730 



REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1898. 



nine rows of scales on the body, and the latter says, perhaps by a typo- 

 graphical error, twenty-nine. Bocourt also says that at the period of 

 his writing,' 1882, the specimen was no longer in good condition. It 

 was in good condition at the time of my examination in 1864. 



The Wenona isaheUa does not appear to me to differ specifically from 

 the other forms. Its head plates display a peculiarity which is also seen 



in a si)ecimen from California. 

 (See table, pages 728, 729.) 



This species ranges through- 

 out the entire Pacific district, 

 as well as the Lower Califor- 

 luan. The most eastern point 

 from which the U. S. National 

 Museum has procured spec- 

 imens is the John Day River, 

 of Oregon. It has been also 

 obtained in the Great Basin on 

 the Humboldt River, Nevada. 

 I once took a specimen of the 

 Gharina hottce near the shore of 

 Summer Lake, in Oregon. It was lying in the road stretched at length, 

 but with its muscles alternately knotted, so as to resemble a root. It 

 was very tame and allowed itself to be handled to any extent without 

 attempting to bite. A specimen in the U. S. National Museum contains 

 a small mammal which it had eaten. Another individual was in the act 

 of swallowing a Sceloporus when captured and preserved in spirits. 



Charhia hottw JUaivviUe. 



Fig. 150. 



Charina bott.k Blainville. 



X1.5. 



Showing two rows of loreal plates. 



Catalogue 

 No. 



4497 



8922 

 4494 



4492 

 7299 

 5!U 

 9.563 

 11691 



11789 

 9255 

 4496 



12581 

 12556 

 16148 

 10149 

 16150 

 1G151-2 



Number 

 of speci- 

 mens. 



Locality. 



Willamette Valley, Oregon 

 Presidio, California 



Oakland, California 



Fort Steilacoom, Wash- 

 ington. 



Puget Sound, Washington 



do 



do 



Eagle Lake, California 



Big Bend of Truckee, 

 Nevada. 



Fresno, California 



(•!)■ 



Humboldt River, Nevada 



John Day River, Oregon . 



Fresno, California 



Seattle, Washington , 



do 



do 



do 



When 

 collected. 



July 



-, 1877 

 -,1867 



,1879 



From whom received. 



Lieut. R. S. Williamson, 



U. S. A. 

 Lieut. W. P. Trowbridge, 



U.S.A. 



H. Hemphill 



Dr. Geo. Suckle y, 



U.S.A. 



A. Campbell 



H. W. Henshaw. 

 R. Ridgway 



Gustav Eisen 



Dr. C. B. R. Kennerly . . . . 

 Lieut. W. P. Trowbridge, 



U.S.A. 

 Capt.C.Bendire, U.S.A . 



G. Eisen 



O.B. Johnson 



do 



do 



do 



Nature of 

 specimen. 



Alcoholic 

 type, 

 do. 



do. 

 do. 



do. 

 do. 

 do. 

 do. 

 do. 



do. 

 do. 

 do. 



do. 

 do. 

 do. 

 do. 



do. 

 do. 



Mission Hci. do Mexique, p. 572. 



