V. 262 ; C. 140). Beiii Hassan, Upper M. W.Blackden,Esq. 



]<:gypt. [P.]. 



c. Hgr, (V. 257 ; C. 154). Tel-el-Amarna, Upper Dr. J. Anderson and 



Egvpt. Prof. W. M. Flin- 



ders Petrie [P.]. 



d. Hgr. (V. 252 ; C. 139). Midian, N. Arabia. Major Burton [P.]. 



e. Yg. (V. 229 ; C. ?). Near Aden. Col. Yerbiiry [P.]. 

 f-h. Yg. (V. 226, 220, 22G; Muscat. W. T. Blanford, Esq. 



C. 128, 137, 130). [P.]. 



i^, q- 6 (V. 239, 234, 235, Muscat. A. S.G. Jayakar, Esq. 



234 ;C.?, 125, 138,?), 2 [PJ. 



(V. 233,230,230:0.?,?, 



133), & hgr. (V. 235; 



C. 140). 



r. § (V. 225 ; C. 124). Dead Sea. Canon Tristram [C.l. 



s-t. 2 (V. 223, 244 ; C. Ai Dara, W. Slope of M. C. Eylandt [C.]. 



113, ?). Copet Daga, Trans- 



caspia. 



M. cJ (V. 218; C. 126). Bushire. Dr. Leith [P.]. 



V. S (V. 214 ; C. 127). South of Regan, S.E. W. T. Blanford, Esq. 



Persia. [C.]. 



w. Yg. (V. 215 ; C. 135. Kalagan, Baluchistan. W. T. Blanford, Esq . 



[C.]. 



x-y. $ (V. 246, 232; C. Western Rhugti Hills, W. T. Blanford, Esq. 



145,133). N. of Shahpoor. [P.]. 



^. Hgr. (V. 243; C. 135). N.\V. India. T. C. Jerdon, Esq. 



[P.]. 



a-^. 2 (V. 244 ; C. 131) Gilgit. Col. Biddulph rp.l. 



& yg. (V. "i^ ; C. 129). 



17. Zamenis ventrimaculatus. 



Coluber veutroniaculatus, Gray^ 111. Ind. Zool. ii. pi Ixxx tio- 1 

 (1834). ■ ^' 



chesnei, Martin, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1838, p. 81. 



diaderaa {nan Schley.), Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. Bern/ xxiii 



1854, p. 201. 



Zamenis ventrimaculatus, var. A, Giinth. Cat. p. 105 (1858). 



