142 COLUBRID. 
Coelopeltis monspessulana, Ranzani, Nov. Comm. Acad. Bonon. ii. 
1836, p. 229, pl. x.; Bonap. Icon. Faun. Ital, (1838); Bedriaga, 
Bull. Boe. Nat. Mosc. 1881, p. 311; Boettg. Sitzb. Ak. Berl, 1888, 
P: 177; Camerano, Mon. Od. Ital., peli 5, ie ii, figs, 12 & 
3 (1891); Bedriaga, Instituto, xxxviii. 1890, p. 186. 
Psammophis lacertinus, Schleg. Phys. Serp. ii. p. 203, pl. viii. 
fige. 1-3 (1837). 
Bothriophis distinctus, Hichw. Reise Kasp. M. u. Kauk. i. p. 748 
(1 
837). 
Ccelopeltis lacertina, Hichw. Faun. Casp.-Cauc. p. 154 (1841); 
Guichen. Explor, Sc. Alg., Rept. p. 23 (1850) ; Gtinth. Cat. p. 138 
(1858); Strauch, Erp. Alg. p. 67 (1862), and Schl. Russ. R. 
p- 179 (1873); Schretb. Herp. Eur. p. 221, fig. (1875); Boettg. 
Zeitschr. f. Ges. Naturw. xlix. 1877, p. 287, Ber. Senck. Ges. 1879- 
80, p. 162, and Abh. Senck. Ges. xiii. 1883, p. 103; Tristram, 
Faun. Palest. pl. xiv. (1884) ; Bouleng. Tr. Zool. Soc. xiii. 1891, 
p- 151; Tomasini, Mitth. Bosn. Herz. ii. p. 630 (1894). 
vermiculata, Hichw. 1. c. p. 155, pl. xxix. 
Coluber monspessulana, var. neumayeri, Bonap. 1. ¢. 
monspeliensis, Gerv. Ann. Se, Nat. (3) x. 1848, p. 205. 
Ceelopeltis insignitus, Dum. § Bibr, vii. p. 1180 (1854) ; Jan, Icon. 
Gén. 34, pl.i. figs. 2 & 3 (1870); Boettg. Abh. Senck. Ges. ix. 
1874, p. 161; De Betta, Faun. Iial., Rett. Anf. p. 50 (1874). 
Snout projecting, rounded, with angular raised canthus. Rostral 
as deep as broad, just visible from above; internasals much shorter 
than the prefrontals ; frontal very narrow, twice to twice and a 
half as long as broad, longer than its distance from the end of the 
snout, as long as or a little longer than the parietals ; two loreals ; 
preocular large, forming a suture with the frontal, encroaching on 
the supraoccular; two (rarely three) postoculars; temporals 243 — 
or 4; eight (rarely nine) upper labials, fourth and fifth (or fifth 
and sixth) entering the eye; four or five lower labials in contact 
with the anterior chin-shields, which are as long as or shorter than 
the posterior. Scales longitudinally grooved, in 17 or 19 rows. 
Ventrals 160-189; anal divided; subcaudals 68-102. Olive, 
brown, yellowish, or reddish above, with or without dark, light- 
edged spots; sides.often blackish, with whitish dots; head, in the 
young, with dark symmetrical markings ; yellowish white beneath, 
uniform or spotted, clouded, or streaked with brown or olive. 
Total length 1800 millim. ; tail 350. - 
Borders of the Mediterranean (in the Italian Peninsula only in 
Liguria), eastwards to the Caucasus and Persia. 
4, As ji Ae Ry ‘ Valencia, Spain. Lord Lilford [P.]. 
yg. (Se. 19; V. 177; 
C. 87 
o-d. Her. (Se. 19; Nice. Count Peracca [P.]. 
¥. 181 ; 0. ?) & yg: : 
Se. 19; V. 176; 
.P). 
é. é ¢ “3 17; V. 163; Zara, Dalmatia. Dr. F, Werner [E.]. 
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