922 



REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1898. 

 Ojjhibolit-s (/rhiliis boylii Baird and Girard — Coutiiiued. 



U.S. 



N. M. 



No. 



18090 

 18091 

 18092 



18093 



18U94 

 J 8095 



Sex 

 and 

 age. 



Locality . 



Three Rivers, California . 

 .do. 



Soutli Fork, Kern Kiver, 25 miles above 

 Kernvilli', Calilornia. 



Ea.st Fork, Kaweah Kiver, California 



Overton, Muddy Valley, Nevada 



do 



Altitude. 



Feet. 



1,700 



When 

 collected. 



July 27,1891 

 ...do.. 



July 9, 1891 



July 27, 1891 

 May 6, 1891 

 do 



Prom whom 

 received. 



Palmer. 



Fisher. 



do. 



Bailey. 



Merriam. 



Bailey. 



Catalogue 



No. I 



Locality. 



16341 San Diego, California 



16521 do 



22196 Fort Huachuca, Arizona 



From whom received. 



C. R. Orcutt. 



do. 

 Fisher. 



OPHIBOLUS GETULUS CALIFORNI.^ De Blainville. 



Ophihohts californiw Cope, Check-list N. Amer. Batr. Rept., 1875, p. 37. 



Coluber {Opliis) California'. De Blainvillk, Anu. Mas. cVHist. Nat. Paris, III, 1834, 



p. 60, pi. XXVII, figs. 1, la, 1/;.— lUiRi) and Girard, Cat. N. Amer. Rept., 



Pt. 1, Serp., 1853, p. 153. 

 Coronella California'. Dumeril and Bibron, Erp. Gen., VII, 1854, p. 623. 

 Ophiholus (jetulus eisenii Yarrow, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., V, 1882, p. 439. 

 Coronella getiilus californica Jan, Icon. G6n. Ophid., Pt. 14, pi. v, fig. 3. 

 Lampropeltis nitida Van Denburgh, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., 1895, pi. xiv, p. 143, 



Plates of the head similar to those of 0. getulus hoyli : One anteor- 

 bital, three postorbitals, seven upper labials, ten lower labials, twenty- 

 three rows of scales on body; difference, so far as the head is concerned, 

 being an increase in number of postorbitals and lower labials. 



Color markedly different 

 from the type of 0. gctulus 

 hoyli. The first white an- 

 nulus, three scales wide, 

 begins eleven scales posteri- 

 orly to the parietals. There 

 is then an interval of five 

 scales to the third white 

 annulus, which, instead of 

 passing down toward the 

 abdomen, expands at the 

 base and joins an oval ring 

 eight scales wide trans- 

 versely to the body and 

 eight scales long posteriorly. Eight scales behind this ring a longitu- 

 dinal white line one and one-half scales wide commences, which extends 

 the length of body to opposite the two hundred and seventh abdominal 

 scute, or about the thirtieth from the anus. This line is absolutely 

 continuous, but breaks off into annuli at the place mentioned. There 

 are then a triangular white blotch, three annuli, another blotch, and 



Fig. 231. 



0PH1B0LU.S GETULUS CALIFORNIA DE BlAINVILLE. 



Fresno, California. 



Cat. No. 117SS, U.S.N.M. 



