784 



REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1898. 

 Liopeltis vernalis DeKay — Continued. 



Catalogue 

 No. 



434 

 1472 

 9767 

 9095 



10800 

 337 

 358 



10003 



12530 

 11556 

 13654 

 13679 

 13715 

 13717 

 13718 

 14763 

 17420 

 22377 



22647 



Number 

 of speci- 

 mens. 



Locality. 



Mexico 



Columbus, Ohio 



Webster City, Iowa 



Merino Valley, New Mex- 

 ico. 



Chula, Virginia 



Fort Kearney, Kansas . . . 



do 



Florida Keys 



I Woods Hole, Massachu- 

 1 setts. 



Georgiana, Florida. 

 Auburn, Maine 



Des Moines, Iowa 



Kenosha, Wisconsin 



Mesilla Valley, New Mex- 

 ico. 

 Canada 



When 

 collected. 



—,1878 



July —,1875 



—1878 



From whom received. 



Charles Aldrirh 



Lieut. W. L. Carpenter, 



U. S. A. 



F. H. Cushing 



Dr. Cooper 



do 



Wesley an Univer s i t y , 



Middletown. 



W.Wittfleld. 



G. P. Merrill . 



R. Ellsworth Call . 

 C. W. Kiolimond . . 

 T. D. A. Cockerell. 



Dr. B. W. Evermann . 



Nature of 

 specimen. 



Alcoholic, 

 do. 

 do. 

 do. 



do. 

 do. 

 do. 

 do. 



do. 



do. 



do. 



do. 



CYCLOPHIS Gunther. 



CyclopMs Gunther, Cat. Colubr. Snakes. Brit. Mus., 1858, p. 119.— Cope, Bull. 



U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 32, 1887, p. 56. 

 Opheodrys Fitzinger, Systema Reptilium, 1843, p. 26, nomen nudum. — Cope, 



Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1860, p. 560. 

 Fhillophylophis Garman, Mem. Mus. Compar. Zool. Cambridge, p. 40. 



Head distinct, scuta normal. One nasal plate, one preocniar. Teeth 

 equal, smooth. Anal and caudal scuta divided. Scales keeled, bifos- 

 sate {C. ccstiviis). 



This genus, like Liopeltis, :s found in the temperate and tropical 

 regions of Asia, and in temperate North Aii?f ric.i only. In the Nearctic 

 realm its range is mainly the Austroriparian region; but it has been 

 taken in the southern part of the Central region, and it ranges also the 

 Carolinian district of the Eastern region. But one species is known 

 in the Western Hemisphere, which is characterized as follows : 



Scales in 17 rows; superior labials, 7; temporals, 1-2; tail two and one-half times 

 in total length. Green above; labials and below, light yellow C. oistivus 



CYCLOPHIS JESTIWUS Linnaeus. 



CyclopMs (vstivus Gunther, Cat. Colubr. Snakes Brit. Mus., 1858, p. 11.— Cope, 



Check-list N. Amer. Batr. Kept., 1875, p. 38. 

 Coluber wstii'its Lixn.eus, Syst. Nat., 1, 1766, p. 387.— Gmelin, Syst. Nat., 13th ed., 



I, Ft. 3, 1788, p. 1114.— Harlan, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., V, 1827. 

 Leptophis a'sUvus Bell, Zool. Journ., II, 1826, p. 329. — Holbrook, N. Amer. Herpt., 



Ill, 1842, p. 17, pi. III.— Baird and Girard, Cat. N. Amer. Kept., 1853, p. 106. 

 Herpefodryaa (estivus Dum^ril and Bibron, Erp. G6n., VII, 1854, p. 209. 

 Opheodrys astivus Fitzinger, Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1860, p. 560. 

 Angnis viridis Catesby, Nat. Hist. Carolina, II, 1743, p. 57, pi. Vii. 



Head elongate ovoid. Neck contracted. Frontal plate elongated, 

 subpentagonal, diminishing posteriorly, though not acute, Parietals 



