270 THE EEPTILES OF EGYPT. 
work. The type still exists in the Stockholm- Museum. The bottle in which it is 
preserved has the original Linnean printed label Coluber situla attached to it, and in 
Quensel's MS. catalogue of the Museum the specimen is stated to be the type of the 
species, to have come from Egypt, and to have been one of the specimens from the 
Drottningholm Museum. Linnaeus, in his description, records that the specimen had 
235 ventrals and 48 caudals. Mr. P. J. Smit counted the shields of the type at my 
request, and in his notes they are put down as ventrals 235, caudals 48 ; he mentions 
that the anal is divided. It would thus appear to be what it claims to be, viz. the type 
of C. situla. It has 27 smooth scales across the body from side to side, is 870 millim. 
long, but the tail is imperfect. 
I have to record my obligations to Prof. Smitt for having permitted me to figure in 
this work the type specimen of this Linnean species that has lain now nearly a century in 
spirit, practically unknown to herpetologists. When I received the drawings of C. situla, 
Linn., I showed them to Mr. Boulenger, who at once recognized them as representing 
Coluber leopardinus. After a careful comparison of the drawings with specimens 
of that species, I have fully satisfied myself of the identity of the two. From 
Plate XXXVII. A. fig. 2 it will be seen that Hasselquist's specimen belongs to the 
striped variety, trilineata. Linnseus says, " griseus vitta longitudinali utrirjque linea 
nigra marginata." 1 
1 In his systematic enumeration of, the Coronellidw in the Milan Museum, Jan * has mentioned a specimen 
of Coronella austriaca said to have come from Cairo, which he regarded as a variety and named cegyptiaca. 
Strauch t, in his account of the snakes of Russia, repeated Jan's statement that C. austriaca occurred in 
Egypt, but adduced no additional evidence in support of this improbability. It is noteworthy, however, 
that no allusion was made by Jan to the variety cegyptiaca in the Icon. Gen. Oph. 
* Arch. Zool. Anat. e Eisiol. ii. 1863, fasc. ii. p. 233 ; Elenco Sist. 1863, p. 48. 
t Mem. Ac. St. Petersb. (vii.) xxi. no. 4, 1873, p. 43. 
