TIPEKA. 475 



2. Vipera renardi. 



Pelias renardi, Christoph, Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. xxxiv. 1861, ii. 



p. 599. 

 Vipera berus, part., Strauch, Syn. Vip. p. 32 (1869), and 8chl. Russ. 



H. p. 206 (1873). 



berus, Boettg. Ber. Senck. 6es. 1892, p. 149. 



renardi, Bouleng. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1893, pp. 598 & 757, pi. Ixiv. ; 



Mihely, Zool. Anz. 1894, p. 69. 



■ Snout pointed, flat above, -with raised canthus ; eye as in V. berits. 

 Kostral as deep as broad or a little deeper than broad, just visible 

 from above and in contact with a single apical shield ; distinct 

 frontal and (usually) parietal shields, the former once and two thirda 

 to once and one third as long as broad, as long as or longer than its 

 distance from the end of the snout, usually longer than the 

 paiietals ; supraocular weU developed, separated from the frontal 

 by one to three shields ; 9 to 11 scales round the eye, the upper 

 prseocular usually in contact with the nasal ; a single series of scales 

 between the eye and the labials, or two series except under the 

 centre of the eye, which is separated from the fourth labial by a 

 single scale ; nostril pierced in the lower half of a single nasal, 

 which is separated from the rostral by a naso- rostral ; temporal 

 scales smooth or upper faintly keeled ; 8 or 9 upper labials ; 4 

 (rarely 5) lower labials in contact with the chin-shields. Scales 

 in 21 rows (19 in specimen n), strongly keeled on the back, smooth 

 or feebly keeled on the outer row. Ventrals 130-148 in c? , ISO- 

 ISO in $ ; anal entire ; subcaudals 31-37 in cJ , 24-30 in 5 . 

 Coloration much as in F. ursinii, and likewise the same in both 

 sexes, but rostral and labials spotted, speckled, or margined with 

 black or brown. 



Total length : ^ 620 millim. ; tail 75. $ 395 ; 40. 



Southern Eussia and Central Asia. 



a. 2 (V. 142 ; C. 24). Sarepta. Dr. F. Miiller [P.]. 



b-c. cJ (V. 145, 146 ; Uralsk. M. Borodine [0.]. 

 0. 37, 85). 



d. cJ (V. 142 ; C. 36). Saratov. St. Petersburg Mus. 



[E.]. 



e. cJ (V. 144 ; 0. 35). L.Ourkatsch, Kirghiz M. Nazarow [E.]. 



Steppes. 



/. <J (V. 148 ; 0. 36). K. Emba, Kirghiz St. Petersbiu-g Mus. 



Steppes. [E.]. 



g. Yg. cJ (V. 145 ; 0. Kirghiz Steppes. St. Petersburg Mus, 



35). [E.]. 



h. cJ (V. 142 ; 0. 35). Smeinogorsk, Gov. St. Petersburg Mua. 



Tomsk. [E.]. 



i-l,m,. ^ (Y. 137,136; Chinas, Turkestan. St. Petersburg Mus, 



, 0. 86, 32), S (V. [E.]. 

 137; C. 80), & vg. 

 (J (V. 130; 0.36). 



n. Yg. 5 (V. 180; C. ■ Kiinges, R. Hi, E. St. Petersburg Mus, 



30). ■ Turkestan. [E.]. 



