. Zoology of Egypt. elds dusky yellowish brown speckled withreddish brown; sides of the head (labials) finely dotted with dark brown, more or lessstreaked with orange-brown ; under surface of the head with numerous dark brownsmall spots. In the longitudinally spotted forms the dorsal brown band is reduced to a chain ofspots running backwards from each parietal along the body to the tail, and separatedfrom each other about the middle of the body by five longitudinal lines of paler-colouredscales, each spot having an interval of a scale before and behind it; the lateral dark linebecomes pale, fi
. Zoology of Egypt. elds dusky yellowish brown speckled withreddish brown; sides of the head (labials) finely dotted with dark brown, more or lessstreaked with orange-brown ; under surface of the head with numerous dark brownsmall spots. In the longitudinally spotted forms the dorsal brown band is reduced to a chain ofspots running backwards from each parietal along the body to the tail, and separatedfrom each other about the middle of the body by five longitudinal lines of paler-colouredscales, each spot having an interval of a scale before and behind it; the lateral dark linebecomes pale, finely and irregularly spotted with black. A dark brown spot on the sideof each ventral and continued on to the tail; two parallel lines of larger and more irregularspots internal to it, separated from each other on the anterior part of the body by ayellowish interspace, darker than the rest of the ventrals and becoming spotted as it istraced backwards, where it becomes faint. The markings on the head and on its under. PSAMMOPHIS SCHOKAEI. 297 surface the same as in the striped forms. In others, the spots of the dorsal linesbecome nearly obsolete ; also every alternate scale along the mesial line of the backbecomes paler than the surrounding scales, so that a vertebral chain of paler scales ispresent. In such forms the black innermost spots on the ventrals become finelongitudinal lines enclosing a broad dusky ashy space, prolonged to near the extremityof the tail, finely punctulated with minute blackish spots. The head-markings remainintact. In others the general colour may be pale greyish olive above without black spotsfeebly indicated, but with a tendency to form a pale dorsal streak here and these forms the head-markings are practically obsolete, but a short narrow darkband is present behind the eye. Under surface of head immaculate. The spots onthe angles of the ventrals very feebly marked, also the dark lines, but a broad yellowishband, more or less speckled at its
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