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II. A yellow band from orbit bDunded below by a black or browu one. (Saddb- 8|>ot8 

 closed laterally ii1)o\'o gastrotoges; siii)erciliary liglit spots or bands). 



A balf collar nearly or (jnite tonching occipital plates, no bauds; alturnatt^ spots 

 largely on gastrosteges (). </. culhiria. 



Neck with longitudinal bauds; alternate spots largely ou gastrosteges. O. d. chriciis. 



Neck with bands; alternate spots entirely on scales O. il. (riuiifiiiluH. 



The 0. (1. pohjzona Cope [Goronella fonnosa Schl.) and 0. d. coiijuncta 



Jan. (O. <h ofcipitalis Cope) are exclusively Mexican and Central AnuT- 



icaii. 



Ophibolus doliatus coccineus Schleg. 



Coi)e, Check List N. Amor, liatr. Kept., 187."), p. ;}(i ; Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mas., iH.-i-', j>. ;{f^-^. 



Coronella coccinea Schlegel, Ess. Phys. Serp., ii, 1837, p. (57, Pi. 2, Fig. 11. 



Lampropeitis coccineus CoT^G, Proc. Acad. Phila. , 18G0, p. 



Ophihiihis doliatus Bd. and Gird., Cat. N. Amer. Serp., Id;"):}, p. w'.t. 



Corouilhi (loliata \av (iiiiliUs Jiocourl. Mis. Sci. Mex. IrtbG, )». (510, PI. xxxix, Fig. ">. 



The Austroriparaii region. 



Ophibolus doliatus auuulatus Kenn. 



Cope, Check List, Batr. Kept. N. Amer., Id7."i, p. :50; Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 188d, p. 382. 

 Lampropcllis annulafa Kennicott, Proc. Acad. Phila., 1860, p. 3"2it. 



S. W. Texas and Xuevo Leon, Mexico. 



Ophibolus doliatus gentilis 15d. and Gird. 



Cope, Check List Batr. Rept. N. Amer., 187:>, p. 30 ; Proc. U. S. Nat. Mns., 1888, 383. 

 Ophibolus (jentilis Bd. and Gird., Cat. Serp. N. Amer., 1853, p. DO ; Marcy's Report Expl. 

 Red River, 18o3, p. 229, PI. viii. 



Arkansas. 



Ophibolus doliatus parallelus Cope. 



Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1888, p. 385. Coronella coccinea Jan, Icon Gen. Olid., i. IT, i. 

 Fig. 1. 



Floridau district. 



Ophibolus doliatus syspilus Cope 



Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1888, p. .}!H. I'oronvlln dnHala var. (jrntilis, .Ian, Icon. Gen. 

 Olid., I, 17, I, Fig. 2. 



The Austroriparian region. 



Ophibolus doliatus doliatus Linn. 



Cope Batr. Rept. N. Am. Cheek List, 1875, p. 37; Proc. U. S. Nat. Mns. iHs.-^, p. ;{•,;{. 

 Coluber doliatus Linn., loc. sup. eit.; Harlan, Coronella doliata llollirook, loc. sup. 

 cit.; Dum. Bibr. Hrp. Gen., loc. sup. cit.; Giinther, loc. sup. cit. 



Austroriparian re,":ion and Carolinian district. 



Ophibolus doliatus coUaris (Opi-. 



I'roc. V. S, Nat. Mns., 188-, p. 3r3. 



Coronella dolialu Jan, Icon. Gen. Otidi., i, iivr. II, PI. i\ , Fig. A. (oronilla doliata 



tijpica L. Bocourt Miss. Sci. Mex. L886, PI. xxxix, Fig. 2. Coronella trimia Jan, 



loc. cit., I, 17, I, Fig. 3. 



The Carolinian di.strict. 

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