Narrow transverse white bands occur on the middorsum.

[2] The range for this snake is from Uzbekistan, south to Iran, and east to western Pakistan.

[4] The Wildlife of Pakistan website describes the range as from the Caspian Sea, through Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan (Bukhara, Samarkand, Tashkent), into Tajikistan, along the Afghan border up to Hindukush, northeastern Balochistan, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, and eastern Iran.

[2] The type locality is listed as "Bairam-Ali, Mariskaya oblast, Turkmeniya" (Baýramaly, Mary Region, Turkmenistan).

[1] It was classified as a separate species, E. multisquamatus, when first described by Cherlin (1981).