42 



COLUBRIDJ:. 



c. Hgr. (Sc. 27 ; V. 245; Malta. C. A. Wright, Esq. [P.]. 

 C. 81). 



d. $jSc. 27; V. 247; Zara, Dalinatia. Count M. G. Peracca [P.]. 

 C. 75). 



e-?. d (Sc. 27, 25; V. 241, Zara. Dr. F. Werner [E.]. 



238 ; C. 84, 84) & 2 



(Sc. 27 ; V. 245 ; C. ?). 

 h-i. rf (Sc. 25; V. 234; Zara. Hr. Spada-Novak [C.]. 



C. 83) & (Sc. 25 ; 



V. 238 ; C. (38). 



B. Striped form. (C. quadrilineatus, Pall.) 



a. $ (Sc. 27 ; V. 247 ; Trieste. Dr. Ruppell [P.]. 

 C. 77). 



b. Yg. (Sc. 25; V. 226; Ionian Ids. Dr. Mann [P.]. 

 C. 79). 



c. <J (Sc. 25; V. 245; ? 



C. 81). 



14. Coluber hohenackeri. 



Coluber rubriventris, Dioiyubsky, Essay Nat. Hist. Russ. Emp. p. 67 



[Russian] (1832). 

 hohenackeri, Strauch, Schl. Russ. It. p. 70 (1873); Boettg. 



Ber. Senclf,. Ges. 1890, p. 294. 



Rostral broader than deep, just visible from above : internasals 

 broader than long, shorter than the prjefrontals ; frontal a little 

 longer than broad, as long as its distance from the end of the snout, 

 shorter than the parietals ; loreal a little longer than deep ; one 

 prae- and two postoculars ; temporals 2 + 3; eight upper labials, 

 fourth and fifth entering the eye ; five lower labials in contact with 

 the anterior chin-shields, which are longer than the posterior. 

 Scales smooth or faintly keeled, in 23 (rarely 25) rows. Ventrals 

 201-228, rounded ; anal divided ; subcaudals 60-66. Grey above, 

 with four alternating series of dark spots ; a /\ -shaped black marking 

 on the nape, a black streak from the eye to the angle of the mouth, 

 and a black line below the eye ; belly yellowish or reddish, closely 

 spotted or marbled with blackish grey. 



Total length 650 millim. ; tail 110. 



Transcaucasia and Asia Minor. 



a-b. J (V. 211 ; C. 63) & yg. Amasia, Asia Minor. 

 (V. 221 ; C. 62). 



15. Coluber mandarinns. 



Coluber mandarinue, Cantor, Zool. Chman, pi. xii. (1840), and Ann. 

 $ Mag. N. H. ix. 1842, p. 483 ; Giinth. Cat. p. 91 (1858), atid 

 Kept. Brit. 2nd. p. 238, pi. xx. fig. H (1864)*. 



Rostral twice as broad as deep, just visible from above ; inter- 

 nasals shorter than the prsefrontals ; frontal a little longer than 



* Moellendorff'g Coluber mandarinus (Journ. N. China Br. As. Soc. [2] xi. 

 1877, p. 104), " a black water-snake with orange-red marks," from the province 

 of Chihli, Northern China, must be a different snake. 



