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18. Tropidonotus natrix. 
Coluber natrix, Linn. S. N. i. p. 380 (1766) ; Daud. Rept. vii. - 34, 
pl. Ixxxii. fig. ] (1803); Metara, Mon, Serp. Rom. p. 33 (1825). 
Natrix vulgaris, Laur. Syn. Rept. p. 75 (1768); Collett, Vidensk. 
Selsk. Forh, Christ. 1873, no. 3, p. 2. 
—— gronoyviana, Laur. 1. ¢. ; 
Coluber scutatus, Pall. Reise, i. p. 459 (1771). 
—— bipes, Gmel. S. N. i. p. 1 (1788). 
—— gronovianus, Gmel. /. c. p. 1101. 
—— tyrolensis, Gmel. /. ec. p. 1102. 
—— arabicus, Gel. 1, c. 
p. 57. 
—— torquatus, Lacép. 1. c. pp. 100 & 147. 
od sacs Daud, Ret. viii. p. 328 (1803). 
—— persa, Pall. Zoogr. Ross.-As. iii. p. 41 (1811). 
minutus, Pall. 1. ¢. 
—-~ hybridus, Merr, Tent. p. 125 (1820). 
——- viperinus (non Latr.), Metaxa, l. ¢. p. 34. 
Tropidonotus natrix, Bote, Isis, Med) 534; Schleg. Phys. Serp. ii. 
p. 302 (1837); Nordm. in Demid. Voy. Russ. Mér, iii. p. 350 
(1840); Diwan, §& Bibr. vii. p. 555 (1854); Giinth. Cat. p. 61 
(1858); Strauch, Erp. Alg. p. 58 (1862); Jan, Arch. Zool. Anat. 
Phys. iti. 1865, p. 207, and Icon. Gén. 26, pls. i. & ii. figs. 2-4 
(1868); Viaud-Grandm, Et. Serp. Vend. p. 12 (1868); Fatio, 
Vert. Suisse, iii. p. 147 (1872); Anders. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1872, 
. 393; Strauch, Schl. Russ. R. p. 141 (1873); De Betta, Faun. 
Fal. Rett. Anf. p. 45 (1874) ; Schreib, Herp. a 237 (1875) ; 
Lataste, Herp. Gir. p. 128 (1876); Blanf. Zool. E. Pers. p. 418 
(1876); Lessona, Atti Ace. Tor. xii. 1877, R 182, pl. iv.; 
Bedriaga, Bull. Soc. Nat. Mose, 1881, p. 287; Ninni, Atti Soe. 
Ital. xxiii. 1881, p. 70 ; Leydig, Abh. Senck. Ges. xiii. 1883, p. 169; 
Boettg. Zool. Jahrb. iii, 1888, p. 933; Bedriaga, Amph, et Rept. 
de Portug. p. 68 (1889) ; Peracca, Boll. Mus. Torin. vy. 1890, no. 92 ; 
Camerano, Monogr. Ofid. Colubr. Ital. p. 9 (1891); Bouleng. Tr. 
Zool, Soc, xiii. 1891, p. 148; HH. §& T. Piel de Churcheville, Bull. 
' Soe. H. N. Ouest Fr. ii. 1892, p. 35, pl. ii. 
—— hybridus, Boie, 1. e. 
Coluber siculus, Cuv. R. A. 2nd ed., ii. p. 84 (1829) ; Bibr. § Bory, 
Expéd. Se. Morée, Zool. p. 73, pl. xiv. tig. 1 (1833), 
Tropidonotus ater, Lichw. Zvol. Spee. iii. p. 173 (1881), and Faun. 
.-Caue. p. 106, pl. xxii. (1841), 
—— persicus, Lichw, Zool. Spee. iii. p. 173. 
Coluber bilineatus, Bibr. §& Bory, 1. ec. p. 73, pl. xiv. fig. 2. 
mene gin git Zook. Font. Deal (1834); Beli, Brit. Rept. 
. 47, fig. ( ). 
oe cetti, Gené, Mem. Ace. Torin. (2) i. 1839, p. 272, pl. iv. fig. 1; 
Bonup. Icon. Faun. Ital. (1840). 
—- — vars, murorum & minax, Bonap. Mem. Ace. Torin. 
(2) ii, 1889, p. 438, 
Tropidonotus natrix, vars. nigra & colehica, Nurdm. in Demid. op. 
cit., Rept. pls. xi. & xii. 
—— persa, Lichw. Faun. .-Caue. p. 105, I: xxi. 
—— natrix, var. picturata, Jan, ll. cc.; F. Miill. Verh. nat. Ges. 
Basel, vii. 1885, p. 681. 
—— fallax, Fatio, 1. c. p. 158. 
helveticus, Lacép. Serp. pp. 100 & 326 (1789); Daud. t. c. — 
