60 COLUBRIDiE. 



times nearly smooth in the young), outer rows smooth. Ventrals 

 distinctly angulate laterally, 193-210 ; anal divided, rarely entire ; 

 suboaudals 70-96. Greyish olive or pale brown above, with darker 

 spots or cross bars, or with a pair of dark stripes running along each 

 side of the back ; a dark streak from the eye to the angle of the 

 mouth ; lower parts yellowish clouded with olive-grey, or olive-grey 

 to blackish, the lateral ventral keels always lighter. Some speci- 

 mens entirely black, with the exception of the lips and throat, 

 which are yellowish. 



Total length 1030 millim. ; tail 240. 



Japan, Corea. 



A. Olive or brown above, with more or less distinct spots or stripes. 



a. (S (V. 208 ; A. 2 ; 0. Japan. Leyden Museum. 



88). 

 b-d. c? (V. 204, 204; A. Yokohama. H.M.S. ' Challenger.' 



2, 2 ; 0. 81, 84) & ? 



(.V. 200; A. 2; 0. 70). 

 e-f. Yg. (V. 209, 200 ; A. Nikko. 0. Maries, Esq. [C.]. 



2, 1 ; 0. 80, 87). 

 g. Yg. (V. 195 ; A. 2 ; C. Myanoshita,Japan. J. H. Leech, Esq. [P.]. 



80). 

 h. HgT. (V. 202 ; A. 2 ; Prov. Satsuma, J. H. Leech, Esq. [P.]. 



C. 80). Japan. 



i. S (V. 199 ; A. 2 ; 0. Gensan, Corea. J. H. Leech, Esq. [P.]. 



90). 



B. TJniform black above and below, or blackish above with more or 



less distinct black stripes. 



h, I. 2 (V. 200, 202 ; A. Japan. Leyden Bfuseum. 



1, 2 ; 0. 84, 83). 

 m. S (V. 203; A. 2 ; C. Japan Zoological Society. 



85). 

 n. Yg. (V. 203 ; A. 2 ; Japan. Sir R. Owen [P.l. 



0. 83). 

 o-p. Yg. (V. 203, 205 ; Kumamoto,Japan. J. H. Leech, Esq. [V.\ 



A. 2, 2 ; C. 83, 89). 



4- 35. Coluber melanurus. 



Coluber melanurus, Schleg. Phys. Serp. ii. p. 141, pi. v. figs. 11 & 12 



(1837), and Abbild. pi. v. (1837) ; Bouleng. Faun. Ind., Rept. 



p. 334 (1890). 

 Compsosoma melanurum, Dwm. 8^ Bibr. vii. p. 299 (1854) ; Giinth. 



Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 244 (1864) ; Stoliczka, Journ. As. 8oc. Bang. 



xxxix. 1870, p. 188 ; Theoh. Cat. B^pt. Brit. Ind. p. 165 (1876). 

 Spilotes melanurus, Oiinth. Cat. p. 97 (1858). 

 Elaphis melanurus, Jan, Icon. 04n. 21, pi. iv. fig. 1, and pi. v. fig. 1 



(1867). 



Eostral broader than deep, just visible from above ; internasals 

 as long as broad, or broader, shorter than the praefrontals ; frontal 

 once and one sixth to once and one third as long as broad, as long 



