- 54. ZAMENIS. 397 
Se. 19; V. 206; C. 100). Zargoom, Persia. 
5 {Se 19; V. 194; ©. 101), ——? * Chatham Museum. 
. Var. astanus, Boettg.—Brown or olive above, each scale with a 
longitudinal light streak, and usually with large black spots 
relieved by yellowish shafts; belly red, spotted or dotted with 
black. elanotic specimens, entirely black with the chin 
and throat yellow, variegated with red, are frequent. 
Asia Minor, Rhodes, Cyprus, Syria. 
a. + oe (Se. 19; V. 202; Budrum, Ruins of H.MLS. ‘ Supply.’ 
b. 
¢. 
C 
05). Halicarnassus. 
b-d, e-h,i-k. f (Se.17,19, Cyprus. _ Lord Lilford [P.}. 
19, 19, 19; V. 203, 205, 
201, 204; ©. 231, 
112, 113, 111, to: y 
(Se. 19, i9, A 19, 19; 
211, 206, 207 
105, 108, 113, agg 
i. = Se. 19; V. 202; C. ?). rus. Dr, C. E. Cullen [PI 
ae ‘lo 9; v. 212; Palestine. Canon Tristram [O.]. 
07). 
n, O-p. Ne (Se. 19; V. 205; Merom. Canon Tristram [C.]. 
©. 105) & - (Se. 19, 
19; V. 214, 209; C. 125, 
115). 
qr 3 co 19, 19; V. Galilee. Canon Tristram [C.]. 
; C. 119, 122). 
15. Zamenis dahlii. 
- Egypt fig. 4 (1829). 
Tyre dab Fitcke i Ce, eg a0 (1838) ; , ae Icon. 
Be as Zool. Spec. i 174 (1831), and Faun. Casp. 
—— najadum, iii. aun. - 
Caue. p. 115, pple xxv (1842). “5 
ii ta, Eichw. Zool. Spec. iii. p. 174. 
Coluber ocellata, Ménétr. Cat. Rais. p. 70 (1832). 
corr 77 eggegdaaoad Phys. ad ii. p. 215, pl. viii. figs, 12 & 
Zamenis dtl Dum. § Bibr. vii. p. 692 (1854) ; Giinth. Cat. p. 107 
(1858); Strauch, Schl. Russ. z p 133 s (1878); F Schreib. “Herp 
vi tee 3 (1876); 
i oe i i i ee is i i ll 
Eur. p. 264 (1875); Jan, Icon. 
Ber. Senck, Ges, 1879-80, p. 183 
Lyon, iii. 1883, p. 185, pl. xix. fig. 4. 
Body very slender ; head narrow ; snout moderately prominent, 
pian Rostral a little broader than deep, just visible from above ; 
internasals as long as or a little shorter than the prefrontals; 
frontal not or but little broader than the supraocular, once and two 
thirds or once and three fourths as long as broad, as long as or longer 
than its distance from the end of the snout, shorter than the parietals ; 
- loreal longer than deep; one prwocular, usually in contact with the 
frontal, with a subocular below it ; two postoculars ; temporals 2+ 2 
or 2+3 (rarely 1 + 2); eight or nine upper labials, fourth and fifth or 
fifth and sixth entering the eye ; four or five lower labials in contact 
