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Frequently the occipitals are truncate behind. A specimen 

 nov/ before me has long, pointed occipitals, a scale and a half 

 projecting between them posteriorly. The frontal has no truly 

 characteristic shape. The specimen with the large occipitals 

 has a shield-shaped frontal. One with short and truncate occi- 

 pitals has a short and abruptly terminating frontal. One pre- 

 ocular, touching or nearly touching the frontal. Loreal medium, 

 quadrangular. Rostral high. Two nasals, nare almost entirely 

 in anterior. Three postoculars (occ. two). Seven superior 

 labials, fifth and sixth largest ; third and fourth entering the 

 orbit. Inferior labials ten (occ. nine or eleven), fifth largest. 

 Postgenials longer than pregenials. Anal entire. Urosteges 

 55-85. Gastrosteges 150-170. 



Fig. 3. 

 Eataenia radix B. and G. 



Dorsal stripe golden yellow, covering one row and two half- 

 rows of scales. Lateral stripe light yellow, interrupted by black 

 maculations. In places it covers a half-row of scales ; in other 

 places it broadens, covering one and one-half rows. Where it 

 covers only a half-row, that row is the upper half of the third. 

 (Fig. 3,) Ground color above light brown. Two rows of black 

 spots on each side of the dorsal stripe. These spots alternate 

 with each other. They are one scale long and three scales 

 wide. Below the lateral stripe is a row of black spots covering 

 three scales and a small part of a gastrostege dorso-ventrally. 

 They are one scale long. Belly greenish ; one or two black 

 spots near the end of each gastrostege. Under part of head 

 yellowish. Top of head brown. Superior labials greenish, with 



