142 COLUBEID^. 



Coelopeltis monspeasulana, Ranxani, Nov. Comm. Acad. Sonon. ii. 

 1836, p. 229, pi. X. ; Bonap. Icon. Faun. Jtal. (1838) ; Bedriaga, 

 Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 1881, p. 311 ; Boettg. Sitzb. Ak. Berl. 1888, 

 p. 177 ; Camerano, Man. Ofid. Ital., Coluhr. p. 6, pi. ii. figs. 12 & 

 13 (1891) ; Bedriaga, Instituto, xxxviii. 1890, p. 136. 



Psammophis lacertinus, Schleg. Phys. Serp. ii. p. 203, pi. viii. 

 figs. 1-3 (1837). 



Bothriophis distinctus, Eichw. Reise Kasp. M. u. Kauk. i. p. 748 

 (1837). 



Ccelopeltis laoertina, Eichw. Faun. Casp.-Cauc. p. 154 (1841); 

 QukJien. Explor. Sc. Alg., Sept. p. 23 (1850) ; Gunth. Cat. p. 138 

 (1858) ; Strauch, Erp. Alg. p. 67 (1862), and Schl. Buss. JR. 

 'p. 179 (1873) ; Schreib. Herp. Eur. p. 221, fig. (1876) ; Boettg. 

 Zeitschr. f. Ges. Naturw. xlix. 1877, p. 287, Ber. SencJc. Ges. 1879- 

 80, p. 162, and Abh. Sench. Ges. xiii. 1883, p. 103 ; Tristram, 

 Faun. Palest, pi. xiv. (1884) ; Bouleng. Tr. Zool. iSoc. xiii. 1891, 

 p. 161 ; Tomasini, Mitth. Bosn. Herz. ii. p. 630 (1894). 



vermiculata, Eichw. I. c. p. 156, pi. xxix. 



Coluber monspessulana, Tar. neumayeri, Bonap. I. c. 



Tnonspeliensis, Gerv. Ann. Sc. Nat. (3) x. 1848, p. 205. 



Ccelopeltis insignitus, Dtrni. S/- Bibr. vii. p. 1130 (1854) ; Jan, Icon. 

 Gen. 34, pi. i. figs. 2 & 3 (1870) ; Boettg. Abh. Sench. Ges. ix. 

 1874, p. 161 ; Ee Betta, Faun. Ital., Rett. Anf. p. 60 (1874). 



Snout projecting, rounded, with, angular raised canthus. Eostral 

 as deep as broad, just visible from above ; internasals much shorter 

 than the prsefrontals ; frontal very narrow, twice to twice and a 

 half as long as broad, longer than its distance from the end of the 

 snout, as long as or a little longer than the parietals ; two loreals ; 

 prseooular large, forming a suture with the frontal, encroaching on 

 the supraocular; two (rarely three) postoculars ; temporals 2+3 

 or 4 ; eight (rarely nine) upper labials, fourth and fifth (or fifth 

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

 with the anterior chin-shields, which are as long as or shorter than 

 the posterior. Scales longitudinally grooved, in 17 or 19 rows. 

 Ventrals 160-189 ; anal divided ; subcaudals 68-102. Olive, 

 brown, yellowish, or reddish above, with or without dark, light- 

 edged spots ; sides often blackish, with whitish dots ; head, in the 

 young, with dark symmetrical markings ; yellowish white beneath, 

 uniform or spotted, clouded, or streaked with brown or olive. 



Total length 1800 millim. ; tail 360. 



Borders of the Mediterranean (in the Italian Peninsula only in 

 Liguria) , eastwards to the Caucasus and Persia. 



a, b. 2 (Sc. 19 ; Valencia, Spain. Lord Lilford fP.!. 



V. 184 ; 0. 91) & 



yg.(Sc.l9;V.177 



C. 87). 

 c-d. Hgr. (Sc. 19 



V. 181 ; 0. ?) & yg 



(Sc. 19; V. 176 



C. ?)• 

 e. 2 (Sc. 17 ; V. 163 



0. 76). 



Nice. Count Peracca [P.]. 



Zara, Dalmatia. Dr. F. Werner [B.l. 



