'The Expedition for the survey of the rivers Euphrates and Tigris, carried on by order of the British government, in the years 1835, 1836, and 1837; preceded by geographical and historical notices of the regions situated between the rivers Nile and Indus. In four volumes. With fourteen maps and charts, and embellished with ninety-seven plates, besides numerous wood-cuts. Volume the first.' [‎735] (835/905)

n<> ' v *3 appendix. 735
duly brown! 0 ' marginS 0f the aWOminal ^ are ^ ^
O Z m w 016 AO the Under SUrface of head ' bod y' and tail . Pale yellow.
Caudal plates, 69 pairs in one specimen, and 57 in another.
Length of head and body . . ] foot 11 inches
Length of tail .... 4%
7. Coronella mnlticincta (Martin). Allied to the " Couleuvre a capu-
chm, but has the muzzle much shorter and rounder; it differs also in the
distribution of colours.
The head is broad, the eyes very small, the muzzle very short and blunt.
The head is gray, finely and closely marbled, and dotted with black; a ring
of which colour encircles the neck. The ground colour of the trunk above
is pale cinereous gray, barred with transverse marks of black, broadest in the
middle, and having a disposition to assume the arrow-headed form; they
unite with the black of the abdomen alternately, so that their direction across
the back is not directly transverse, but obliquely so.
Length of head and body . . .1 foot li inch
Length of tail .... 2^ „
8. Coronella modesta (Martin). Head small; muzzle short, but mode
rately pointed; eyes small. Scales of upper parts smooth and small;
universal colour, yellowish gray. A black band passes from eye to eye; a
second crosses the occiput; and a third, of a more decided tint, encircles the
back of the neck. In a specimen from Trebizonde, procured by K. Abbot,
Esq., the marks on the head are more obscure.
Length of head and body . . . .9 inches
Length of tail . . . . . . 2^ „
9. Coronella pulchra (Martin). Head long, flat, and pointed at the
muzzle ; eyes moderate.
Scales small and smooth.
General ground colour ashy gray; the head above beautifully marbled,
and mottled with black ; an irregular mark crosses each superciliary plate, and
extends upon the verticle; and a mark of the same character traverses each
occipital, and extends upon the sides of the occiput. A black mark runs
below the eye to the margin of the lips, and a second to the angle of the
mouth ; a series of blackish spots begins on the back of the neck, and runs
down the back, where they become larger, and often broken into a double
alternating series ; a line of smaller and deeper black spots runs along each
side, and the upper margins of the abdominal plates also are irregularly
mottled with black. The plates of the abdomen are minutely and obscurely
freckled with dusky black.
Length of head and body . . .1 foot H i nc h
Length of tail . . ■ • . 0 „
5 c 2