292 THE EEPTILBS OP EGYPT. 
and forwardly convex head of the latter. The way the colour-markings are represented 
on fig. 6, pi. vii., is not that of C. monspessulana, but that of C. moilensis. The large 
spot between the parietals and the angles of the mouth, so characteristic of the latter 
species and never present in the former, is portrayed, and the spot likewise that occurs 
a little way behind it. In C. moilensis there is always more or less black at the upper 
and lower borders of the orbit — absent in C. monspessulana, but present in the drawing. 
The disposition of the spots also on the body is that of C. moilensis, and if the drawing 
I have given in the background of Plate XL., taken from an Egyptian specimen, be 
compared with the figure in the great French work, the practical identity of the two 
becomes apparent. Moreover, the somewhat short and broad scales as depicted are 
rather those of C. moilensis than of C. monspessulana. 
CffiLOPELTis moilensis, Reuss. (Plate XL.) 
La Couleuvre maillee, Is. Geoffroy St.-Hilaire, Descr. de l'Egypte, Hist. Nat. i. 1827, pi. vii. 
fig. 6, not text. 
Coluber moilensis, Reuss, Mus. Senck. i. 1834, p. 142, pi. vii. figs. 1 a-b. 
Ccelopeltis lacertina, var., Eiippell, Mus. Senck. iii. 1845, p. 310. 
Coluber insiynitus, part., Dum. & Bibr. vii. 1854, p. 1130. 
Ccelopeltis producta, Gerv. Mem. Ac. Montp. iii. 1857, p. 512, pi. v. fig. 5; Strauch, Mem. 
Ac. St. Petersb. (vii.) iv. no. 7, 1862, p. 68; Jan. Icon. Gen. livr. 34, Mars 1870, pi. ii. fig. 2; 
Blgr. Trans. Zool. Soe. xiii. 1891, p. 151; Anderson, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 20; Konig, 
Verh. (S.B.) nat. Ver. Bonn, 1892, p. 24; Olivier, Mem. Soc. Zool. France, vii. 1894, 
p. 122 ; Werner, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xliv. 1894, p. 85. 
Rhagerhis (Ccelopeltis) producta, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ak. 1862, p. 275, fig. 3. 
Rhagerhis producta, Gasco, Viagg. in Egitto, pt. ii. 1876, p. 120; P. Muller, Verh. naturf. Ges. 
Basel, vi. 1878, p. 610; Peters, Mon. Berl. Ak. 1880, p. 308; Murray, Ann. N. H. (5) xiv. 
1884, p. 104; Sclater, Snakes Ind. Mus. 1891, p. 26. 
Ccelopeltis lacertina, var. moilensis, F. Muller, Verh. naturf. Ges. Basel, vii. 1882, p. 150. 
Ccelopeltis moilensis, Anderson, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1895, p. 656 ; Herpet. Arabia & Egypt, 1896, 
pp. 52 & 108 ; Blgr. Cat. Snakes B. M. iii. 1896, p. 143. 
2 ? . Lower Egypt. 
1 J 1 . Abu Roash. Mrs. Anderson. 
2 ? . Suakin. Colonel Sir Charles Holled Smith, K.C.M.G., C.B. 
1 ? . Durrur. 
Head moderately long, convex above from before backwards ; canthus rostralis 
defined, continuous more or less with outwardly projecting supraocular ; rostral as 
broad as high, largely visible from above ; internasals nearly as large as the prsefrontals, 
and the suture nearly as long as that of the prsefrontals ; frontal long and narrow, 
