60. COLUBER. 45 



continued from the pye to the angle of the mouth ; belly yellowish, 

 dotted or spotted with blackish, 

 length 000 millim. ; tail 170. 



5 .thrrn Russia, Transcaucasia, and Temperate Asia and Japan. 



a. $ (Sc. 25 ; V. 193 ; Caucasus. 

 GO). 



/,. Yi.'. (Sc. 27 ; V. 180; Mangyschlak. St. Petersburg Mus. 



C.' [E.]. 



c. $ (Sc. 25 ; V. 198 ; Wernoje. St. Petersburg Mus. 

 C. 60). [E.]. 



d. $ (Sc. 25 ; V. 198 ; Semipolatinsk. St. Petersburg Mus. 

 C. 58). [E.]. 



e. 9 (Sc. 25 ; V. 203 ; R. Hi. Rev. H. Lansdell 

 C. 61). [C.]. 



/, y. S (Sc. 27 ; V. 198 ; R. Emba. St. Petersburg Mus. 



C. 75)' & 9 (Sc. 25; V. [E.]. 



206; C. 60). 



h. S (Sc. 23 ; V. 179 ; Ussuri R, Warsaw Mus. [E.]. 



C. 60). 



. $ (Sc. 25 ; V. 200; Pekin. R. Swinhoe, Esq. 



C. ' [C.]. 



A- /. H-r. (Si\ -27. 25; V. Western hills of S. W. Bushell, Esq. 



196, 187 ; C. 59, 64). Pekin. [PJ. 



m-n, o-p. (S (Sc. -">. 27 ; Chefoo. R. Swinhoe, Esq. 



V. 188,186; C. 69, 71) [C.]. 



6 yg. (Sc. 25, 25 ; V. 

 198, 198 ; C. 65, ?). 



q. Yg. (Sc. 25; V. 209; Chen Lang Kuan, Mr. John Brock 



C. ' GanKiiur. [PJ. 



r-s. $ (Sc. 27 ; V. 202 ; Mountains north of A." E. Pratt, Esq. 



C. 68) & yg. (Sc. 23 ; Kiu Kiang. [C.]. 



V. 187 ; C". 76). 



t. Yg. (Sc. 25; V. 204; Hoi-How, Hainan. J. Neumann, Esq. 



C. 80). [PJ. 



. J (Sc. 27 ; V. 200 ; China. Sir E. Belcher [P.I 



C. 79). 



v. cJ (Sc. 25 ; V. 180 ; China. J. Brenchley, Esq. 



C. 68). [P.]. 



18. Coluber quatnorlineatus. 



Coluber quatuorlineatus, La^, t . Serp. pp.82, 163, pi. vii. n>. 1 (1789) ; 



Bvnnat. Enn/d. Meth., Ophiol. p. 44, pi. xxxix. fig. 1 (1790). 



nauii, Dotmd. '/.<>!. li,-itr. iii. p. 200 (1798). 



quadristriatus, Donnd. I. c. p. 207. 



quaterradiatus, Gmrl. !)<> \aturf. xxviii. 1799, p. 158, pi. iii. 



fig. 1; Desmarett, Faune Front;., Rept. pi. xiv. (1 V 2(>); SeUty, 



!'//. Serp. ii. p. 159, pi. vi. fiir-. ' X 10 (1837); Werner, Verh. 



zool.-bot. Get. Wien, xli. 1891, p. 759. 

 daphis, Shaw, Zool. iii. p. 450 (1802) ; Metnra, Man. Serp. 



Rom. p. 37 (1*2.",) ; /'// '/v/A/.v/.- v . Mon. Serp. Jinny, p. 44 (1823). 

 quadrilim -at u-. I>n,ul. Rept. vi. p. 266 (1803) ; Itoulcny. Ann. \ 



Mag. N. //. (6) vii. 1891, p. 280. 

 sauromaU-s, Pall. Zoogr. Rott.-A*. iii. p. 42 (1811); Eichw. 



Zool. Spec. iii. p. 174 (1831); Nordm. in Dcmidu/, Vvy. Riut. 



Mir. iii. p. 345, Rept. pi. iii. (1840> 



