400 THE EUT2ENIA OF SOUTHEASTERN INDIANA. 



border of the hitter band interrupted. The segments of the superior 

 border of the lateral band represent the inferior spots of the lateral 

 series; the superior row is wanting from the scales. Gastrosteges and 

 nrosteges olive, yellowish in front, dark behind, with a vertical black 

 spot ;it the anterior border of each end of each of the gastrosteges. 

 Labial scuta without black borders; head olive above without mark- 

 ings, except two small, yellow, black-edged parietal spots in the usual 

 position. 



There is but one specimen of the species (No. 264), which is labeled 

 as coming from Richmond, Ind. It is remarkably distinct from every- 

 thing which occurs in the Tinted States, and has only superficial re- 

 semblances to the E. flavilabris Cope, of Mexico. Its peculiar charac- 

 ters are the great width of the lateral color band, which covers three 

 rows of scales, one more than in any other species; the black borders 

 of the bands; the absence of well-defined dorsal lateral spots, and the 

 absence of markings on the head and labial scuta. Besides these color 

 marks, the presence of a large second temporal plate extending to the 

 labials is peculiar to -this species if found constant; and the narrow 

 conical head is characteristic. In the E. flavilabris the general appear- 

 ance is somewhat similar, but the labial plates are broadly black edged, 

 and the lateral band covers but two rows of scales; there is a large 

 postoial yellow dark edged crescent, and the second temporal plate is 

 smaller and does not reach the labials. 



It gives me much pleasure to dedicate this handsome species to Mr. 

 Butler, whose interest and labor in the natural sciences have resulted in 

 many interesting discoveries. 

 6. Eutaenia radix melauotaenia Cope, subsp. nov. 



Scales in twenty-one longitudinal rows, the inferior largest and 

 keeled. Superior labials, 7 (8); frontal wide; oculars, 1-3. Parietals 

 long, borders regular. Temporals, 1-2, the second above, moderate. 

 Gastrosteges, 153 ; anal, 1 ; nrosteges, 68. Head distinct; muzzle short, 

 not protuberant. Lateral stripe on third and fourth rows of scales, not 

 black bordered above or below. Dorsal band on one and two half rows 

 of scales nearly completely black bordered. Between these the dorsal 

 ground color is dark olive-brown, but the space is nearly occupied with 

 the two rows of quadrate black spots. Below the lateral stripe two 

 rows of alternating black spots, one on each row of scales, which some- 

 times coincide, on an olive-brown ground. Gastrosteges with a black 

 longitudiual spot near the eud of each, which is frequently confluent 

 with the adjacent ones, from two to five running together to form an in- 

 terrupted lateral ventral black stripe. Between these, the gastrosteges 

 are black-edged, except on the anterior fourth of the length. Length, 

 285' '"; tail. 65 mm . Anterior dorsal region and top of head nearly black ; 

 two parietal spots. Labial plates and chin yellow, the former with broad 

 black posterior edges on the upper lip. 



In this species the scuta present no exceptional features, except that 



