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other snakes, but take the offending object in their mouths and 

 shut down on it. Their teeth are so small that they can do 

 little injury. 



OpMbolus doliatus geutilis Baird and Girard. 



Arkansas King Snake. 



Ophibolus gentilis Baird and Girard, Cat. N. Amer. Kept., Pt. I, Serp., 1853, 

 p. 90. 



Osceola doliata gentilis Cope, Rep. Nat. Mus., p. 894. 



Fig 25. 

 Ophibolus doliatus gentilis B. and Q. 



Fig. 25cf. 

 Ophibolus doliatus gentilis B. and G. 



Scales smooth, in twenty-one rows. Frontal with the three 

 margins convex, pointed behind. Superciliaries small. Oc- 

 cipitals broad, truncate. Prefrontals short, broad. Inter- 

 nasals short and very wide. Rostral prominent. Loreal 

 narrow, long. Two nasals ; nostril opening mostly in anterior. 

 Oculars 1-2. Temporals 2-2 or 2-3. Seven upper labials, fifth 



