CROCODILIANS, LIZARDS, AND SNAKES. 



841 



Associated with these specimeus from the same locality is a young 

 C. gtdtafm of 550 mm. length. It displayed all the characters of the 

 adult, and does not vary in the direction of the C. spiloides, as do the 

 young" of the present species. 



Coluber quadrivittatus Holhrook. 



Catalogue 

 No. 



13778 

 4709 



Number 

 of speci- 

 mens. 



Locality. 



"When 

 collected. 



Punta Rossa, Florida . 

 Micanopy, Florida 



Georgetown, South Caro- 

 lina. 



Society Hill, South Caro- 

 lina. 



St. Simons Island, Georgia 



Georgiana, P'lorida j 



St. Simons Island, Georgia 



Newbern, North Carolina. 



Palatka, Florida 



Arlington, Florida 



Georgiana, Florida 



Gainesville, Florida 



do 



Arlington, Florida 



Georgiana, Florida 



Gainesville, Florida 



...do 



Arlington, Florida 



Gainesville, Florida 



Arlington, Florida 



Georgiana, Florida 



Orange Hammock, De 

 Soto County, Florida. 



....do ; 



Dec. 



May — , 1878 



, 1880 



, 1880 



April—, 1878 



From whom received. 



Nature of 

 specimen. 



CW-Ward | Alcoholic. 



Prof. L. Agassiz Alcoholic 



type. 

 do. 



do. 



William "Wittfield. 



, 1880 



, 1880 



, 1879 



April 7,' 1881 

 April— ,1878 



G. Brown Goode . . 

 William Wittfleld. 



James Bell 



do 



G. Brown Goode . . 

 WiUiam Wittfleld. 



James Bell 



...-do 



F. C. Goode 



James Bell 



G. Brown Goode . . 

 William Wittfleld. 

 William Palmer. . . 



R. Ridgway. 



do. 



do. 



do. 



do. 



do. 



do. 



do. 



do. 

 Cast. 

 Alcoholic. 



do. 



do. 



do. 



do. 



do. 



do. 



do. 



do. 



The habitat of this species is the southeastern quarter of the Austro- 

 riparian subregion and the Floridan subregion. Its western range is 

 not yet certainly defined. It does not occur in Kansas and Utah, as 

 stated by Yarrow. 



COLUBER SPILOIDES Dumeril and Bibron. 



Coluber spiloides Dumkril and Bibron, Erp. (ren.. VII, 1854. ]>. 269. — GCnther, 



Cat. Col. Snakes Brit. Mas., 1858, p. 901. 

 Coluber obsolefus Boulenger, part, Cat. Snakes Brit. Mns., II, 1894, p. 50. 

 Coluber obsoletus coiifinis Cope, Check-list N. Amer. Batr. Kept., 1875, p. 39. 

 Coluber obsoletus spiloides CoPE, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XI, 1 88, p. 387. 



Head large, broad; neck and body compressed. Posterior frontals 

 large; anterior considerably smaller; occipitals broad, large. Eye 

 rather large; center over the line joining the fourth and iifth labials; 

 orbits above the whole of the fourth and fifth labials. Upper labials 

 eight, penultimate the largest, last one large ; inferior twelve or eleven, 

 posterior small. Kostrils nearly terminal. Rostral rather wide. 



Scales rather short. Outer si.x; rows smooth, seven to eleven median 

 rows obsoletely carinated. Exterior row rather larger, rest nearly 

 uniform. 



Ground color ash-gray. A series of from thirty to thirty-five dorsal 

 blotches, and twelve on the tail. These blotches are dark chocolate- 



