54. zAMENis. 397 



b. $ (Sc. 19; V. 206; C. 100). Zargoom, Persia. 



c. a (Sc. 19; V. 194; C. 101). ? Chatham Museum. 



C. Var. AsiANTJS, Boettg. — Brown or olive above, each scale with a 

 longitudinal light streak, and usually with large Hack spots 

 relieved by yellowish shafts ; belly red, spotted or dotted with 

 black. Melanotic specimens, entirely black with the chin 

 and throat yellow, variegated with red, are frequent. 

 Asia Minor, Ehodes, Cyprus, Syria. 



.(. S (Sc. 19; V.202; Budrum, Ruins of H.M.S. ' Supply.' 



C. 105). Halicarnassus. 



b~d, e-h, i-k. S (Sc. 17, 19, Cyprus. Lord Lilf ord [P.]. 



19, 19, 19 ; V. 203, 205, 



204, 201, 204 : C. 131, 



112, 113, 111,' ?) & $ 



(Sc. 19, 19, 19, 19 ; V. 



211, 206, 207, 205; 0. 



105, 103, 113, ?). 

 I. S (So. 19 ; V. 202 ; C. ?). Cyprus. Dr. C. E. Cnllen [P.]. • 



TO. ? (So. 19 ; V. 212 ; Palestine. Canon Tristram [0.1. 



0. 107). 

 n, 0-^. ? (Sc. 19 ; V. 205 ; Merom. Canon Tristram [C.]. 



C. 105) & yg. (So. 19, 



19;V.214,209;C. 125, 



115). 

 q, r. (S (Sc. 19, 19 ; V. Galilee. Canon Tristram [C.]. 



204, 209 ; C. 119, 122). 



15. Zamenis dahlii. 



Savigny, Descr. Egypte, Rept., Suppl. p. iv. fig. 4 (1829). 



Tyria dahlii, Fitzing. N. Class. Rept. p. 60 (1826) ; Bonap. Icon. 



Faun. Ital. (1837). 

 najadum, Fichw. Zool. Spec. iii. p. 174 (1831), and Faun. Casp.- 



Cauc. p. 115, pi. xxvii. (1842). 



ocellata, Fichw. Zool. Spec. iii. p. 174. 



Coluber ocellata, M&nitr. Cat. Rais. p. 70 (1832). 



Psammophis dahlii, Schleg. Rhys. Serp. ii. p. 215, pi. viii. figs. 12 & 



13 (1837). 

 Zamenis dahlii, Bum. ^ Bibr. vii. p. 692 (1854) ; Ounth. Cat. p. 107 



(1858) ; Strauch, Schl. Russ. R. p. 123 (1873) ; Schreib. Serp. 



Fur. p. 264 (1875) ; Jan, Icon. G6n. 49, pi. vi. fig. 3 (1876) ; 



Boettg. Ber. Senck. Ges. 1879-80, p. 153; Lortet, Arch. Mus. 



Lyon, iii. 1883, p. 185, pi. xix. fig. 4. 



Body very slender ; head narrow; snout moderately prominent, 

 obtuse. Kostral a little broader than deep, just visible from above ; 

 internasals as long • as or a little shorter than the prsefrontals ; 

 frontal not or but little broader than the supraocular, once and two 

 thirds or once and three fourths as long as broad, as long as or longer 

 than its distance from the end of the snout, shorter than the parietals ; 

 loreal longer than deep ; one prasocular, usually in contact with the 

 frontal, with a subocular below it ; two postoculars ; temporals 2+2 

 or 2 + 3 (rarely 1 + 2) ; eight or nine upper labials, fourth and fifth or 

 fifth and sixth entering the eye ; four or five lower labials in contact 



