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as large a size as any. Every character is consistent. The 

 head is short, the parietal plates are short, the body is short, 

 the tail is short, and the spots are short relatively to the other 

 species of the genus. 



(Description from Cope's "Crocodilians, Lizards, and Snakes," 

 p. 831.) 



This species is listed on the authority of Cope and Cragin, 

 but their statements are not definite. In a letter to me, dated 

 May 20, 1903, Professor Cragin says: "I think I have myself 

 collected this species (C. vulpinus) in Kansas, and have identi- 

 fied a specimen that Professor Popeuoe collected. But I can 

 no longer remember the localities, and I may be mistaken in 

 my impression." Cragin, in his list of Kansas reptiles of 1880, 

 gives this species on the authority of Cope. In his check-list 

 of 1875, Cope gives the range of C. vulpinus as '* Massachusetts 

 to Michigan, Kansas and northward," but in his "Crocodili- 

 ans. Lizards, and Snakes," Webster City, low^a, is the most 

 vsresterly locality given. It is probable that C. vulpinus occurs 

 in Kansas, but with the present evidence I list it as doubtful. 



Coluber emoryi Baird and Girard. 



Emory's Snake. 

 Scolophis emoryi Baird and Girard, Cat. N. Amer. Rept., Pt. I, Serp., 1853. 

 p. 157. 



Coluber emoryi Cope, Check-list N. Amer. Batr. Rept., 1875, p. 39. 

 Coluber gut tatus Boulenger, part, Cat. Snakes Brit. Mus., 1891, p. 39. 



Three well-developed scales in the first row of temporals. 

 Frontal plate more elongated than in the species of allied color, 

 being decidedly longer than broad. Head rather narrow. Eye 

 large, its center a little posterior to the junction of the fourth 

 and fifth labials. Postorbitals resting on the fifth labial. Ante- 

 orbital large. Loreal elongated, acute-angled behind. Upper 

 labials eight, sixth and seventh largest. Lower labials eleven, 

 sixth largest. Dorsal rows of scales 27-29; smooth, except 

 traces on central five or six in a few individuals. Exterior row 

 largest, rest nearly equal. 



Ground color grayish ash. A series of olivaceous brown, 

 transverse, quadrate blotches along the back as high as seventy 

 in number, from thirty-five to fifty anterior to the anus. These 

 are ten or twelve scales broad, two or three long, and separated 



