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54. ZAMENIS. 399 
olive, uniform or with dark cross bands, which are very close 
together ; a bright pink or red vertebral stripe sometimes present ; 
whitish below, the end of each ventral with an olive or blackish 
P Total length 1150 millim. ; tail 330. 
Egypt, Arabia, Transcaspia, Syria, Persia, Baluchistan, Western 
Himalayas. 
A. A pink or red vertebral stripe. (Z. rhedevhattita Jan, 
G. dorsale, And.) 
a-b. g CER 0.133) & Shiraz, Persia. 
217; C. 137). 
OV. 227; C. 125). Shiraz. 
rang 217; C. 130). Bushire, Persia. Dr. Leith [P.}. 
B. No vertebral stripe. (Z. ladacensis, And.) 
(V. 248; C.?). Egypt. Sir J. Wilkinson 
t Hoe (V. 262 ; C. 140). Bem ne eats Upper M. Lf Blasko Ea 
c. (V. 257; C. 154). alek Nscenws, Upper Dr. cn ‘Anderson and 
mes Egypt. = Prof. W. M. Flin- 
ders Petrie Py 
d. Hgr. (V. 252; ue 139). Midian, N. Arabia. Major ie) 
é. xg . 229; C. ?). Near Aden. oe Yerb 
F-h. Ye. (V. 296, 220, 226; Muscat. T. Blonto, 
o ra CV. 250, 334 235, M Fe Jayakar 
: 19-3 ‘ : ’ uscat. A.8.G. Ja ; iS 
"F340. ?, 125, 138, ?), P. Eat 
(v 233, 236, 230 ; C.?, ?, 
atu hgr. (V. 235; 
r. 2 (V.225; ©.124), Dead Sea. Canon Tristram [0:} 
a-t. 9 (V. 223,244; C. Ai Dara, W. Slope of M. C. Eylandt [C.}. 
113, ?). Copet Daga, ’ 
u. ¢ (V.218; C. 126). Basho. Dr. Leith [P.}. 
v. d (V. 214; C. 127). get of Regan, S.E. W. T. Blanford, Esq. 
Yg. (V. 215; C. 135. Sirens Baluchistan. T’. Blanford, Esq. 
re 246,232; C. Western Rhugti Hills, wi eyes ios. 
45, 133). N. of Shahpoor. 
z. Hgr. (V,. 243; C. 135). N.W. India. T. O. " Jerdon, Esq. 
iy 
a-B. 9 (V. 244; ©.131) Gilgit. col Biddulph [P.}. 
& yg. (V. 225; C. 129). 
17. Zamenis ventrimaculatus. 
— Gray, Ill. Ind: Zool, ii. pl. xxx. fig. 1 
——chesnei, Martin, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1888, p. 81. 
inter (nm Sl ), Blyth, Journ. vy Soe. Beng. xxiii. 
P- 
Zamenis ventrimaculatus, var. A, Giinth. Cat. p. 105 (1858). 
