926 



REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1898. 



Fig. 233. 



CONTIA MITIS BAIRD AND GlRARD. 

 X 1.5. 



San Jose, California. 



Cat. No. 2034, U.S.N.M. 



parallel, posteriorly very acute. Occipitals elongated, truncated pos- 

 teriorly, slightly convex exteriorly. Postfrontals large and angular. 

 Prefrontals subangular, much smaller. Eostral well developed, broad, 

 but slightly produced between the prefrontals. Nasal quadrangular, 

 longer than high, with nostril in the middle, a little nearer the anterior 

 than posterior edge of the plate. Loreal elongated and quadrangular, 



situated above the second labial. An- 

 teorbital angular and elevated, situated 

 above the third labial. Postorbital an- 

 gular, larger than the anteorbital, situ- 

 ated above the commissure between 

 the fourth and fifth labials. Supercil- 

 iaries proportionally small and oblong. 

 A large and angular elongated tem- 

 poral shield. Upper labials, seven; 

 anterior and posterior ones smaller; 

 third and fourth beneath the eye; lower 

 labials, seven: fourth largest. Posterior pair of mental scutellaj very 

 small. Two scutelhe on each side, along the fifth, sixth, and seventh 

 infralabials. 



Body slender, subcylindrical, broader than deep. Scales proportion- 

 ally large, subelliptical, posteriorly rounded or subtruncated. Those 

 of the exterior row conspicuously broader. Tail short, conical, and 

 tapering. 



Deep chestnut-brown above, with two longitudinal light bands, one 

 on each side of the back, below which is a series of black dots. Scales 

 minutely dotted with black. Anterior half of the scutellaj black; pos- 

 terior half light yellow. 



The lighter bauds of the back cover the fourth exterior row of dorsal 

 scales; the series of black dots is immediately beneath on the third 

 row of scales. Tip of scales of exterior row black. Head above, black- 

 ish brown; beneath, mottled with black, on a yellowish green ground. 

 The abdomen is regularly and transversely barred with black and light 

 yellow. 



Cat. Kos. 

 2034 . . . 

 8075 ... 



Upper labials. Gastrosteges. Urosteges. Scales. 

 7. Ifi7-fl. 31. 15. 



7. 154 + 1. 35. 15. 



Contia mitia Jiaird and Girard. 



Catalogue 

 No. 



2034 



8075 

 2036 

 11751 

 11777 



Number 

 of speci- 

 mens. 



liOi'ality. 



San Jose, California. 



Oregon 



Petaluma, California 



Fresno, California 



do 



Baird, Shasta County, 



California. 

 Butte County, California. 



When 

 collected. 



,1899 

 ,1899 



From whom received. 



Dr. J. L. LeConte. 



E. Samuels 



Gustav Eisen . 

 do 



C. Townsend .. 



Nature of 

 specimen. 



Alcoliolic 



type. 

 Alcoholic. 



do. 



do. 



do. 



do. 



do. 



