CROCODILIANS, LIZARDS, AND SNAKES. 

 Carphophiops amocnus Say — Continued. 



737 



Catalogxie 

 No. 



10720 



10750 



13301\ 



133U2/ 



14437 



17445\ 



17554/ 



19485 



Nnmber 

 of speci- 

 mens. 



Locality. 



Salem Creek, North Caro- 

 lina. 



Clearwater, Florida 



/Alexandria County, Vir- 

 \ ginia. 



"Wythe County, Virginia. . 



Dunn Loring, Virginia . .. 



Insane asylvim, District 

 of Columbia. 



"When 

 collected. 



— , 1881 



From ■whom received. 



Dr. J. A. Kite, U. S. N 

 S.T.Walker 



G.D. Figgins 



Dr. J. "W. Blackburn. 



Nature 

 of speci- 

 men. 



Alcoholic. 



do. 

 do. 

 do. 

 do. 

 do. 



[Form heleno!.] 



2183 



12046 



8853 



8792 



1874 



2183 



12128 



10656 



19257 



19486 



Southern Illinoia 



Mount Carmel, Illinois 



Morton, Ohio 



Augusta, Georgia 



Mississippi 



Southern Illinoia 



Arlington, Virginia 



Wheatland, Indiana 



Wyandotte, Indiana 



Insane asylum, District 

 of Columbia. 



Apr. — , 1881 



R. Kennicott 



Lucien M. Turner . . 



A. H. Little 



William Phillips . . . 

 Dr.B.F.Shumard.. 



K. Kennicott 



William Palmer 



Eobert Eidgway . . . 



G.P.Merrill 



Dr. J. W. Blackburn 



Alcoholic, 

 do. 

 do. 

 do. 

 do. 

 do. 

 do. 

 do. 

 do. 

 do. 



CARPHOPHIOPS VERMIS Kennicott. 



Carphophiops vermis Kennicott, Cope, Check-list N. Amer. Batr. Rept., 1875, p. 34. 

 Celufa vermis Kennicott, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pliila,, 1859, p. 99.. 



Scuta as in C. amcenus, except that there is but one scale of the second 

 row of temporals. This scale bounds ijosteriorly both the first tem- 

 poral and the last labial j a small one 

 below it extends over a part of the 

 posterior border of the last labial. 



Larger than C. amcenus. Scales in 

 thirteen longitudinal rows. Color 

 above lustrous purplish bla<;k, much 

 darker than in C. amcenus. Abdo- 

 men pale yellowish flesh color (prob- 

 ably brighter in life), this color ex- 

 tending to the third lateral row of 

 dorsal scales. 



Though possessing the general 



Fig. 152. 



Carphophiops vermis Kennicott. 



X 2.4. 



form of C. amcenus, this differs strik- 



ingly in the larger size, darker color of the upper parts, and the exten- 

 sion of the flesh color of the abdomen over to the third lateral row of 

 scales; in C. amcenus this color extends only to the second row. 



