CROCODJLIANS, LIZARDS, AND SNAKES. 



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This subspecies inhabits the entire peninsula of Florida, along with the 

 typical one, which displays its full characters in the same region. The C. 

 (J. sellatus is evidently annectent to the C. rosacens of southern Florida. 



Colither (/uttatua sellatus (Jope. 



COLUBER ROSACEUS Cope. 



Coluber rosaveus Cope, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XI, 1888, p. 388, pi. xxx\ i, lig. :>. 

 Voluher Iwius? Boulengkr, Cat. Snakes Brit. Mus., II, 1894, p. 49, 



Head oval, distinct from body. Rostral plate visible from above; 

 internasals much shorter than prefrontals. Frontal wider than in 



Fig. 191. 



('OLUBER EOSACEUS C'OPB. 

 = 1. 



Key West, Florida. 



Cat. No. 14418, U.S.N. M. 



allied species, as broad as it is long, with straight anterior border. 

 Parietals longer than muzzle from frontal plate. Loreal longer than 

 high; preocular not reaching frontal, but separated by the very nar- 

 row anterior extremity of the superciliary. Temporals 2-3-4, the pos- 

 terior small. Scales of body smooth, rather wide, the first row a little 

 wider than the second. Postgeneials smaller than pregeneials, but 

 distinct from gular scales. Gastrosteges bent up at the sides. Tail 

 probably long as in G. quadrivittatus^ but the end is lost. The uros- 

 teges remaining number 47. 



The ground color of the superior surfaces, in the rather fresh alco- 

 holic specimen, is buff, each scale with a dusky band within and 

 parallel to the border, surrounding a buff' center. This band may be 

 broken up into spots. The greater part of the superior surfaces is 

 occupied by a series of vermilion-tinted pink spots, which extend 

 across the back to within two or three scales of the gastrosteges, thus 



