52 COLUBBTDJE. 



brown above, \vith small black spots or a dorsal series of black cross 

 bars ; some adult specimens almost uniform olive-brown above ; a 

 black streak across the end of tbe snout, passing through the 

 nostrils, a curved one from eye to eye, another from the eye to the 

 angle of the mouth, a A-shaped one on the back of the head, with 

 the point on the frontal, and a black spot or vertical streak below 

 the eye ; lower parts whitish, checkered with black. Young (e) 

 vermilion above, with small black spots edged with yellowish white. 



Total length 830 millim. ; tail 150. 



Japan ; Corea. 



a, b. 3 (V. 219 ; C. 67) Japan. Leyden Museum. 

 ftyg.jV. 217;0.66). 



c. rf (V. 215 ; C. 67). Yokohama. H.M.S. ' Challenger.' 



d. Yg. (V. 224; C. 63). Nikko. H.M.S. 'Challenger.' 



e. Yg. (V. 206 ; C. 68). Haruna Hills, Japan, Lord Dormer [P.]. 



2500 ft. 



25. Coluber longissimns. 



Natrix longissima, Laur. Syn. Rept. p. 74 (1768). 



Coluber flavescens, Gmel. S. N. i. p. 1115 (1788) ; Daud. Rept. vi. 

 p. 272 (1803) ; Frivaldsky, Mon. Serp. Hung. p. 40 (1823) ; Lenz, 

 Schlangenk. p. 509, pi. vi. (1832) ; Bonap. Icon. Faun. Ital. (1833) ; 

 De Betta, Erp. Veron., Mem. Ace. Verona, xxxv. 1857, p'. 107. 



ffisculapii (non L.), Laccp. Serp. pp. 98, 165, pi. vii. fig. 2 



(1789); Bonnat. Encyd. MM., Ophiol. p. 43, pi. xxxix. fig. 2 

 (1790) ; Host, in Jacq. Coll. Botan. iv. p. 356, pi. xxvii. (1790) ; 

 Wolf, in Sturm, Deutschl. Faun. iii. Heft 2 (1799) ; Daud. Rept. 

 vii. p. 30 (1803) ; Metaxa, Mon. Serp. Rom. p. 37 (1823) ; Fri- 

 raldsky, 1. c. p. 42 ; Desmarest, Faunc Franc,., Rept.pl. xv. (1826) ; 

 Millet, Faune de Maine-et-Loire, p. 632, pi. iv. (1828) ; Schleg. 

 Phys. Serp. ii. p. 130, pi. v. figs. 1 & 2 (1837) ; Giinth. Cat. p. 88 

 (1858); Strauch, Schl. Russ. R. p. 57 (1873); Boettg. Bar. 

 Senckenb. Ges. 1889, p. 271; Mehely, Beitr. Mon. Kronstadt, 

 Herp. p. 29 (1892) ; Sarauw, Nat. og Mennesk. Copenh. xi. 1894, 

 p. 258 ; Diirigen, DeutscM. Amph. u. Rept. p. 308, pi. viii. fig. 1 

 (1894). 



longissimus, Bonnat. 1. c. p. 59 ; Blanf. Zool. E. Pers. p. 420 



(1876). 



asclepiadeus, Donnd. Zool. Beytr. iii. p. 205 (1798). 



sellmanni, Donnd. I. c. p. 207. 



pannonicus, Donnd. I. c. p. 208. 



leprosus, Donnd. I. c. 



romanus, Suckow, Anfangsqr. d. Naturg. iii. p. 198 (1798). 

 scopolii, Merr. Tent. p. 104 (1820). 



fugax, Eichw. Zool. Spec. iii. p. 174 (1831). 



Zamenis sesculapii, Fitzing. Beitr. Landesk. Oesterr. \. p. 326 (1832) ; 



Eichw. Faun. Casp.-Cauc. p. 150 (1841). 



Callopeltis flavescens, Bonap. Mem. Ace. Torin. (2) ii. 1839, p. 432. 

 Coluber sauromates, j uv., Nordm. in Demidoff, Voy. Runs. Mer. iii. 



p. 346, Rept. pi. vi. fig. 2 (1840). 

 Elaphis fesculapii, Dum. 8f Bibr. vii. p. 278 (1854) ; Jan, Icon. Gen. 



24, pi. i. fig. 4 (1867) ; Viaud-Grandm. Et. Serp. Vend6e, p. 10 



(18(58) ; Fatio, Vert. Suisse, iii. p. 136 (1872); De Betta, Faun. 



Ital., JRett. Anf. p. 43 (1874). 



