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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1898. 



0. d, doUata, clerica, etc., as shown in the analytical table of the sub- 

 species. Their complete fusion with the black rings, and the oblitera- 

 tion of the lateral closing lines of the saddle spots would give us the 

 0. d. annulata. The division of these median spots on the middle liue, 

 and their transposition to the sides, with the elevation of the lateral 

 closing lines of the saddles to a point above the gastrosteges, would 

 give us the 0. d. doliata. 



This subspecies is well sustained by sixteen specimens in the U. S. 

 National Museum. 



There are four partly distinct types of head coloration among these 

 specimens. In Cat. Nos. 13008, 12925, 8345 the front is black to the end 

 of the muzzle. In Cat. Nos. 1846, 2296, 4291 the end of the muzzle only 

 is red. In Cat. Nos. 303 and 7850 the top of the head is reddish brown, 

 and superciliary spots are present. In Cat. Nos. 13361, 13380, and an 

 unnumbered specimen the top of the head is a uniform red or reddish 

 gray; and in Cat. No. 21163 the upper surface is red, except the frontal 

 plate and a broad band to the black collar, which are black. In this 

 specimen there is no loreal plate on either side. There are only nine- 

 teen rows of scales, and the superior temporal of the first row is abnor- 

 mally small. In these respects it approaches the 0. elapsoidea. 



Upper labials. Gastrosteges. Urosteges. Scales. Length. Tail. 



Cat. Nos. 



4291 7. 210-fl. 44. 



21163 7. 183+1. 44. 



13380 7. 209+1. 48. 



inm. 

 21. 692. 

 19. 

 21. 762. 



mm. 

 95. 



115. 



Osceola doliaia sysptJa Cope. 



Locality. 



Republican River, Kansas. 



Appomattox County, Vir- 

 ginia. 



Fort Towson, Arkansas . . . 



Prairie Mer Rouge, Loui- 

 siana. 



New Orleans, Louisiana . . . 



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Apache, Arizona 



Louisiana '. 



Independence, Missouri . . . 

 Abbeville. South Carolina . 



Wheatland, Indiana 



Richlauri, Illinois 



Raleigh, North Carolina . . . 



From whom received. 



Dr. W. A. Hammond, U.S.A. 



Dr. L. A. Edwards, D". S. A 

 J ames Fairie 



Dr. R. W. Shuieldt, U. S. A. 



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H. W. Henshaw 

 J. W. Wallace . . 

 Dr. ,T. G. Cooper. 



Robert Ridgway 



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C. S. Brimlev 



Nature of specimen. 



Alcoholic, 

 do. 



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 do. 



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 Type. 

 Alcoholic. 



Most of the specimens of this subspecies are enumerated in Yarrow's 

 Checklist, under the head of Ophibolus d. doliatus. 



