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tail, each pair enclosing a white ring. Head from the eyes to the 

 snout red, vertical plate maculated with black. A black bar across 

 the occipitals to the temporal shields, and another on the neck, 

 between which a yellowish ring, narrow above, and spreading over 

 the angle of the mouth, post upper labials and inferior surface of the 

 head. The )>lack rings cover from two to three scales, and the inter- 

 mediate white, one scale. The red spaces between the black em- 

 brace from 4 to 7 scales. The black rings taper towards the sides, 

 whilst the white ones are spreading. 



Charleston, S. C. 175. 44. 19. 17|. 2f . Dr. S. B. Barker. 



In a specimen from Mississippi there are 21 pairs of black rings 

 from the head to the anus, narrower than in the specimen from 

 Charleston, and interrupted on the abdomen. The intermediate 

 white is of about the same width in each. On the tail there are 5 

 pairs of black rings, all the rings at the same distance apart, and 

 equal in width to their interspaces. 



Mississippi. 180. 54. 19. 17. 2i Dr. B. F. Shumard. 



