42 COLTJBEID^. 



c. Hgr. (Sc. 27 ; V. 245; Malta. 0. A. Wright, Esq. [P.]. 

 C- 81). ^„ -, 



d. $ (Sc. 27 ; V. 247 ; Zara, Dalmatia. Count M. G. Peracca [P.J. 



e-g. ' S (Sc. 27, 25 ; V. 241, Zara. Dr. F. Werner [E.]. 



238 ; 0. 84, 84) & $ 



(Sc. 27 ; V. 245 ; 0. ?). 

 ^-j. c? (Sc. 25 ; V. 234 ; Zara. Hr. Spada-Novak [0.]. 



0. 83) & ? (Sc. 25 ; 



V. 238 ; C. 68). 



B. Striped form. (C. quadrilineatus. Pall.) 



a. 2 (Sc. 27; V. 247; Trieste. Dr. Kiippell [P.]. 

 0. 77). 



b. Yg. (Sc. 25 ; V. 226 ; Ionian Ids. Dr. Mann [P.]. 

 0. 79). 



c. S (Sc. 25; V. 245; ? 



C. 81). 



14. Colul)er hohenackeri. 



Coluber rubriventris, Dioigubsky, Essay Nat. Hist. Suss. Ump. p. 67 



[Prussian] (1832). 

 tohenaokeri, Strauch, Schl. Suss. S. p. 70 (1873) ; Boettg. 



Ber. Senek. Ges. 1890, p. 294. 



Kostral broader than deep, just visible from above : internasals 

 broader than long, shorter than the praefrontals ; frontal a little 

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

 shorter than the parietals ; loreal a little longer than deep ; one 

 prse- and two postoculars ; temporals 2 + 3; eight upper labials, 

 fourth and fifth entering the ej'e ; fi.ve lower labials in contact with 

 the anterior chin-shields, which are longer than the posterior. 

 Scales smooth or faintly keeled, in 23 (rarely 25) rows. Ventrals 

 201-228, rounded ; anal divided ; subcaudals 60-66. Grey above, 

 with four alternating series of dark spots ; a /\ -shaped black marking 

 on the nape, a black streak from the eye to the angle of the mouth, 

 and a black line below the eye ; belly yellowish or reddish, closely 

 spotted or marbled with blackish grey. 



Total length 650 millim. ; tail 110. 



Transcaucasia and Asia Minor. 



a-h. cJ (V. 211 ; 0. 63) & yg. Amasia, Asia Minor. 

 (V. 221 ; 0. 62). 



15. Coluber mandarinus. 



Coluber mandarinus. Cantor, Zool. Chusan, pi. xii. (1840), and Ann. 

 ^ Mag. N. H. ix. 1842, p. 483 ; Qiinth. Cat. p. 91 (1858), and 

 Sept. Brit. Ind. p. 238, pi. xx. fig. H (1864)*. 



Eostral twice as broad as deep, just visible from above ; inter- 

 nasals shorter than the prefrontals ; frontal a little longer than 



* MoellendorfT's Coluber mandarinus (Joum. N. China Br. As. See. [2] xi. 

 1877, p. 104), " a black water-snake with orange-red marks," from the province 

 of Ohihli, Northern China, must be a different snake. 



