SYNOPSES AND DESCRIPTIONS. '. .) 



Greyish-brown, with two to four irregular longitudinal series of black 

 dots, sometimes absent. Belly uniform yellowish. Maryland to Georgia 

 and Illinois. 



Virginia harperti. 



Cabpophis harperti Dumeril & Bibron, L854, Erp. Gen. VII, 135. 

 Virginia harperti Cope, 1875, Checkligl,p. 35. 



Two triangular internasals. Prefrontals large, entering the orbit Fron- 

 tal pentagonal. Nasal bifid. Loreal and anteorbital fused, forming a 

 long subrectangular plate. Postorbitals three, second largest. Temporals 

 1 + 2, anterior large, not in contact with orbitals. Labials six, third and 

 fourth in orbit, fifth largest, in contact with tin 1 parietal by its upper angle. 

 Infralabials six. Two pairs of elongate submentals, posterior divergent. 

 Scales smooth, in 15 rows. Ventrals 111. Anal bifid. Subcaudals 32 pairs. 



Yellowish or olivaceous gray, punctulate with blackish. Lower portions 

 white. South Carolina. (D. & B). 



Carphophis. 



Gervais, 1843. 



Body comparatively stout, subcylindrical ; head small, not distinct from 

 the neck, depressed; tail stout, conical. Crown-shields normal, short, 

 Broad, often fused or subdivided. Snout prominent, rostral bent back on 

 the top. Nasal entire. Preocular united with the loreal, or very small. 

 Scales broad, smooth, glossy, in 13 to 15 rows. Anal bifid. Subcaudals 

 in two rows. 



A small preocular; 



a pair of internasals straminea. 



with transverse bands of black cincta. 



preocular united with the loreal; 



prefrontals and internasals fused kelenae. 



prefrontals and internasals separate; 



back reddish-brown amoena. 



back black vermis. 



Carphophis straminea. 



Chilomeniscds stramineus Cope, 1860, /'/■. Ac. X. &., Phil., 339. 

 Internasals partly or entirely separated by the rostral. Frontal obtuse- 

 angled in front. Labials sewn, third and fourth in orbit. Infralabials 



