60. COLUBER. 55 



g. Yg. _(Sc. 23; V. 229; Nikko. Mr. WMtely [C.]. 



0. 103). 



h-i. Yg. (Sc. 25, 23 ; V. Myanoshita. J. H. Leech, Esq. 



233,226; 0.100,97). [P.]. 



k. S (Sc. 25 ; V. 234 ; Onsen Mt., Shimabara. Mr. Plolst [C.]. 



0.99). 



27. Coluber phyllopMs. 



ElapHs sauromates (non Pall), Oilnth. Cat. p. 93 (1858). 



sauromates, part., Giinth. Sept. Brit. Ind. p. 241, pi. xxi. 



fig. E (1864). 

 PhyllopMs carinata, Ounth. I. c. p. 295, pi. xxi. fig. B, and Ann. §• 



Mag. N. H. (6) i. 1888, p. 170. 

 Elaphis, sp., Strauch, Schl. Russ. R. p. 99 (1873) ; Bedriaga, Bull. 



Soc. Nat. Mosc. Ivi. 1882, p. 309. 

 Coluber pbyllophis, Bouleng. Ann. ^ Mag. N. H. (6) vii. 1891, 



p. 280. 



Snout projecting ; eye rather large. Eostral much broader than 

 deep, visible from above ; nasal sometimes entire or semi-divided ; 

 internasals as long as broad, or a little longer, at least as long as 

 the prsefrontals ; frontal once and one third to once and two thirds 

 as long as broad, as long as its distance from the rostral or the end 

 of the snout, a little shorter than the parietals ; loreal longer than 

 deep ; one praeocalar, with a subooular below it ; two postoculars ; 

 temporals 2+3 or 3 + 3; eight (rarely nine) upper labials, fourth 

 and fifth (or fifth and sixth) entering the eye ; four or five lower 

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

 as long as or a little shorter than the posterior. Scales in 23 rows 

 very strongly keeled, outer row smooth. Ventrals obtusely angu- 

 late laterally, 209-220 ; anal divided (rarely entire) ; suljcaudals 

 80-96. Young pale olive above, with traces of a few black trans- 

 verse bands on the anterior part of the body, and a brown lateral 

 line on the posterior part of the body and along the tail ; labials 

 yellowish, with brown sutures ; belly yellowish, with a series of 

 black dots on each side. The adult of a darker coloration, most of 

 the scales and shields having black borders ; anterior part of back 

 usually with more or less distinct black cross bands ; belly more or 

 less dotted or spotted with black, the posterior ventrals and the 

 subcaudals usually edged with black. 



Total length 1800 millim.; tail 380. 



China. 



a-c, d. (S (V. 213, 215 ; Kiu Kiang. A. E. Pratt, Esq. 



A. 2,1; 0.93,87), ? [0.]. 



(V.215; A. 2; 0.83); 



&yg. (V. 210; A. 1; 



0. 86). 

 e iS (V. 209 ; A. 2 ; 0. 90). Wu-Iee Lake, 25 miles P.W. Bassett-Smith, 



S. ofNingpo. Esq. [P.]. 



/. $ (V. 213 ; A. 2 ; 0. Near Ningpo. 



80). 



