54. zAMEiris. 399 



olive, uniform or with dark cross bands, which, are very close 

 together ; a bright pink or red vertebral stripe sometimes present ; 

 whitish below, the end of each ventral with an olive or blackish 

 spot. 



Total length 1150 millim. ; tail 330. 



Egypt, Arabia, Transcaspia, Syria, Persia, Baluchistan, Western 

 Himalayas. 



A. A pink or red vertebral stripe. (Z. rhodorJiacMs, Jan, 

 G. dor sale, And.) 



a-b. c7 (V.228; 0. 133) & Shiraz, Persia... 

 yg.(V.217; 0.137). 



c. 2 (V. 227; 0.125). Shiraz. 



d. (J (V. 217 ; 0. 130). Bushire, Persia. Dr. Leith [P.]. 



B. No vertebral stripe. (Z. ladacensis, And.) 



a. $ (V. 248 ; 0. ?). Egypt. Sir J. Wilkinson [P.]. 



b. Hgr. (V. 262 ; 0. 140j. Beni Hassan, Upper M. W.Blackden,Es^. 



Egypt. [P.]. 



c. Hgr. (V. 267 ; 0.154). Tel-el- Amarna, Upper Dr. J. Anderson and 



Egypt. Prof. W. M. Flin- 



Qprs r^stnfi r r I 



d. Hgr. (V. 252 ; 0. 189). Midian, N. Arabia. Major Burton [P.]. 



e. Yg..(V. 229 ; 0. ?). Near Aden. Col. Yerbury [P.! 

 f-h. Yg. (V. 226, 220, 226; Muscat W. T. Blanford, Esq. 



0.128,137,136). [P.]. 



i-rP. ?■ c? ( V. 239, 234, 235, Muscat. A. S.G. Jayakar,Esq. 



234 ;0.?, 126, 138,?),? [P]. 



(V. 233, 286, 230 ;0.?,?, 



133), & hgr. (V. 235; 



0. 140). 

 r. ? (V. 225 ; 0. 124). Dead Sea. Oanon Tristram [C.l. 



s-t. 2 (V. 223, 244 ; 0. Ai Dara, W. Slope of M. 0. Eylandt [0.]. 



113, ?). Oopet Daga, Trans- 



caspia. 

 u. c? (V. 218 ; C. 126). Bushire. Dr. Leith [P.]. 



V. cJ (V.214; 0.127). South of Began, S.E. W. T. Blanford, Esq. 



Persia. [OJ. 



w. Yg. (V. 215 ; 0. 185. Kalagan, Baluchistan. W. T. Blanford, Esq . 



[0.]. 



w:t.: 



:i._j,. 5 (V. 246,282; 0. Western RhugtiHills, W! T. Blanford, Esq. 



145, 133). N. of Shahpoor. [P.]. 



K. Hgr. (V. 243; 0.135). N.W.India. T. 0. Jerdon, Esq. 



[P.], 

 a-/3. 2 (V. 244 ; 0. 181) Gilgit. Ool. Biddulph [P.]. 



& yg. (V. 226 ; 0. 129). 



17. Zamenis ventrimaculatus. 



Ooluber ventromaculatus, Gray, III. Ind. Zool. ii. pi, Ixxx. fig 1 



(1884). 



chesnei, Martin, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1888, p. 81. 



diadenia (non ScUeg.), Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xxiii 



1854, p. 291. 

 Zamenis ventrimaculatus, var. A, Giinth. Cat. p. 105 (1868). 



