610 NORTH AMERICAN SNAKES COPE. 



Ophibolus doliatus clericus Bd. and Gird. 



OphiholuHDlericus Bd. aud Gird., Cat. Rept. N. Amer. Serpeuts, p. 88. Cope, Proc. U. S- 

 Nat. Mus., 1888, p. :i83. 

 Caroliuiau district, Louisiauian district. 



OphibolvLs doliatus triangulus Bote. 



Cope, Cheek List N. Am. Batr., Rept., 1875, p. 37 ; Proc, U, S. Nat. Mus., 1888, p. 383. 



Coluber trian[iulnm Boie, Isis von Oken. 1827, p. 537. 



Ablabes triangidum Duui. aud Bibr., Erp. Gen., vii, 1854, p. 315; Hallowell, Proc. Acad. 



Phila., Ie56, p. 245. 

 Lampropeltis iriamjuln Cope, Proc. Phila. Acad., 1860, p. 25(5. 

 Pseudoelapa Y BertUold, Abh. k. Gess. Wiss., Gottingen, i, 1843, p. 67, PI. 1, Figs. 



11-12. 

 Coluber ernnijfsDekay, N. York Fauna, Rept. 1842, p. 38; Harlan, Jouiu. Acad. Nat. 



Sci. Phila., 1827 p. 3<i0; Holbrook, N. Am. Herp., iii, 1842, PI. 15; Giiuther, Catal. 



Colubr. Snakes Brit. Mus., 1858, p. 1>1. 

 Ophibolus cvimius Bd. aud Gird., Cat., 1853, p. 87. 



Ophibolus rhoinboinaculatus HoLbr. 



Bd. aud Gird., Cat. Serp. N. Amer., 1853, p. 8G ; Cope Check List Batr. Rept. N. Amer., 

 1875, p. 37. 



Coronella rhomhomaeulata Holbr., N. Amer. Herp., iii, 1842, p. 103, PI. xxiii. 



Lam2)ropellis rhomhomaeulata Cope, Proc. Acad. Phila., 1860, p. 255 Ophibolus trian- 

 gulus vav. rhombomaculatus Garman, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool. Cam.vili, 1883, p. 156. 



Carolinian district east of Allegheny Mountains. 



Ophibolus calligaster Say. 



Cope, Check List N. Amer. Batr. Rept., 1875, p. 37. 



Coluber calligaster Say, Harlau Med. aud Phys. Researches, 1835, p. 122. 

 Alabes triangulum var. calligaster HalloV., Proc. Acad., Phila., 1856, p. 244. 

 Lampropellis calligaster Cope, Proc. Phila. Acad., 1860, p. 255. 

 Ophibolus evansii Keuuicott, Proc. Phila. Acad., 185'J p. 90. 



Ophibolus triangulus \'av. calligaster Gavman, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool. Cambr.,viii, 1883, 

 p. 155. 



Illinois and Kansas to Texas. 



Ophibolus pyrrhoinelas Cope. 



Ophibolus pyromelanus Cope, Proc. Acad. Phila., 1866, j). 305; Chock List Batr. Rept. 



N. Amer., 1875, p. 37 (pyrrhomelas), Rept. U. S. G. Surv., W. of 100th Mei., v, 



1875. p. .537, PI. XIX. 

 liellophis zoiiatus Sockington, Proc. C:il. Acad. Sci., 1877, j). .'2. 

 Ophibolus getulus var, pyrrhomelas Garmau Mem. Mus. Comp. Zo<)i. Cambr., viii, 1883, 



]). 157. 

 Coronella multifasciata Bocourt, Miss. Sci. Mex., 1886, p. 616; PI. xl, lig. 2. 



This species occupies a position between the Ophibolus dotiatus, and 

 the Opiriholu.s getulus boylii. It is in fact an Ophibolus getulus boylii of 

 slender form and reduced size, in which the black spaces between the 

 white rings are more or less split by red. This division, when complete, 

 gives the snake the ai)pearance of the Ophibolus doliatus conjuuctus, and 

 to a somewhat less degree of the 0. d. coccineus. Such are specimens 

 8174, 4292, and 10200. Where the black is complete just at the middle 



