54. ZAMENIS. 401 



p-s. 9 (V. 211 ; C. 108), Siad. Dr. Leith rP.l. 



hgr. (V. 210, 207 ; C. • 



106, 113), & yg. (V. 



200; 0. 95). ° ^ 

 t-u Hgr. (V. 208, 199 ; Sind. F. Day, Esq. [P.]. 



0.110, ?). ■' ^ '- -' 



v-io. $ (V. 200; 0. 113) N.W. India. T. C. Jerdon, E.^q. 



& yg. (V. 190 ; 0. 103). [P.]. ^ 



•r. 2 (V. 206 ; C. 98). Bengal {??). Gen. Hardwicke [P.]. 



(Type.) 



18. Zamenis karelinii. 



Coluber (Tyria) karelinii, Brandt, Bull. Ac. St. Pitersb. iii. 1833, 



p. 243. 

 Clioriatodon brachycephalus, Seoerzow, Voy. Turhent. p. 72 (1873). 

 Zamenis karelinii, Strauch, ScM. JRuss. JR. p. 110, pi. iii. (1873) ; 



Bouleng. Faun. Ind., Rept. p. 326 (1890). 



ventrimaculatus, part., Blanf. Zool. JE. Pers. p. 414 (1876). 



ventrimaculatus, var. karelinii, Boettg. Zool. Jahrb. iii. 1883, 



p. 928. 



Snout more or less pointed, projecting, with sharp eanthus and 

 nearly vertical lores ; rostral as deep as broad, deeply hollowed out 

 beneath, the portion visible from above nearly half as long as its 

 distance from the frontal ; internasals as long as the praefrontals ; 

 frontal about once and a half as long as broad, as long as its distance 

 from the end of the snout, a little shorter than the parietals ; 

 loreal as deep as long or a little deeper than long ; one praeocular, 

 in contact with the frontal ; a small subocular below the pras- 

 ocular ; two postoculars, with a larger subocular below them ; rarely 

 a third subocular completely separates the eye from the labials ; 

 temporals 2+3; nine upper labials, fifth normally entering the 

 eye ; four or five lower labials in contact with the anterior chin- 

 shields ; posterior chin-shields longer than the anterior, but 

 extremely narrow and separated from each other by two or three 

 series of scales. Scales perfectly smooth, in 19 rows. Ventrals 

 angulate laterally, 193-212; anal divided; subcaudals 85-110. 

 Yellowish or pale grey above, with a dorsal series of transverse 

 black spots or cross bands, between each pair of which there is, 

 on each side, a black lateral spot extending on the outer border of 

 the ventrals ; a black spot below the eye and another on the temple ; 

 lower parts white or pink. A variety is uniform pale greyish above, 

 with a bright orange vertebral stripe. 



Total length 720 millim. ; tail 195. 



Transcaspia, Turkestan, Persia, Afghanistan, Baluchistan. 



A. Above with dark spots. 



* 



a. 2 (V. 208 ; 0; 96). Krasnowodsk. St. Petersburg Mus. 



h. Yg. (V. 207 ; C. 99). Kila-i-Fath, Seistan. Gsn. Goldsmid [P.]. 

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