48 COLUBRID, 
IT. Loreal separated from the eye by the prwocular, 
A. Scales in 19 rows; anal divided. 
Two labials entering the eye ........ 5. variegatus, p. 51. 
Three labials entering the eye ...... 6. semiannulatus, p. 51 
B. Scales in 19 or 21 rows; anal entire. 
7. guentheri, p. 52. 
C. Scales in 21 or 23 rows; anal divided. yuk bee 
8. obtusus, p. 52. 
1. Tarbophis savignyi. 
Savi Deser. te t., Suppl. pl. iv. fig. 2 (1829). 
gah sauciiis ty a COMME oe Fok, bee 1864, 489, 
Tarbophis vivax, Boettg. Ber. Senck. Ges. 1878-79, p. 67, and 1879-80, 
p. 33; Peracca, Boll. Mus. Tor, ix. 1894, no. 167, p. 15. 
Thy ise f. syriaca, part., Boetty. Ber. Senck. Ges. 1879-80, — 
p- ° 
Very closely allied to 7. fallax, but snout shorter and broader ; 
internasals broader than long; frontal not more than once and one 
third as long as broad; nasal entire or semidivided ; loreal once 
and a half to twice and a half as long as deep, usually entering 
the eye; posterior chin-shields narrowly separated from each other 
in front, Scales in 19 rows. Ventrals 174-190; anal divided; 
subcaudals 45-57. Yellowish above, with a dorsal series of 23 to 
28 dark brown or black spots on the body, these spots sometimes 
confluent with a lateral series of spots or vertical bars which usually 
alternate with the dorsal series; the first blotch largest, covering 
the nape and descending to the sides of the neck, which it may 
entirely encircle; head greyish above, dotted with black and with a 
few small black spots; labials dark-edged ; belly black, or much 
spotted or marbled with dark brown or black, 
Total length 465 millim. ; tail 65. 
Southern Syria, Lower Egypt. 
a. 9 (V.174; C. 51). Jerusalem. Canon Tristram to - 
b-c. g (V. 187; C.?)& Mt. Tabor. Canon Tristram [C.}, 
yg. (V.178; ©. 55). , 
d. Ye. (V. 190; C. 53). Lebanon, Canon Tristram [C.]. 
2. Tarbophis fallax. 
Coluber vivax, Fitzing. N. Class. Rept. p. 57 (1826).—Nomen Be 
nudum. 
Tarbophis fallax, Fveischm. Dalm. nov. Serp. Gen. p. 18, pl. i. (1831). 
Dipsas fallax, Schleg. Phys. Serp. ii. p. 295, pl. xi, figs. 835 & 36 (1837), 
Ailnrophis vivax, Bonap. Icon. Faun, Ital., Anf. (1837). 
Tarbophis vivax, Dum. § Bibr. vii. p. 913 (1854); Schreib, Herp. Eur. 
p. 218, fig. (1875); Boettg. Zeitschr, Ges. Naturw. xlix, 1877, 
p. 287 ; Bedriaga, Bull. Soc, Nat. Mose, 1881, p. 813; Boettg. Sitzb. 
Ak, Berl. 1888, p. 178 ; Tomasini, Wiss. Mitth. aus Bosn. u. Herzeg. 
ii. p. 687 (1894). 
