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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1898. 



OPHIBOLUS GETULUS GETULUS Linnaeus. 



Ophiholus r/ettihts getiilas Cope, Cbeck-list N. Amer. Jiatr. Rept., 1875, p. 37. 

 Coluber gcttilus Linn.eus, Syst. Nat., 1, 1766, p. 382.— Harlax, .Journ. Acad. xNat. 



Sci. Phila., V, 1827, p. 358.— Peale, Contr. Maclur. Lye, I, 1829, pi. v.— 



GiiNTiiER, Cat. Col. Snakes Brit. Mus., 1858, p. 249. 

 Fi^eudoddps (jeUdus Fitzinger, Neue Class. Rept., 1826, p. 56. 

 Coronella gedda Holbrook, N. Amer. Herp., Ill, 1842, p. 95, pi. 21. — Dumeril 



and BiHRON, Erp. Gt5n., VII, p. 617.— Jan, Icon. Gen. Opbid., Pt. 12, pi. vi, 



fig. l;Pt.l4, pi. V, fig. 1. 

 Angui-s annnlatm Catesby, Nat. Hist. Carolina, II, 1743, p. 52, pi. iii. 

 Ophiholus getuliis Baird and Girard, Cat. N. Amer. Rept., Pt. 1, 18.53, p. 85. 

 Laynpropeltis geiuhis Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1860, p. 2.55. 

 Ophiholus getulns uiger Yarrow, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., V, 1882, p. 438, 



Fig. 227. 



OPHIBOLUS GETULUS GETULUS LlNN^US. 



= 1. 



Newberu, North Carolina. 



Cat. No. 8077, U.S.N.M. 



Black, crossed by about thirty narrow, contiuuous yellow lines, wliicli 

 bifur(;ate on the flanks, the very obtuse angles embracing on each side 

 a series of very much elongated patches, and iu fact, by the union of 

 the branches with each other, dividing the back into a succession of 

 large black hexagons. 



Very similar in. general relations to 0. sayi, although the body 

 appears rather stouter, and the head and eyes somewhat larger iu pro 

 portion. The color above is deep lustrous black, crossed by about 

 thirty-three continuous yellow lines, the twenty-sixth opposite the 

 anus. These lines, which on the middle of the back are narrow, one- 

 half or one scale in width, widen rapidly till they meet the lateral 

 series of black blotches, when they extend longitudinally in either 



