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In one specimen from Westport, N. Y., there is a well-defined 

 black line under the lateral stripe. 



2. Eutainia. Faireyi, B. & G. — Body above blackish brown, with 

 three longitudinal stripes of uniform tint. Abdomen greenish white. 

 Stouter than U. saurita. Head large. Tail rather less than one-third total 

 length. 



Syn. Tropidonotus saurita ? Schleg. Ess. Physiogn. Serp. Part, discr, 

 1837, 321. 



A dorsal stripe one and two half-scales wide, and one lateral on 

 each side on the 3d and 4th row, of the same color, (greenish yellow.) 

 Scales broader and more rounded than in E. saurita ; head stouter, 

 color different. Differs from E. proxima, in having all the longitu- 

 dinal stripes of the same color ; from E. saurita in a stouter body, and 

 in having the color, below the lateral stripe the same as that above. 

 Body slender, but stouter than in E. saurita. The tail is propor- 

 tionally shorter than in E. saurita, but longer than in E. proxima. 



Prairie Mer Rouge, La. 178. 115. 19. 30 J. 10. Jas. Fairie. 



" " 174.114.19. 261:. 8. 



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3. £utaillia proxima, B. & G. — Body stoutest of the division. 

 Black above ; three longitudinal stripes, the dorsal ochraceous yellow or 

 brown, lateral greenish white or yellow. Total length about three and a 

 half times that of the tail. 



Syn. Coluber proximus, Say in Long^s Exped. to Rock. Mts. I, 1823, 187. 

 — Harl. Journ. Acad. Nat. Sc. Philad. V, 1827, 353. 



Deep brown almost black above and on the sides ; beneath green- 

 ish white. Dorsal stripe on one and two half-rows of scales, ochra- 

 ceous yellow, lateral stripe on the 3d and 4th rows of scales, greenish 

 yellow or white, markedly different in tint from the dorsal. Sides 



