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the Death Valley Expedition in the Argus Range, Inyo 

 County, California, thought that it added a species to the 

 known fauna of the State. This snake had, however, 

 already been taken at San Diego, California, as mentioned 

 by Professor Cope^ in 1883. More recently, the species has 

 been recorded by Cope- from Witch Creek, San Diego 

 County, and by myself^ from the Cuyamaca Mountains, 

 San Diego County; Strawberry Valley and San Jacinto, 

 Riverside County, and Hesperia, San Bernardino County. 



These localities are all in the Desert and San Diegan 

 faunal areas. It was with much interest, therefore, that I 

 found this snake in the Californian Fauna close to the edge 

 of the Pacific Fauna. The specimen was secured near 

 Los Gatos, Santa Clara County, several hundred miles 

 beyond the range of the species as previously known. It 

 was found under a pile of recently cut hay, at an altitude of 

 about eight or nine hundred feet, in what is locally known 

 as the warm belt of the foothills, where Bascanion laterale, 

 Cnemidophorus tigris undulatus, and Amphispisa belli also 

 occur. 



On the Shape of the Pupil in the Reptilian Genus 



Arizona 



There has been, among herpetologists, much diversity of 

 opinion as to the merits of Kennicott's genus Arizona. The 

 validity of the single species for which he proposed the 

 name Arizona elegans has, I believe, never been questioned, 

 but the known generic characters have been rather inade- 

 quate. Accordingly, while some authors have followed 

 Kennicott, others have referred the species variously to the 

 genera Pituophis of Holbrook, Rhinechis of Michahelles, or 

 Coluber of Linnaeus. 



I believe that all authors (myself included) who mention 

 the point at all describe the eye of this snake as showing a 



» Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1883, p. 32. 



^Report, U. S. Nat. Mus. 1898 (:900),p. 954. . 



' Occas. Papers, Cal. Acad. Sci. 5, 1897, p. 180. 



