60. COIUBER. 41 



B. 35 to 50 dorsal spots from the nape to the hase of the tail ; 



labials without black sutures. (C emoryi, B. & G.) 



a. Yg. (Sc. 27 ; V. 207 ; Kansas. Smithsonian Instit. [P.]. 



C. 67). 



b. 9 (Sc. 31; V. 226; Duval Co., Texas. W. Taylor, Esq. [0.1. 

 0. 65). 



13. Coluber leopardinus. 



Coluber quadrilineatus (non Lac4p.), Pall. Zoogr. Ross.- As. iii. p. 40 

 (1811) ," Giinth. Cat. p. 88 (1858) ; Strauoh, Sclil. Suss. S. p. 73 

 (1873) ; Bedriaga, Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. Ivi. 1882, p. 298. 



leopardinus, Bonap. Icon. Faun. Ital. (1834) ; Schleg. Phi/s. 



Serp. ii. p. 169 (1837). 



cruentatus, Steven, Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. viii. 1835, p. 317. 



Callopeltis leopardinus, Bonap. Mem. Ace. Tor. (2) ii. 1839, p. 432 ; 

 Nordm. inDemidoff, Voy. Muss. MSr. iii. p. 348, Bept. pis. vi., viii., 

 ix. (1840) ; Be Betta, Atti 1st. Ven. (3) xiii. 1868, p. 934, and 

 Faun. Ital., Rett. Anf. p. 38 (1874) ; Tomasini, Wiss. Mitth. aus 

 Bosn. u. Herzeg. ii. p."618 (1894). 



Ablabes quadrilineatua. Bum. ^ Bibr. vii. p. 319 (1854). 



Katrix leopardina. Cope, Proc. Ac. Vhilad. 1862, p. 338. 



CoroneUa quadrilineata, Jan, Arch. Zool. Anat. Phys. ii. 1863, p. 247, 

 and Icon. Gen. 13, pi. v. (1865). 



Callopeltis quadiilineatus, Schreib. Serp. Eur. p. 277 (1875) ; 

 Camerano, Mon. Ofid. Ital., Colubr. p. 52 (1891) ; Mina-Palumbo, 

 Nat. Sicil. xii. 1893, p. 127. 



Eostral broader than deep, just visible from above ; internasals 

 broader than long, shorter than the prsefroiitals ; frontal once and 

 one third to once and a half as long as broad, as long as its distance 

 from the end of the snout, shorter than the parietals ; loreal longer 

 than deep ; one prse- and two postoculars ; temporals 1 or 2 + 2 or 3 ; 

 eight upper labials, fourth and filth entering the eye ; four or five 

 lower labials in contact with the anterior chin-shields, which are 

 longer than the posterior. Scales smooth, in 25 or 27 rows. Ventrals 

 222-260, rounded ; anal divided; subcaudals 68-89. Greyish or pale 

 brown above, with a dorsal series of dark brown or reddish black- 

 edged transverse spots and a lateral alternating series of smaller 

 black spots, or with two dark brown black-edged stripes bordering a 

 yellowish vertebral stripe ; usually a /\-shaped dark marking 

 on the occiput and nape ; a cresoentic black band from eye to eye, 

 an oblique black band from the postoculars to the angle of the mouth, 

 and a black spot below the eye ; lower parts white, checkered with 

 black, or nearly entirely black. 



Total length 900 millim. ; tail 160. 



Southern Italy, Malta, Dalmatia, Balkan Peninsula, Crimea, 

 Asia Minor. 



A. Spotted form. (C. leopardinus, Bp.) 



a, b. S ("Sc. 25 ; V. 232 ; Malta. Miss AttersoU [P.]. 



C. 85) & yg. (Sc. 27; 

 V. 241 ; 0. 79). 



