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e2. Dorsal spots more than 90, or sum of ventrals and caudals more than 

 300, or tail length divided by total length more than 0.145; anterior 

 dorsal spots generally fusing with the smaller alternating lateral 

 spots, and often fusing with each other (Lower California and 

 southern California north to Monterey along the coast and inland 

 to San Bernardino County and Mohave Desert) 



catenifer annectens (p. 185) 



PITUOPHIS DEPPEI DEPPEI (Dumfiril and Bibron) 



I'Jlaphis Deppei Dxjmekil, Mem. Acad. Inst. France, vol. 23, p. 453, 1853.— 



DuMiRiL and Bibron, Erp6tologie gdn^rale, vol. 7, p. 268, 1854 (type in 



Leiden Museum; type locality, Mexico). 

 Pituophis deppei Jan, Elenco sistematico degU Ofidi, p. 59, 1863; Iconographie 



g^n^rale des ophidiens, livr. 22, pi. 2, fig. 2, 1867. 

 Pityophis Deppei Ducfes, La Naturaleza, ser. 1, vol. 1, p. 144, 1870; ibid., ser. 2, 



vol. 1, p. 125, 1888; ibid., ser. 2, vol. 1, p. 286, 1889. 

 Pityophis catenifer deppei Garman, Bull. Essex Inst., vol. 16, p. 27, 1884. 

 Spilotes deppei Cope, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 32, p. 72, 1887. 

 Pituophis pleurostictus var. deppei Bocourt, Mission scientifique au Mexique et 



dans I'Am^rique Centrale, Reptiles, p. 668, pi. 42, figs. 3, 3a, 3b, 3d, 3f, 1888. 

 Pithyophis deppei Herrara, La Naturaleza, ser. 2, vol. 1, pp. 278, 281 ff., 1889. 

 Pitiophis deppei Herrara, ibid., p. 338, 1890. 

 Epiglottophis deppei Cope, Amer. Nat., vol. 25, p. 157, 1891. 

 Coluber deppei Boxjlenger, Catalogue of snakes in the British Museum, vol. 2, 



p. 66, 1894. 

 Pituophis deppii GIjnther, Biologia Centrah- Americana, Reptilia, p. 124, 1894 



(part) . 

 Pityophis deppei Terron, Mem, Rev. Soc. Cient. "Antonio Alzate," vol. 39, p. 170, 



1921. 

 Pituophis deppei deppei Stull, Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, No. 250, p. 



1, 1932. — Burt, Journ. Washington Acad. Sci., vol. 25, No. 8, p. 381, 1935. — 



DuNKLE and Smith, Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, No. 363, p. 7, 



1937. 

 Elaphis pleurostictus Dum6ril, Mem. Acad. Inst. France, vol. 23, p. 453, 1853. — 



DuM^RiL and Bibron, Erp6tologie g^nerale, vol. 7, p. 244, 1854 (type in Paris 



Museum; type locality, Montevideo [probably erroneous]). 

 Pituophis pleurostictus Jan, Elenco sistematico degH Ofidi, p. 59, 1863. — Bocourt, 



Mission scientifique au Mexique et dans I'Am^rique Centrale, Reptiles, 



p. 666, pi. 42, figs. 2-2d, 1888. 

 Epiglottophis pleurostictus Cope, Amer. Nat., vol. 30, pp. 1014, 1021, 1896; Rep. 



U. S. Nat. Mus. for 1898, p. 861, 1900. 

 Pituophis vertebralis (not of de Blainville) Gxjnther, Catalogue of the colubrine 



snakes in. . . the British Museum, p. 86, 1858. 

 Pituophis deppei var. pholidostictus Jan, Elenco sistematico degli Ofidi, p. 59, 1863. 

 Pituophis mexicanus (not of Dumlril and Bibron), ibid., p. 59. 



Original description. — Dum6ril and Bibron (1854, p. 268) describe 

 this form under the name "Elaphis Deppei" as follows: 



Caracthres. — Une seule plaque anale, ainsi qu'une pr^oculaire; flancs non piquet^s. 

 Sommet de la rostrale assez distinctement rabattu sur le museau; une pr^oculaire, 

 deux postoculaires, quatrifeme et cinquieme sus-labiales touchant I'oeil. Scutelle 

 anale enti^re. Point de lignes noires sur la t^te, ni de bandes longitudinales sur 

 la nuque, ni de raie allant de I'oeil k Tangle de la bouche. 



