. Zoology of Egypt. ales smooth, in 19 rows across the body. Ventrals 213-262, feeblyangulate ; anal 1/1; subcaudals 113-154. Olive-grey, with about 95 dark, narrow, closely set cross-bars on the anteriortwo-thirds of the trunk, the posterior third and the tail uniform olive-grey. Uppersurface of the head with obscure cross markings, occasionally a dark temporal bandand a dark spot below the eye; the pre- and postoculars yellow or orange-yellow, andan area before the dark temporal band of the same colour; the angles of the ventralsgenerally with a dusky spot. Underparts white or pale yellowish
. Zoology of Egypt. ales smooth, in 19 rows across the body. Ventrals 213-262, feeblyangulate ; anal 1/1; subcaudals 113-154. Olive-grey, with about 95 dark, narrow, closely set cross-bars on the anteriortwo-thirds of the trunk, the posterior third and the tail uniform olive-grey. Uppersurface of the head with obscure cross markings, occasionally a dark temporal bandand a dark spot below the eye; the pre- and postoculars yellow or orange-yellow, andan area before the dark temporal band of the same colour; the angles of the ventralsgenerally with a dusky spot. Underparts white or pale yellowish white. In some(Persian specimens) there is a pinkish vertebral line. It attains to a length of 1167 millim., of which the tail forms 297 millim. The two specimens here recorded were obtained on the margin of the desert in thelocalities mentioned. It has a wide distribution. Besides Egypt, it has been found in Somaliland, and outsideof Africa it extends to Arabia, Syria, Persia, Transcaspia, and North-western
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