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In this bird the upper part of the head, the wing coverts, tail coverts, and 

 the upper part of the body are bright yellowish green bronze, except on the 

 top of the head, which is rather duller. The throat is beautiful metallic 

 shining amethyst color. The breast forming a kind of band across and com- 

 municating in a faint line on each side of the neck with the corner of the eye, 

 is white, slightly tinged with chestnut. The flanks, legs and lower part of 

 the belly are of the same color. The sides of the body under the wings are 

 mixed, scale-like, with bronze, green and chestnut color. The quills are pur- 

 plish gray black, the tail bright purplish black, the second and third feathers 

 having edges of light chestnut, not reaching to the point, and giving them the 

 appearance of being spatulate in form. The tail is composed of six feathers, two 

 on each side about the same length, and the third about one-third shorter. 

 The feet, nails, and bill are black. The bill is considerably curved. Total 

 length 3| inches, wing 1^, tail H, bill f . 



The female is like the male in the color of the upper parts of the body. The 

 throat and breast and abdomen are grayish white, tinged with chestnut, very 

 pale on the last, sides under the wings light chestnut, mixed with bronze 

 green towards the breast. The tail feathers are ten, light chestnut in their 

 half towards the body, and the terminal half black, with the first and second 

 widely tipped with white, and the third slightly. The middle feathers are 

 bronze green. The female is about one-eighth of an inch shorter than the 

 male. 



Catalogue of the Colubridae in the Museum of the Academy of Natural Sciences 



of Philadelphia. Part 3. 



BY E. D. COPE. 



PSA MMOPHIDINM. 



Malpolon Fitz. Type M. la c e r t in u s. 



Neue Classif. pp. 29, 59, 1826. Ccelopeltis Fitz., 1843, Dum. & Bibr. Giinther 

 nee Wagler, 1820 ; Rhabdodon Fleischm., 1831 ; " Bothriophis Eiehw.," Gthr. : 

 Taphrometopon Brandt, 1839. 



162. M. lacertinus Fitz. " Coluber monspessulanus Hermann," also " Mer - 

 rem," (1804 & 1820), Bonap., (descriptions not recognizable). Hence Ccelopeltis 

 monspessulana Bp. Fauna Italica, 1832 ; Natriz lacertina Wagl. in Spix, Serp. 

 Bras., 1824 Fig. ; Psammopkis lacertina Boie, Isis, 1827 ; Schlegel, Ess. Ccelo- 

 peltis lacertina Wagl. Natur. Syst., 1830; Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mus., 1858; Col. 

 insignilus Geoff. St. Hilaire, Hist. Egypt, 1827 Fig. ; Ccelopeltis insignitus Dum. 

 Bibr. Erp. Gen. vii. 1130,1854; " L Taphrometopon lineolalus, Brandt,' Kareline, 

 Rev. Mag. de Zoologie, 1840," Dum. Bibr. Rhabdodon fuscus Fleischm. 1831. 



Dr. Wilson, (Bp. Coll.) 



Psammophis Fitz. Type P. crucifer. 

 Neue Class. Rept. 29, 59, June 1826. (nee H. Boie Bull, de Sci. Nat. et Geol. 

 Ferussac, Oct. 1826, which must be regarded as a synonyme of Coronella 

 Laur.!) F. Boie, Isis 1827, 521, et auctorum. Macrosoma Leach, in Bowditch's 

 Ashantee, 1819, (nee Hiibner, Lepidoptera, 1816.) 



163. P. crucifer Fitz. I.e. Boie I.e., Dum. Bibr. Erp. Gen. 1854. Coluber 

 crucifer Merr. Beitrage, 1821, fig. ICol. lurus Klein, Tent. 1775; founded on 

 Seba, 53, f. 2. 

 One spec. Cape Good Hope, Gard. Plants in ex 



I860.] 



