60. 



COLTTBEE. 



45 



continued from the eye to the angle of the mouth ; belly yellowish, 

 usually dotted or spotted with blackish. 



Total length 900 millim. ; tail 170. 



Southern Eussia, Transcaucasia, and Temperate Asia and Japan. 



u. 2 (Sc. 25 ; V. 193 

 C. 50). 



b. Yg. (Sc. 27 ; V. 180 

 C. 66). 



c. 2 (Sc. 25 ; V. 198 

 C. 60). 



d. 2 (So. 25; V. 198 

 C. 58). 



e. ? (Sc. 25; V. 203 

 C. 61). 



/, ff. c? (Sc. 27 ; V. 198 



0. 75)' & 2 (Sc. 25 ; V. 



206 ; C. 60). 

 h. c? (Sc. 23 ; V. 179 



C. 60). 

 i. ? (Sc. 25; V. 200 



C. 64). 

 Jc-l Hgr. (Sc. 27, 25 ; V, 



196, 187 ; C. 69, 64). 

 m-n, o-p. d (So. 25, 27 



V. 188,186; 0.69,71) 



& yg. (Sc. 25, 25 ; V, 



198, 198 ; 0. 65, ?). 

 }. Yg. (Sc. 25 ; V. 209 



0.64). 

 r-s. 2 (Sc. 27; V. 202 



C. 68) & yg. (Sc. 23 



V. 187 ; 0. 76). 

 t. Yg. (Sc. 25; V. 204 



0. 80). 

 u. d (Sc. 27 ; V. 200 



0. 79). 

 V. c? (Sc. 25 ; V. 180 



C. 68). 



Caucasus. 

 Mangyschlak. 

 "Wernoje. 

 Semipolatinsk. 



R. Hi. 



R. Emba. 



Ussuri E. 

 Pekin. 



"Western 

 Pekin. 

 Chefoo. 



hills of 



St. Petersburg Mus. 



[E.]. 

 St. Petersburg Mus. 



[E.]. 

 St. Petersburg Mus. 



[E.]. 

 Rev. H. Lafasdell 



[0.]. 

 St. Petersburg Mus. 



[E.]. 



Warsaw Mus. [E.]. 



R." Swinboe, Esq. 



[C.]. 

 S. W. Bushell, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 R. Swinboe, Esq. 



[0.]. 



Chen Lang Kuan, 



Gan King. 

 Mountains north of 



Kiu Kiang. 



Hoi-How, Bainan. 



China. 



China. 



Mr. John Brock 



[P.]. 

 A. E. Pratt, Esq. 



[C.]. 



J. Neumann, Esq. 



[R]. 

 Sir E. Belcher [P.]. 



J. Brenchley, Esq. 



[P.]. 



18. Coluber guatuorlineatus. 



Coluber quatuorlineatus, Lae^p. Serp. pp. 82, 163, pi. vii. fig. 1 (1789) ; 



Bonnat. Encycl. Meth., Ophiol. p. 44, pi. xxxix. fig. 1 (1700). 



nauii, Donnd. Zool. Beitr. iii. p. 206 (1798). 



quadristriatus, Donnd. L c. p. 207. 



quaterradiatus, Gmel. Der Naturf. xxviii. 1799, p. 158, pi. iii. 



fig. 1 ; Desmarest, Fmme Franq., Rept. pi. xiv. (1826) ; Schhg. 



Phys. Serp. ii. p. 159, pi. vi. figs. 9 & 10 (1837) ; Werner, Verk. 



zool.-bot. Oes. Wien, xH. 1891, p. 759. 

 elaphis, Shaw, Zool. iii. p. 450 (1802); Metaxa, Mon. Serp. 



Rom. p. 37 (1823) ; Frivaldsky,Mon. Serp. Hung. p. 44 (1823). 

 quadrilineatus, Dmul. Rept. vi. p. 266 (1803) ; Buuleng. Ann. 8f 



Mag. N. H. (6) vii. 1891, p. 280. 

 sauromates. Pall. Zoogr. Ross.- As. iii. p. 42 (1811) ; Eiehto. 



Zool. Spec. iii. p. 174 (1831) ; Nordin. in Demidoff, Voy. Riiss. 



Mir. iii. p. 345, Rept. pi. iii. (1840). 



