CROCODILIANS, LIZARDS, AND SNAKES. 

 Osceohi doUata clerica Baird and (lirard. 



889 



OSCEOLA DOLIATA TEMPORALIS Cope. 



Ophibolus doliatus temporaliH Cope, American Naturalist, XXV'II, 1893, p. 1068, 

 1)1. XXV, fiji. 4. 



Fig. 213. 



Osceola doliata temporalis Cope. 



= 1. 



Both sides of head. 



Delaware. 



Museum, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia. 



OSCEOLA DOLIATA DOLIATA Linnaeus. 



Ophibolus doliatus doliatus Cope, Check-list N. Amer. Batr. Kept., 1875, p. 37 ; Proc. 



U. S. Nat. Mus., XI, 1888,p. 383.— Cope, Amer. Naturalist, XXVII, 1893, p. 1067. 

 Coluher doliatus LiNN.EU.s, Syst. Nat., I, 1766, p. 379. — Harlan, Jour. Acad. Nat. 



Sci. Phila., 1827, p. 362. 

 Coronella doliata Holbrook, N. Amer. Herpet., Ill, 1842, p. 105, pi. 24.— Dumeril 



and BiBRox, Erp. G^n., VII, p. 621.— GCntiier, Cat. Col. Snakes Brit. Mus., 



1858, p. 41.— BouLENGEK, Cat. Snakes Brit. xMiis., II, 1894, p. 205. 

 Ophibolus doliatus Baird and Girard, Cat. N. Amer. Kept., Pt. 1, Serpents, 1853, 



p. 89. 



Head little distinct, muzzle not depressed or proniinont. Rostral 

 plate slightly visible from above; frontal widened forward. Tem- 

 porals 2-2-3. 



Dorsal saddle spots completed at sides, the border not encroach- 

 ing on the gastrosteges, separated by yellow intervals. Intermediate 

 spots large, dark, bordered partly on scales and partly on gastrosteges. 

 Black spots or gastrosteges opposite dorsal saddles sometimes separ- 

 rate, sometimes united on the middk' line. First yellow interval touch- 

 ing i)arietal i)lates. Head reddish above, bounded posteriorly by a 

 transverse border. No postocular yellow stripe, sometimes a black 

 postocular border to the red of the top of the head. Superciliairy 

 spots present, in five specimens ccmthieiit into a cross band. Prefontal 

 brown cross band present in the same four specimens. The number of 



