60. COLUBER. 41 



B. 35 to 50 dorsal spots from the nape to the base of the tail ; 



l:il)i:ils without black sutures. (C. emoryi, B. & G.) 



a . \j. (Sc. 27; V. 207; Kansas. Smithsonian Instit. [P.], 



C. 07). 



1. 9 (Sc. 31; V. 225; Duval Co., Texas. W. Taylor, Esq. [C.]. 

 C. tw). 



13. Coluber leopardinus. 



Coluber quadrilineatus (non Lactp.), Pall. Zoogr. Ross.-As. iii. p. 40 

 (1811) ; Gunth. Cat. p. 88 (1858) ; Strauch, Schl. Ritss. R.p. 73 

 (1873); Bedriaga, Bull. Soc. X<if. M,.*<: hi. !>>:>, p. 208. 



leopardinus, Bunap. Icon. Faun. Ital. (1834) ; Schltg, Phi/s. 



Serp. ii. p. 109 (1837). 



cruentatus, Steven, Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. viii. 1835, p. 317. 



Callopeltis leopardinus, Bonup. Mem, Ace. Tor. (2) ii. 183!), p. 432 ; 



Nordm. in Detniduff, Voy. Russ. Mer. iii. p. 348, Rept. pis. vi., viii., 



ix. (1840); De Betta, Atti 1st. Yen. (3) xiii. 1808, p. 934, and 



Faun. Ital., Rftt. Anf. p. 38 (1874) ; Totnasini, Wins. Mitth. aus 



m. u. llcrzeg.n. p/618 (18H4). 



Ablabes rjuadriliiieatus, Dum. $ Bibr. vii. p. 319 (1854). 



Natiix leopardiua, Cupe, 1'roc. Ac. Philutl. l>'c'. \>. 338. 



Coronella quadrilineata, Jan, Arch. Zool. Anat. Phys. ii. 18G3, p. 247, 

 and Icon. Gen. 13, pi. v. (18t>o). 



Callopeltis quadrilineatus, Schreib. Herp. Eur. p. 277 (1875) ; 

 Catm-nino, Jf un . Ofid. Ital., Colubr. p. 52 (1891) ; Mina-Palumbo, 

 Xat. Sicil. xii. 1893, p. 127. 



Rostral broader than deep, just visible from above ; internasals 

 broader than long, shorter than the praetrontals ; frontal once and 

 one third to once and a half as long as broad, as long as its distance 

 from the end of the snout, shorter than the parietals ; loreal longer 

 than deep ; one prae- and two postoculars; temporals 1 or 2 + 2 or 3; 

 eight upper labials, fourth and filth entering the eye ; four or five 

 lower labials in contact with the anterior chin-shields, which are 

 longer than the posterior. Scales smooth, in U") or '21 rows. Ventruls 

 u^ -iv,' i. rounded ; anal divided ; subcaudals U8-89. Greyish or pale 

 brown above, with a dorsal series of dark brown or reddish bl:it-k- 

 edged transverse spots and a lateral alternating series of smaller 

 bFack spots, or with two dark brown black-edged stripes bordering a 

 yellowish vertebral stripe ; usually a A-shaped dark marking 

 on the occiput and nape ; a crescentic Mark hand from eye to eye, 

 an oblique black band from the postoculars to the angle of the mouth, 

 and a black spot below the eye ; lower parts white, checkered with 

 black, or nearly entirely black. 



:1 length 900 millim. ; tail 160. 



Southern Italy, Malta, Dalmatia, Balkan Peninsula, Crimea, 

 Asia Minor. 



A. Spotted form. (C. leopardinut, Bp.) 



,& <f (Be.85; V.3; Malta. M.iwr Attewoll [P.]. 



' M .v yg. (Sc. L'7 ; 

 V. l'41; C. 7tj. 



