VOL 

 1801 



rJ'i" J pk()CKi:din(!S of thk national mtski'm. r;:',3 



|j;^lit ii'ililisli lirowii, Willi !m;;iilar hii^^lit luu-k-ii'il spots aln»vr. 

 Iliad with biifk red bands, anaii;,aMl fii ilu'vroii, tin* aii;^lf anlnior, 

 with blackish borders. lUdow, wliitc tosseUated witli bhick. 



This handsome species is represented by two \vell-inark«'<l subsprciea, 

 which diller as foHows : 



Scales in twenty-sevoii rows; liend IiuiuIh pn-sonl ; ilorHul MpotH iinrruw, cxtoiulii)); 

 over ten to tiftecii rows, ami willi one or two rows of lateral MpotM oii ea« li 

 side <'. (J. ijutlalua. 



Scales in twenty-nine rows ; head liands, exceptinj; the poatoeiilar, wautinj; or nidi- 

 mental; dorsal spots wider, covoriuj; nineteen to twenty-one rows of senles ; no 

 lateral spots ('. g. sellaluB. 



This spe<'ies ranges the Austroriparian re<jion east of the Mississippi 

 River and tlie Carolinian district of the lOastern, not, however, ent"rin<; 

 New Jersey. The subspecies C. {/. siUafus is restricted to IMorida. It 

 is one of onr most brilliantly colored species, and is of iuolfensive man- 

 ners. It is altofxether terrestrial in its habits. 



Coluber guttatus giittitim Linn. 



Loe. tit. llarl., Sclile<j., Ilolhr., (iiiuth., Cope., 1. c. 



Svolopli'iD ;/ntlatu8 Hil. and Ciird., 1. c. 



Klaphia (jutltttiis Dnni. I5ibr., 1. c. 



Coluber compreaxua Merrcni., 1. c. 



C'olnhtr caroliniaiius ."^liaw. 1. c. 



Colubfv niariihtlii.i Lati'. Merr. Harlan, 1. c. 



Coluber j)anlhrriHua Merr., 1. c. 



Coluber JloridunuH Harlan. I.e. 



Virginia to Florida and Mississippi, inclusive. 



Coluber guttatus sellatus ("ope. 

 Proc. r. S. Nat. Mus., l-^H. p. it-T. 



Florida. 



Coluber rosaceus (^ope. 



Troc. r. S. Nat. Mus., 1888, j.. U^--, Pi. xxxvi, Fi^'. X 

 Florida (Key West). 



Coluber quadrivittatus HoiWr. 



N. .\nier. Herp., in. \-\2. p. ■"'.'. IM. xx ; (Jiinther, Cat. Coluber .'^nakes Hril. .Mus., 



H.'iH, p. K«;; Cope, Cheek List Hatr. Kept. N. Anier., 187.'., p. WJ. 

 Scotnphia iiuttdririltatHt Hd. and (Jird.. Cat. ."^erpt. N. Anier., iSTvl, p. H' 

 Klaphis ifiuiihiviltntiiH \)n\\\. Hil>r..Krii. Oen., \ ii. \<%\, ]». '.'•'>.">; Garnian, .Mini. .Miis. 

 Coinp. Zool. Canilir., \lii, T^.'^:!, \>. \y.\. 



North ('arolina to Florida, inilnsive. 



An instructive series of the yonnj; of tiiis species was sent to the 

 National Mnseum by William Witt held, from (leor^riana. Hn-vard 

 County, Fla. They number nineteen specimrns. and show how a 

 lonjiitudinally banded siiakr is developed from a spotti'(l one. Tin* 

 specimens may be divide<l into three lots; the first ineludinjr Xos. l.'^(;."»(), 

 i;U)."iL'. i;i»;(iS, i;;»i(l!>, Li«i7S. l.;t;.s'), l.'.r.JXi, ami l.'.7<><;. These are the 



