602 NORTH AMERICAN SNAKES — COPE. 



frontal proper. One nasal. Loral entering into the orbit; above it one 



anteorbital. Superciliaries well developed. Genieals, one pair. Pupil 



circular. Scales smooth. Postabdomiual scutella bifid, Subcaudals 



all in pairs. 



Lodia tenuis Bd. and Gird. 



Cat. Rept. N. Amer. Serpents, p. IIG, 1H53 ; Cope, Check List N. Amer., Batr. Rept., 

 p. 3(), 187r>. 



This species so much resembles the Gontia mitis as to lead to the sus. 

 picion that its generic peculiarities are abnormalities of the head scuta. 

 The relations of the loreal plate are, however, symmetrical, and the 

 frontal plate is wider than in the C. mitis. The coloration is identical 

 in alcohol. The head is relatively shorter. To this fact are to be as- 

 cribed its tegumental peculiarities. It is in any case a type of recent 

 origin. 



Puget Sound, Oregon. 



CEMOPHORA Cope. 



Proc. Acad. Phila., 1860, p. 244; Bull. U. S. Nat. Mua., 82, 1887, p. 50 ; Jan, Elenco 

 Sist. d. Otidi, 1863, p. 4.5. 



Head small, continuous with the body. Eostral plate large, promi- 

 nent, subtrihedral. One pair of prefontal plates, and one of inter- 

 nasals. One nasal ; nostril in the middle. One loral. Pre and post or. 

 bitals present. Superciliaries, eyes, and month small. Teeth lunger 

 posteriorly. Scales smooth. Postabdomiual scutum entire; subcau- 

 dals bifid. 



But one species of this genus is known. Its general characters are 

 as follows : 



Scales in nineteen rows; superior labials six, the eye over the third ; tail about one- 

 eighth of total leugtli; red, crossed by pairs of black rings separated by a 

 yellow one, which is divided by a black spot on the side C. coccinea. 



Cemophora coccinea Blumenbach. 



Cope, Proc. Acad. Phila., 1860, p. 244. 



Coluber coccineus Blumenbach, in Licit, and Voigts Magazine, v, 1788, PI, v; Gmelin, 



Syst, Nat., Ed, xiii, i, iii, 1788, 1877; Harlan, Jour. Acad. Phila., V, 1827, p. 356, 

 Heterodon coccineus Schleg. Ess. Physion. Serp., 1837, 102, PI. iii, Figs. 15, 16. 

 likinostoma coccinea Holbrook, N, Amer,, Herpet., iii, 1842, 125; Bd, and Gird., Cat., 



1853, 118. 

 Simotes cocciueun Dum, Bibr., Erp. Gen, vii, 1854 ; Giiuther, Cat. Colubr. Snakes, Brit. 



Mus., 1858. 

 Cemophora copei Jan, Archiv. p. la ^blog. Modena, ii, 1863, p. 21. 



The Cemophora coccinea is a species of the Austrorii)arian region, but 

 it has not been found in the Texan district, nor does it ascend the Mis- 

 sissippi Kiver as far as the region extends. It is especially abundant 

 in Florida. The specimen from Tennesse(; described by Jan under the 

 name G. copei presents the abnormality of the loreal reaching the orbit 

 below the preocular. 



