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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1898. 



tail var'es from two and one-third times to nearly three times in the 

 total length. The twenty-two specimens measured run as follows: 

 Two aud one-third times in total length, Oat. No. 9586; two and two- 

 fifths, Cat. Nos. 1447, 12027; two and one-half, Cat. Nos. 1502, 1460, 

 1433, 1646; two and three-fifths, Cat. Nos. 1439, 9692, 7196; two and 

 two-thirds, Cat. Nos. 7205, 1449, 11401 ; two and three-fourths, Cat. Nos. 

 4854, 1446, 11825; two and four-fifths. Cat. No. 1436a; two and five- 

 sixths, Cat. No. 1435; two and five sevenths. Cat. No. 1437: two and 

 six-sevenths. Cat. No. 7197 ; two and niueteen-twentieths. Cat. No. 14366. 



Baird and Girard have proposed certain individuals as a distinct 

 species under the name of Leptophis majalis, on account of the some- 

 what shorter tall. Individuals from New Mexico hq,ve shorter tails 

 thau those from the Atlantic region, but the gradation in length is 

 complete. Floridan specimens differ /rom others in having the keels 

 of the scales stronger and in having the second row strongly keeled 

 like the third, while it is smooth in other specimens; but no other 

 character coincides with this one. 



I have described a peculiar habit of this species.^ 



Cyclophis cestivvs Linnceus, 



Locality. 



Kemper County, Missis- 

 sippi. 



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Cimarron River, New 

 Mexico. 



Prince George County, 

 Maryland. 



Tarboro, North Carolina.. 



Indianola, Texas 



Eagle Pass, Texas 



New Ca.ssweli, Texas 



San Antonio, Texas 



Matamoras, Texas 



Indianola, Texas 



Gloucester County, Vir- 

 ginia. 



St. Simons Island, Georgia 



Savannah, Georgia 



Southern Illinois 



Pensacola, Florida 



New Jersey 



Grand Couteau, Louisiana 



Fort Smith, Arkansas 



Neosho Falls, Kansas 



Western Missouri 



Anderson, South Carolina 



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Fort Bliss, New Mexico . . 



Aufjusta, Georgia 



Kiu.ston, North Carolina.. 



Arlington, Florida 



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Fort Macon, North Caro- 

 lina. 



Mount Carmel, Illinois 



Arlington, Virginia 



Old Fort Cobb, New Mex- 

 ico. 



Georgiana, Florida . 



When 

 cjllected. 



May —,1878 

 May —,1871 



Nov. — , 1881 

 Sept. 25, 1881 



From whom received. 



Lieutenant Couch, U.S.A. 



William Phillips. 

 H. W. Welsher... 



F.C.Goode 



G. Brown Goode . 

 Dr. H. C. Yarrow. 



L. M. Turner. 

 E. H. Hawley 

 £. Palmer 



W. Wittfleld 



Nature of 

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Alcoholic. 



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' American Naturalist, VI, p. 309. 



