62 REPTILES. 



w. Adult. South Europe. Presented by R. B. Webb, Esq. 

 x. Adult : bead injured. Europe. Presented by Lord Orkney. 

 y. Adult. Sine patria. Presented by the College of Surgeons. 



Var. C. atra, Nor dm. Let. 11. Uniform black above, with 

 an obsolete lighter collar ; along each side of belly a series of 

 white spots. 



z. Adult. Epidaurus. Presented by the Rev. W. Hennah. 



Var. D. bilineata, Bibron. Back with two yellowish longitu- 

 dinal lines. 



Coluber murorum, Vest. Tropidonotus natrix, var., Schleg. 

 Ess. ii. p. 307. Tropidonotus chersoides, pt., Dum. <^- Bibr. 

 p. 564. Lines seventeen to nineteen. 



a. With a collar. 



a. Large specimen. Shores of Mediterranean. Presented by 



J. Miller, Esq. 

 /3. Adult. Xauthus. Presented by Sir C. Fellows, 

 y. Half-grown. Epidaurus. Presented by the Rev. W. Hennah. 

 8. Adult. Bononia. Presented by J. J. Bianconi. 

 e. Half-grown. Bononia. Presented by J. J. Bianconi. 

 rj, f. Young. Bononia. Presented by J. J. Bianconi. 

 6. Adult. Europe. 



1. Adult. ? From Mr. Argent's Collection. 



b. Without a collar. 

 Tropidonotus persa, Eichw. I.e. t. 21. 



k. Adult. Asia. From the Haslar Collection. 



b. Species allied to T. viperinus. 



2. Tropidonotus viperinus. 



Schlegel, Essai, ii. p. 325. pi. 12. f. 14, 15. 



Scales in twenty-one rows ; upper labials seven, the third and 

 fourth touching the eye; one anterior, two posterior oculars; 

 anterior frontals sharply pointed in front, narrow. Olive, with 

 a lateral series of yellowish, dark-edged, round spots, or with two 

 yellowish longitudinal lines on the back, dark spots between. 



Var. A. viperina. 



Coronella tessellata, Laurenti, Synops. p. 89 ; Latr. Rept. iv. 

 p. 49; Baud. Rept. vii. p. 125. Natrix viperina, Merr. Tent. 

 126; Cuv. Regne Anim. Natrix tessellata, Merr. Tent. p. ; 



Bonap. Faun. Ital. pi. . Tropidonotus viperinus, Dum. Sf 

 Bibr. p. 560. 



