CROCODILIANS, LIZARDS, AND SNAKES. 



791 



The remains of a Zamenis were found by Mr. C. M. Wheatley in the 

 bone cave at Port Kennedy, Pennsylvania, which furnished so many 

 species of extinct Mammalia. 



ZAMENIS CONSTRICTOR Linnaeus. 



Zamenis constrictor Boulenger, Cat. Snakes Brit. Mus., 1, 1893, p. 387. 



Coluber constrictor Linn.eus, Syst. Nat., I, 1766, p. 385. — Gmelin, Linn. Syst. Nat., 

 13tlied,, I, Pt. 3, 1788, p. 1109.— Harlan, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., V, 

 1827, p. 3l8.— SCHLEGEL, Ess. Phys. Serp., 1837, p. 133, pL v, figs. 3, 4.— Storer, 

 Report Rept. Mass., 1839, p. 225.— Holbrook, N. Amer. Herp., Ill, 1842, p. 55, 

 pi. XIV.— Thompson, Hist. Vermont, 1842, p. 117. — DeKay, New York Fauna 

 Rept., 1842, p. 35, pi. x, fig. 20. — Garman, Memoirs Mus. Comp. Zool. Cam- 

 bridge, p. 41, pi. IV, fig. 3. 



Hierophis constrictor Bonaparte, Fauna Italica, L, 1841 (novien nudum). 



Coryphodon constrictor Dum^:ril and Bibron, Erp. G^n., VII, 1854, p. 183. — GuN- 

 THER, Cat. Col. Snakes Brit. Mus., 1858, p. 108. 



Coluber flaviventris Say, in Long's Exped. Rocky Mta., II, 1823, p. 185. 



Bascanium constrictor Baird and Girard, Cat. N. Amer. Rept., 1853, p. 93. — Cope, 

 Check-list N. Amer. Batr. Rept., 1875, p. 40; Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1893, p. 623. 



Bascanion flavirentris Baird and Girard, Cat. N. Amer. Rept., 1853, p. 96. 



Coryphodon flavirentris Hallowell, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1856, p. 241. 



Bascanion fremontii Baird and Girard, Cat. N. Amer. Rept., 1853, p. 95. 



Bascanion foxii Baird and Girard, Cat. N. Amer. Rept., 1853, 96. 



Bascanion vetustus Baird and Girard, Cat. N. Amer. Rept., 1853, p. 97. — Girard, 

 U.S. Expl. Ex., 1858, p. 127, pi. viii, figs. 12-19.— Cooper, Pac. R. R. Report, 

 XII, Pt. 2, 1860, p. 301. 



Bascanium constrictor retustum Cope, Check-list N. Amer. Batr. Rept., 1875, p. 40. — 

 Yarrow, U. S. G. Snrv. W. of 100th mer., V, 1875, p. 541. 



Frontal diminishing for half its length, lateral borders then parallel. 

 Center of eye over the fourth labial. In the adult, color varying from 



Fig. 171. 



Zamknis constrictor Linnjeus. 



= 1. 



Tioga County, New York. 



Cat. No. 719-J, U.S.N.M. 



lustrous pitch black to brownish green above, and beneath from green- 

 ish black, sometimes tinged with greenish white, to yellow. Chin and 



