106 REPTILES. 



rounded or pointed, forming together a straight line, rectangular 

 to the medial suture ; a pair of larger rounded scales behind. 



Var. A. Coluber ventrimaculatus. Gray, Ind. Zool. 1832, pi. . 

 f, 1. The specimen figured by Dr. Gray is a pregnant female. 

 Coluber chesneii, Martin, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1838, p. 81. 



Cross bands black, interrupted towards the side of back, and 

 forming a vertebral series of transverse oblong and a lateral one 

 of roundish spots, obsolete towards the tail ; cross band between 

 the eyes, spot under the eye and temple-streak black ; form and 

 structure of head-shields completely the same as in the next 

 varieties. 



a. Adult. Euphrates Expedition. 



b. Adult : female. Bengal. Presented by General Hardwicke. 



Original specimen of Dr. Gray's figure, exhibiting evidently 

 the keels of ventral plates. 



c. Young. Bengal. Presented by General Hardwicke. 



Var. B. Whitish, with large, black-edged, round brown spots ; 

 in older age the black edges may become confluent, forming 

 simple black cross bars ; or perhaps it is a species. 



d-g. Half-grown and young. India. Presented bv W. Masters, 

 Esq. 



Var. C. Olive, without cross bands; a broad rose-coloured band 

 along the whole back ; form and structure of head shields com- 

 pletely the same as in the following varieties. 



A, i. Adult and half-grown. Schiraz ; Kurdistan. 



Var. D. Couleuvre a bouquets, Geoffr. Descript. de I'Eg. pi. 8. 

 f. 1. Coluber florulentus, Schleg. Ess. ii, p. 166. Zamenis flo- 

 rulentus, Dum. ^- Bibr. p. 693. ? Coluber nummifer, Reuss, Mus. 

 Senck. 



Cross bands dark olive, some or all more or less continued 

 on the sides of abdomen ; crown sometimes with dark olive cross 

 bands; temple-streak none; dark spot under the eye. 



k-m. Adult and young. Egypt. Presented by J. Wilkinson, Esq. 



n. Adult. Egypt. Presented by J. Wilkinson, Esq. 



o. Adult : bad state. Egypt. Presented by J. Wilkinson, Esq. 



p. Adult : bad state. Egypt. Presented by Mr. Burton. 



q. Half-grown. Egypt. From the Collection of the Zoological 



Society, 

 r. Young. Egypt. Presented by Mr. Burton. 

 s. Young. Egypt. From Mr. Thornton's Collection. 

 t. Young. North Africa. 



