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Of these species tlie C. cursor and G. ihiboca are not Liunsean, and the 

 C. viperinus and G. natrix belong to a genus which had been already 

 established, the Natrix of Laureuti. We are therefore restricted to six 

 species in our search for the type of the genus Goluber. They received 

 generic names at tlie following dates: 



C. melanocepliala; Tantilla Baird and Girard, 1853. 



C. a'sculapu; Coluber Giiuther, 1858. 



C. canus; Pseiidaspis Cope, 1864. 



C. mycterizans; Passerita Gray, 1825. 



C. cyaneus; uuidentified. 



C. carmatus; Herpetudryas Boie, 1826. 



Giinther in 1858 selected the G. cesculapii as the type of Goluher, and 

 to this species that generic name must be applied. 



Mr. Garman, of Cambridge, has followed Dumeril in using the name 

 Goluber for the G. constrictor Linnaeus. The way in which this conclu- 

 sion has been reached is as follows : 



The first author whom we have to consider is Fitzinger, whose Neue 

 Classification der Eeptilieu appeared in June, 1826, in Vienna. Sev- 

 enty-one species of Goluber are enumerated in this work (page 57), of 

 which only twenty-two are of Linnsean origin, and to these we must 

 therefore confine our attention. In the following list of them the names 

 of the genera to which these species were successively referred is given, 

 and the date of each : 



C. minervw (unidentified). 



C. typlilus, Opheomorplius Cope, 1862; Xenodon Boie and Schlegel, 1837. 



C. cyaneus Linnaeus (unidentified). 



C. constrictor, Bascanium Baird and Girard, 1853. 



C. saturninus. Herpetodryas Boie, 1826. 



C. reginw, Liophis Wagler, 1830. 



C. milinris (unidentified). 



C. cohella, Opheomorplius Cope, 1862 ; Liophis Wagler, 1830. 



C. rhombeaius, Psarnmophylax Wagler, 1830. 



C. domesticus, the same as 



C. hippocrepis, Zamenis AVagler, 1830. 



C. lineatus, Lygophis Cope, 1862; Bromicus Bibron, 1853. 



C. pethola, Oxyrrhopus Wagler, 1830. 



C. vittatus, Tropidonotns Kuhl, 1826. 



C. cestivus, Herpetodryas Wagler; Dumdril and Bibron, 1853. 



C. scaher, Dasypeltis Wagler, 1830. 



C. ordinatus, Eutwnia Baird and Girard, 1853; Tropidonotns Kuhl, 1826. 



C. siriatulus, Haldea Baird and Girard, 1853. 



C. natrix, Tropidonotus Kuhl, 1826. 



C. stolatus, Amplnesma Dumeril, 1853; Tropidonotns Kuhl, 1826. 



C, sauriia, Eutamia Baird and Girard, 1853; Tropidonotus Kuhl, 1826. 



C. fasciatus, Tropidonotus Kuhl, 1826. 



The latest date only can be considered in this connection, since the 

 names of genera are retained in accordance with the priority of date 

 of each. The latest date at which species of this restricted division 

 Goluber are referred to other genera is 1853. In that year four of them 



