402 COLTJBKIDiE. 



c. S (V. 202 ; C. 102). Karman. S.E. Persia. W. T. Blanford, Esq. 



FE.]. 



d. Yg. (V. 200 ; C. lOo). Ilelmund P.iver. Dr. J. Aitcliison [C.]. 



Afghan Boundary 

 Commission. 

 e-f. 2 (^"^ 206, 209 ; C. Between Tirphul and Dr. J. Aitcliison [C.]. 

 ■ 86, 106). Kilki. Afghan Boundary 



Commission. 

 </. cJ (V. 193 ; C. 98). Candahar. Col. Swiuhoe [P.]. 



B. Pale greyish with a bright orange vertebral stripe. 



r. J. Aitchisf 

 Afghan Bo 

 Commission. 



/i. 2 (V. 206; C. 109). New Gulran. Dr. J. Aitchison [C.]. 



Afghan Boundary 



19. Zamenis elegantissimus. 



Zamenis elegantissimus, G'unth. Troc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 977, 

 pi. Ixii. 



Snout strongly projecting, obtusely pointed. Rostral a little 

 broader than deep, deeply hollowed out beneath, the portion visible 

 from above nearly one third as long as its distance from the fi'ontal ; 

 internasals a little shorter than the praefrontals : frontal much 

 wider than the supraocular, once and one fourth as long as broad, 

 as long as its distance from the end of the snout, much shorter than 

 the parietals ; loreal square or a little longer than deep ; two prse- 

 oculars, upper in contact with the frontal, with one or two sub- 

 oculars below them; two postoculars; temporals 2 + 2 or 2 + 3 ; eight 

 upper labials, fifth, or foxirth and fifth, entering the eye ; five lower 

 labials in contact with the anterior chin-shields ; posterior chin- 

 shields nearly as long as the anterior, separated from each other by 

 two series of scales. Scales smooth, in 19 rows. Yentrals very ob- 

 tusely angulate laterally, 197-200 ; anal divided ; subeaudals 79-83. 

 Pale olive above, with a bright orange vertebral line, interrupted 

 by broad black cross bands, which descend on to the sides of the 

 belly and form complete rings round the tail ; head with two black 

 cross bands, the anterior on the frontal and supraoculars and passing 

 through the eyes, the second across the parietals ; belly yellowish. 



Total length 690 millim. ; tail I'jO. 



Arabia. 



ff. 5 (V. 197; C. 79). Mountains east of El Major Burton [P.]. 



Muwavliih, Midian. (Tvpe.) 

 b. 2 (V. ca. 200; C.83). Siuaitic Peninsula. A. H. Hart, Esq. 



[P.]. 



20. Zamenis florulentus. 



? Coluber guttatus {non Linn.), Forsk. Descr. Anim. p. 14 (1775). 



? Coluber cahirinus, Gmel. S. N. i. p. 1115 (1788). 



Coluber florulentus, Gcoffr. Descr. Egyptc, Sept. pp. 146 & 151, 



