206 COLUBRID^. 



15. Coronella brachyura. 



Zamenis brnchvurus, Giinth. Ann. # Mag. N. ff.(S) xviii. 



p. 27, pi. vi. fig. A.; Blanf. Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xxxix. l-7<>, 

 p. .'ir-J: .IWr/x 7W. /bo/. &>c. 1871, p. 176; 7%<wA. CW. Jfc>/><. 

 AV/7. Ind. p. 171 (1876). 



Coronolla brachyura, Bouleng. Faun. 2nd., Kept. p. 309 (1800). 



Rostral broader than deep, visible from above ; suture between 

 the internasals shorter than that between the pnefrontals ; frontal 

 once and a half as long as broad, as long as its distance from the 

 end of the snout, a little shorter than the parietals ; loreal as long 

 as deep; one praocular ; two postoculars ; temporals 2 + 2; eight 

 upper labials, fourth and fifth entering the eye ; five lower labials 

 in contact with the anterior chin-shields, which are slightly longer 

 than the posterior ; the latter widely separated from each other by 

 three series of scales. Scales in 23 rows. Ventrals 213-223; 

 anal entire ; subcandals 46-53. Olive-brown above, with rather 

 indistinct light variegations on the anterior half of the body ; lower 

 surface whitish. 



Total length 445 millim. ; tail 55. 



Deccan. 



fl. ? (V. 223; C. 46). Poonab, Dr. Leith [P.]. (Type.) 



16. Coronella pnnctata. 



Coluber punctatus, Linn. S. N. i. p. 376 (1766) '; Daud. Sept. vii. 

 p. 178(1803); Harlan, Journ. Ac. Philad. v. 1 827, p. 354, and 

 Med. Phys. Res. p. 117 (1835) ; Storer, Rep. Fish. 8f Sept. Mass. 

 p. 225 (1839) ; Holbr. N. Am. Herp. iii. p. 81, pi. xviii. (1842) ; 

 DeKay, N. Y. Faun. iii. p. 39, pi. xiv. n>. 29 (1842). 



torquatus, Shaw, Zool. iii. p. 553 (1802). 

 Calamaria punctata, Schleg. Phys. Serp. ii. p. 39 (1837). 

 Diadophis punctatus, Baird 8f Gir. N. Am. Sept. p. 112(1853); 



Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1860, p. 250 ; Jan, Arch. Zool. Anat. Phys. 



ii. 1863, p. 263, and Icon. Gen. 15, pi. vi. fig. 1 (1866); Garm. N. 



Am. Sept. p. 72, pi. ii. fig. 2 (1883) ; Bocourt, Miss. Sc. Me.r., It,-/*. 



p. 618, pi. xl. fig. 1 (1886) ; Cope, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mm. xiv. 1892, 



p. 617; H. Garm. Bull. Illin. Lab. iii. 1892, p. 300. 

 Ablabes punctatus, Dum, fy Bibr. vii. p. 310 (1854) ; Giinth. Cat. 



p. 28 0858). 



occipitalis, Giinth. 1. c. p. 29. 



Diadophis occipitalis, Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1860, p. 250. 

 punctatus, var. pallidus, Cope, 1. c. ; Bocourt, 1. c. p. 621. 



dysopes, Cope, I. c. p. 251. 



Snout not prominent ; rostral nearly twice as broad as deep, just 

 visible from above ; suture between the internasals shorter than 

 that between the praefrontals ; frontal a little longer than its dis- 

 tance from the end of the snout, about two thirds the length of the 

 parietals ; loreal as long as deep or a little deeper than long ; two 

 (rarely one) prse- and two postoculars ; temporals 1 + 1 ; seven 

 upper labials, third and fourth entering the eye, or eight, fourth 



