3. VIPERA. 475 
2. Vipera renardi. 
*— Ps soe Christoph, Bull. Soc. Nat. Mose. xxxiv. 1861, ii. 
Vi ‘ ze baie part., Strauch, Syn. Vip. p. 32 (1869), and Schl. Russ. 
. 206 (1878). 
—— berus, Boettg. Ber. Senck. Ges. 1892, p. 149. 
—— renardi, Bouleng. Proc. Zool. Soc, 1893, pp. 598 & 757, pl. Ixiv. ; 
Méhely, Zool. Anz. 1894, p. 69. 
Snout pointed, flat above, with raised canthus ; eye as in V. berus. 
Rostral as deep as broad or a little deeper than broad, just visible 
from above and in contact with a single apical shield; distinct 
frontal and (usually) parietal shields, the former once and two thirds 
to once and one third as long as broad, as long as or longer than its 
distance from the end of the snout, usually longer than the 
parietals ; supraocular well developed, separated from the frontal 
by one to three shields; 9 to 11 scales round the eye, the upper 
preocular usually in contact with the nasal; asingle series of scales 
between the eye and the labials, or two series except under the 
centre of the eye, which is separated from the fourth labial by a 
single scale ; nostril pierced in the lower half of a single nasal, 
which is separated from the rostral by a naso-rostral; temporal 
scales smooth or upper faintly keeled; 8 or 9 upper labials; 4 
(rarely 5) lower labials in contact with the chin-shields. Scales 
in 21 rows (19 in specimen vz), strongly keeled on the back, smooth 
or feebly keeled on the outer row. Ventrals 130-148 in ¢, 130- 
150 in Q ; anal entire; subcaudals 31-37 in ¢,24-30 in 9°. 
Coloration much as in JV. wursinii, and likewise the same in both 
sexes, but rostral and labials spotted, speckled, or margined with 
black or brown. 
Total length: ¢g 620 millim.; tail 75. 9 395; 40. 
Southern Russia and Central Asia. 
a. 2 (V. 142; C. 24).  Sarepta. Dr. F. Miiller [P.]. 
. & (VY. 145, 146; Uralsk. | M. Borodine [C.]. 
C, 37, 35). 
d. & (V. 142; C. 36). Saratov. St. Petersburg Mus. 
E.]. 
e. d (V. 144; C.35). L.Ourkatsch, Kirghiz M. Nazarow [E.]. 
Steppes. 
J. 3 (V. 148; C. 386). RR. Emba, Kirghiz St. Petersburg Mus. 
Steppes. E. ]. 
gy. ae 3 (V.145; C. Kirghiz Steppes. St. Petersburg Mus. 
h. 3 (V. 142; C. 35). Smeinogorsk, Gov. ge Po tcosburg Mus. 
Tomsk. E.]}. 
ss m. 3 (V. 187,136; Chinas, Turkestan. St. Petersburg Mus. 
36, 32), 2 (V. [E,]. 
a7. : C. 30), & yg. 
d (V. 130; C. 36). 
n. Yg. 2 (Vv. 180; C. Kunges, R. Ti, E. St. Petersburg Maus. 
30). Turkestan. [E.}. 
