38$ THE SNAKES OF FLORIDA. 



third and fourth bounding orbit. Postgeueials half as long as pre- 

 geneials. 



Back crossed by saddles of brownish-red (in alcohol), with black bor- 

 ders, which extend to the gastrosteges, and thus close the saddles by the 

 longitudinal direction of the black border. These borders of opposite 

 sides form parallel longitudinal black lines. Thesaddles are long, cover- 

 ing on an average nine scales. There are twenty of thern in front of the 

 anus in the type specimen. They are separated byyellow intervals of one 

 and a half scales in width. There are no lateral or ventral spots opposite 

 to these, alternating with the principal one.^. The ground color below 

 is yellowish. The top of the head is reddish-brown, bounded posteriorly 

 by black, which crosses the posterior border of the occipital scuta. 

 This is followed by a yellow half collar, which is followed by the black 

 anterior border of the first dorsal saddle, and which turns backwards 

 along the ends of the gastrosteges like the others ; a yellowish-black 

 edged spot on each superciliary plate and a similar one on the canthus 

 rostralis, which sends a short branch along the anterior border of the 

 frontal. Superior parts of superior labials black, inferior parts yellow- 



10544: 21, 7: 210 + 1 + 146: 325, 42. 



This subspecies occupies an interesting intermediate position between 

 0. d. annulatus and 0. d. syspilus. It differs from the former in the fu- 

 sion of the lateral saddle- borders and the absence of a black collar ; from 

 the latter in the absence of intermediate spots on the middle of the belly 

 and the close approximations of the borders of the saddles. 



Ophibolus doliatus parallelus Cope. 



Gainesville, Fla James Bell , Alcoholic. 



Ophibolus getulus getulusL. 



Specimens of this species from Florida have the scales in twenty-three 

 longitudinal rows instead of in twenty- one, the normal number for the 

 species. In this respect they agree with the 0. g. boylii of the Pacific 

 district. 



Dromicus flavilatus Cope. 



Besides the specimens I have noted from Yolusia, the National Mu- 

 seum has received four from G. Wittefield, Georgiana, in southeast 

 Florida, and Mr. S. W. Garman reports it from another locality. 



Coluber obsoletus lemniscatus, subsp. nov. 



This snake differs from the typical G. o. obsoletus in the distinctness 

 of the color pattern, which shows the lateral spots confluent into a broad 

 band which extends from the neck to the end of the tail. The dorsal 

 spots are distinct, and the angles of the anterior are continued as two 

 parallel nuchal bands to the parietal scuta. Below clouded, but not 

 spotted. No head bauds. Several rows of dorsal scales keeled. 



