264 i "i.ntun i.. 



between the praefrontals ; frontal once and a half as long as broad, 

 nearly twice as broad as the supraocular, as long as its distance 

 from the end of the snout, and much shorter than the parietal* ; 

 loreal, if present, small, longer than deep ; one pr- and one post- 

 ocular ; temporals 1 + 1 ; seven upper labials, third and fourth 

 entering the eye ; four or five lower labials in contact with the 

 anterior chin-shields, which are longer than the posterior. Scales 

 in 15 rows. Ventrals 211-235; anal divided; subcaudals 73-82. 

 Pale olive or reddish above, anteriorly with more or less distinct 

 black transverse lines, posteriorly uniform or with small black spots ; 

 head sometimes black above ; lower parts white. 



Total length 450 millim.; tail 110. 



Transcaspia and Sind. 



a. Hgr. (V. 236; C. 73). Ashkabad, Trans- M. P. A. Warent- 



caspia. zoff [C.]. 



b. $ . (V. 211 ; C. 78). Kolustan, Sind. W. T. Blanford, Esq. 



[P.]. 



11. Coiitia cor on ell a. 



Calamaria coronella, Schleg. Phys. Serp. ii. p. 48 (1837). 

 Homalosoma coronelloides, Jan, Arch. Zool. Anat. Phys. ii. 1862, 



p. 34, and Icon. Gtn. 13, pi. iii. fig. 5 (1866). 

 coronella, Jan, II. cc. p. 36, pi. iv. fig. 3 ; Lortet, Arch. Mus. 



Lyon, iii. 1883, p. 184, pi. xix. fig. 3 ; Peracca, Soil. Mus. Torino, 



ix. 1894, no. 167, p. 13. 

 Ablabes coronella, Giinth. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1864, p. 489; Boettg. 



Ber. Senck. Ges. 1879-80, p. 140. 



Rostral much broader than deep, well visible from above ; suture 

 between the internasals as long as or shorter than that between 

 the praefrontals ; nasal undivided ; frontal longer than its distance 

 from the end of the snout, nearly as long as or longer than the 

 parietals, not more than once and a half as broad as the supra- 

 ocular; a small square loreal present or absent; one praeocular; 

 one postocular (rarely two); temporals 1 + 1 or 1 + 2; seven upper 

 labials, third and fourth entering the eye ; anterior chin-shields 

 short and in contact with three or four labials, second pair very 

 small and separated by a scale. Scales in 17 rows (rarely 15 or 

 19). Ventrals 103-148 ; anal divided ; subcaudals 24-52. Pale 

 brown above, with brown spots which may be confluent into 

 transverse bands ; a broad crescentic dark brown collar, descending 

 to and sometimes extending across the throat ; lips yellowish, with a 

 blackish vertical streak below the eye and another between the two 

 last labials ; yellowish white inferiorly ; belly with round brown spots. 



Total length 295 millim. ; tail 45. 



Syria. 



a. $ (Sc.17 ; V.128 ; C. 29). Merom. Canon Tristram [C.J. 



b-c. c? (Sc. 17 ; V. 103, Lake of Galilee. Canon Tristram [C.]. 



103 ; C. 28, 29). 



d. $ (Sc.19 ; V.123 ; C. 24). Lebanon. Canon Tristram [C.]. 



e-g. $ (Sc. 17; V. 120; Haifa. Senckenberg Museum 



C. 31) <fe yg. (Sc. 17; [E.]. 



V. 127, 123; C. 2, 27). 



