60. COLUBER. 47 



b-c, d. $ (V. 224 ; C. ?), Naples. Count M. G. Peracca 



h-r. (Y.iMO: C.77),& [P.]. 



".; C.70). 

 e-f. J (V. 208; C. 79) & Naples. Dr. F. S. Monticelli 



hgr. (V. 219; C. 71). [P.]. 



g, h. 4 (V. 210; C. 79) Zara, Dalmatia. Dr. F. Werner [E.]. 



.v yg. (V.218; C. CO). 

 I-*. rf (V. 205 ; C. 79) & Zara, Dalmatia. 



$ (V.218; C. 68). 

 L ? (V. 217 ; C. 70). S. Europe. Dr. Giinther [P.]. 



B. Spots persistent throughout life. (C. sauromates, Pall.) 



a. $ (V. 210; C. 66). Malo, Derbent>kvUluss, St. Petersburg Mus. 



Gov. Astrakhan. [E.l. 



b. $ (V. 206 ; C. 04). Shirvan. Berlin Museum [E.]. 



c. $ (V. 211 ; C. 71). ? Sir A. Smith [P.]. 



19. Coluber taenmrtis. 



Elaphis virgattiP, part., Giinth. Cat. p. 79 (1868). 



taeniurus, Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1860, p. 565 ; Giinth. Pept. 



lirit. Ind. p. 242 (184)4) ; Strauch, Schl. Pius*. P. p. 103 (1873) ; 



lioukny. Ann. $ May. A". //. (5) xix. 1887, p. 170. 

 Coluber nuthalli, Theob. Cat. Rt-pt. A*. &>c. Mug. p. 51 (1868). 

 Klaphis yuiiiiMii'-nsis, Anders. An. Zntil. J{t<*. Yunnan, p. 813 (1879). 



grabowskvi, l-'isther, Arch.f. Nat. 1885, p. 59, pi. iv. fig. 3. 

 Coluber tseniurus, Bmtleng. Ann. S? May. N. H. (6) v. 1890, p. 139, 



and Faun. I/id., Pept. p. 333 (1890) ; W. Sclater, Journ. As. Soc. 



Beng. be. 18U1, p. 239. 



Rostral broader than deep, risible from above ; internasals a little 

 broader than long, much shorter than the pnefrontals ; frontal once 

 and one third to once and two thirds as long as broad, as long as or 

 shorter than its distance from the end of the snout, as long as or a 

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

 praeocular, sometimes in contact with the frontal, usually with a 

 small subocular below it ; two postoculars ; temporals 2 + 2 or 2 + 3 ; 

 usually nine (sometimes eight) upper labials, fifth and sixth (or 

 fourth and fifth) entering the eye ; five or six lower labials in 

 contact with the anterior chin-shields, which are as long as or 

 a little longer than the posterior. Scales in 23 or 25 rows, dorsals 

 v but distinctly keeled, outer rows smooth. Ventrals dis- 

 tinctly ungulate laterally, 230-284 ; anal divided, rarely entire ; 

 subcaudals 90-107. Grey-brown or olive above, head and nape 

 uniform ; a black stripe on each side of the head, passing through 

 the eye ; anterior part of back with black transverse lines or net- 

 work, posterior part with a pale vertebral stripe between two broad 

 black ones ; belly yellowish anteriorly, greyish posteriorly ; a black 

 stripe along each side of the posterior part of t In- belly and along each 

 side of the tail, separated from the upper lateral stripe by a whitish 

 tk. 



Total length 1500 millim. ; tail 300. 



Manchuria, China; Sikkim, Cochinchina, Siam, Borneo, Sumatra. 



