60. COLUBER. 53 



Callopeltis resculapii, Schreib. fferp. Eur. p. 281 (1875); Tomasini, 



Mitth. aus Bosn. u. Utryy. ii. p. t\M (1894). 

 Elaphis flavescens, Lcydig, Ahh. Senck. Ges. xiii. 1883, p. 170. 

 (.'allopfltis longissimus, Camerano, Mon. Ofid. Ital., ColuJtr.p. 54 



(IK Ml : Mitm-Pulumbo, Nat. Sicil. xii. 1893, p. 129. 

 Coronella austriaca, part., Sarauw, Nat. oa Mennesk, Copenh. x. 1893, 

 816. 



Rostral broader than deep, just visible from above ; internasals 

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

 one fourth to once and one third as long as broad, as long as its 

 distance from the rostral or the end of the snout, shorter than the 

 parietals ; loreal as long as deep or longer ; one pne- and two 

 postoculars; temporals 2+3 ; eight or nine upper labials, fourth 

 and fifth or fifth and sixth entering the eye ; four or five lower 

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

 as or a little longer than the posterior. Scales smooth, or faintly 

 keeled on the posterior part of the body, in 21 or 23 rows. Ventrals 

 distinctly angulate laterally, 212-248 ; anal divided ; subcaudals 

 60-91. Grey or olive-brown above, some of the scales with whitish 

 lines on the margins ; sometimes with four darker stripes along the 

 body * ; a dark streak behind the eye ; upper lip and a triangular 

 patch on each side behind the temple yellow ; belly uniform pale 

 yellow. Young with dark brown dorsal spots, forming four or five 

 longitudinal series, a A-shaped black marking on the nape, behind 

 the yellow temporal blotches, a dark brown bar across the forehead, 

 and a black vertical line below the eye ; belly greyish or yellowish 

 olive. 



Total length 110 millim. ; tail 240. 



Central Europe, Denmark t, Italy, Dalmatia, Balkan Peninsula, 

 Cis- and Transcaucasia. 



a-b. c? (Sc. 23, 23 ; V. 225, France. 



222 ; C. 78, 82). 

 e. (j (Sc. 21 ; V. 223 ; C. Nantes. 



82.) 

 d-f. rf (Sc. 23 ; V. 220 ; Schlangenbad. Dr. Giinther [P.]. 



C. 83), $ (Sc. 23; V. 



231; C. 77), & hgr. 



(Sc.23; V. 22G;C.8C). 



* The report of the occurrence of C. qutitiiorlineatua at Saumur, Maine-et- 

 Loire (Millet, Faune de Maine-et-Loire, p. 6)), is evidently baaed on such a 

 striped specimen, as pointed out by Viaud-Grandmarais. 



t I have expressed doubts (Zool. 1894, p. 14) as to whether a large specimen 

 (1280 millim. lone) with 218 ventral shields, from the island of Seeland, had 

 been correctly referred by Sarauw to Coronella austriaca. Further notes on 

 that specimen, captured at Peterswarft in 1803, and now preserved in the 

 Seminary at Skaarup, which Mr. Sarauw subsequently sent me at my request, 

 accompanied by a sketch of the head, changed my doubU into certainty : the 

 Peterswarft snake belongs to a distinct species, which turns out to be Coluber 

 longitsimut. Three specimens have been examined by Mr. Sarauw, which are 

 perhaps the last survivors of a snake formerly inhabiting the forests of Southern 

 Seeland. It appears that, so far, no authentic specimen of Coronella austriaca 

 is known from Denmark* 



