34 EUTAINIA. 



California. 161. 67. 19. 35i 7*. (84 spots) | ^^"^ ^^\^ 



SanFrancisco, Cat 165. 85. 21. 21|. 8|. " 



" 167.84.19. 28J. 7i. (80 spots.) Dr. Leconte. 



12. 'Euf ainia. radix, B. & G. — General color black, -witli three nar- 

 row gamboge-yellow lines. Lateral rows of scales broader than usual. 



The head is shorter than usual with the genus. The exterior row 

 of dorsal scales is very broad, nearly as high as long. The second 

 nearly similar in proportion, (a little longer than high,) but smaller, 

 and yet markedly larger than the third and succeeding rows. Pos- 

 terior angle of the exterior dorsal scales truncated, with the corners 

 rounded off, a character seen to less extent on the second row. The 

 carination of all the scales is greater than usual, and the whole animal 

 has a rougher appearance. 



Color above deep brownish black, on the sides verging to lustrous 

 anthracite black, especially on the exterior dorsal and sides of ab- 

 dominal scutellae. Beneath bluish black, with minute mottlings of 

 dull gamboge yellowish, which increasing anteriorly becomes uni- 

 form greenish gamboge yellow on the anterior third. A narrow line 

 of black near the posterior edge across each abdominal scutella. A 

 dorsal line of gamboge yellow along the middle of the vertebral row 

 of scales, and one on each side along the 3d lateral row, occasionally 

 involving the lower edge of the 4th row. 



There are faint indications of the usual black spots where the 

 epidermis has been lost. 

 Racine, Wisconsin. 153. 51. 19. 22f. 4|. Dr. Hoy. 



3. Dorsal rows 21. 



13. E^tltainia elegans, B. & G. — Eesembles E. proxima, but be- 

 longs to a different section. Black above, light beneath. A broad ochra- 

 ceous dorsal stripe, with two lateral, greenish white. Dorsal scales 21. 



Head very short, broad. Upper labial plates highly developed. 

 Eyes small. Exterior dorsal row of scales largest, delicately cari- 

 nated, remainder of equal size. Above deep blackish brown. An 

 ochraceous or dark gamboge-yellow dorsal stripe begins at the occiput, 

 and suddenly widening to the width of 3 or 4 scales, contracts gradu- 



