APPENDIX A. 149 



Masticopliis flagelliformls, B. & G. ' ,/ / J , 



A young individual in the cabinet of tlie Academy of Natural 

 Sciences of Philadelphia, and labelled '' Coluber reticularis, Daud.," 

 present the following characters, after long preservation in alcohol : — 

 Above white, with a series of transverse dark bars across the back, 

 extending from head to tail, about two scales long, and crossing from 

 one side of the abdomen to the other. There is a faint indication of 

 darker lateral lines extending through the centres of the lateral rows 

 of scales. Beneath white, with two series of brown dotted lines ex- 

 tending from the chin for about one-fourth of the length. Plates on 

 the top of the head yellowish, with darker margins. 



South Carolina. 17. 19. 4f . Acad. Nat. Sc. 



