52 coltjbeidjE. 



brown above, with small black spots or a dorsal series of black cross 

 bars ; some adult specimens almost uniform olive-brown above ; a 

 black streak across tbe end of the snout, passing through the 

 nostrils, a curved one from eye to eye, another from the eye to the 

 angle of the mouth, a A-shaped one on the back of the head, with 

 the point on the frontal, and a black spot or vertical streak below 

 the eye ; lower parts whitish, checkered with black. Young («) 

 vermilion above, with small black spots edged with yellowish white. 



Total length 830 millim. ; tail 150. 



Japan ; Corea. 



a, h. S (V. 219 ; 0. 67) Japan. Levden Museum. 



fryg. (V. 217;O.60). 



e. S (V. 215 ; C. 67). Yokohama. H.M.S. ' Challenger.' 



cZ. Yg. (V. 224; C. 63). Nikko. H.M.S. ' Challenger.' 



e. Yg. (V. 206 ; C. 68). Haruna Hills, Japan, Lord Dormer [P.]. 

 2500 ft. 



25. Coluber longissimus. 



Natrix longissima, Laur. Syn. Rept. p. 74 (1768). 



Coluber flavesoens, Omel. S. N. i. p. 1115 (1788) ; Baud. Rept. vi. 



p. 272 (1803) ; FrivaUsky, Uon. Serp. Hung. p. 40 (1823) ; Lenz, 



Schlangenk. p. 509, pi. vi. (1832) ; Bonap. Icon. Faun. Ital. (] 833) ; 



De Betta, Erp. Veron., Mem. Ace. Verona, xxxv. 1857, p. 197. 

 sesculapii (non L.), Lacep. Serp. pp. 98, 165, pi. vii. fig. 2 



(1789) ; Bonnat. Encycl. Meth., Ophiol. p. 43, pi. xxxix. fig. 2 



(1790) ; Host, in Jacq. Coll. Botan. iv. p. 356, pi. xxvii. (1790) ; 



Wolf, in Sturm, DeutscJil. Faun. iii. Heft 2 (1799) ; Daud. Rept. 



vii. p. 30 (1803) ; Metaxa, Mon. Serp. Rom. p. 37 (1823) ; Fri- 



valdsky, I. c. p. 42 ; DesmareU, FaxmeFranq., Rept. pi. xv. (1826) ; 



Millet, Faune de Maine-et-Lcrire, p. 632, pi. iv. (1828) ; Schleg. 



Rhys. Serp. ii. p. 130, pi. v. figs. 1 & 2 (1837) ; Gunth. Cat. p. 88 



(1858); Strauch, Schl. Russ. R. p. 57 (1873); Boettg. Ber. 



Senckenh. Ges. 1889, p. 271 ; M6hely, Beitr. Mon. Eronstadt, 



Herp. p. 29 (1892) ; Sarauw, Nat. og Mennesk. Copenh. xi. 1894, 



p. 258 ; Durigen, DeutscM. Amph. u. Rept. p. 308, pi. viii. tiff. 1 



(1894). 

 longissimus, Bonnat. I. c. p. 59 ; Blanf. Zool. E. Pers. p. 420 



(1876). 



asolepiadeus, Bonnd. Zool. Beytr. iii. p. 205 (1798). 



sellmanni, Bonnd. I. c. p. 207. 



pannonicus, Bonnd. I. c. p. 208. 



leprosus, Bonnd. I. c. 



romanus, Suckow, Anfanqsgr. d. Naturg. iii. p. 198 (1798). 



scopolii, Merr. Tent. p. 104 (1820). 



• fugax, Eichw. Zool. Spec. iii. p. 174 (1831). 



Zamenia sesculapii, Fitzing. Beitr. Landesk. Oesterr. i. p. 326 (1832) ; 



Eichw. Faun. Casp.-Cauc. p. 150 (1841). 

 Callopeltis flavescens, Bonap. Mem. Ace. Torin. (2) ii. 1839, p. 432. 

 Coluber sauromates,juv., iVor(?m. in Bemidoff. Voy. Russ. Mir. iii. 



p. 346, Rept. pi. vi. fig. 2 (1840). 

 Elaphis iEsculapii, Bum. ^ Bibr. vii. p. 278 (1854) ; Jan, Icon. Gen. 



24, pi. i. fig. 4 (1867) ; Viaud-Grandm. Et. Serp. VendSe, p. 10 

 (1868) ; Ratio, Vert. Suisse, iii. p. 136 (1872) ; Be Betta, Faun. 



Ital, Rett. Anf. p. 43 (1874). 



