930 



REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1898. 



men from the same locality tlie thir^ labial only enters the eye on one 

 side, and the second and third on the other, in the nsual way. 



In this species the loreal plate makes various approaches to the bor- 

 der of the orbit, in some instances entering it, according to Professor 

 Jan, who figures it in a specimen from Tennessee. He regards the 

 character as indicating a species which he calls Cemophora copei; but 

 in a Floridian specimen the character is so intermediate as to show that 

 it has no systematic value. 



The Cemophora coccinea is a species of the Austroriparian region, but 

 it has not been found in the Texan district, nor does it ascend the 

 Mississippi River as far as the region extends. It is especially abun- 

 dant in Florida. 



Cemophora coccinea Blumenhach. 



Catalogue 

 No. 



Number 

 of speci- 

 mens. 



Locality. 



When 

 collected. 



From whom received. 



Nature of 

 specimen. 



6298 

 2185 



2189 

 2307 

 5221 

 9688 

 10803 

 9267 

 10741 

 11430 

 12536 

 14828 

 16951 



Anderson County, South 

 Carolina. 



Fort George, Arkansas ... 



Prairie Mer Rouge, Lou- 

 isiana. 



Monticello, Mississippi... 



New Orleans, Louisiana . . ' 



Athens, Alabama 



Arlington, Florida May— , 187i 



Sout h Carolina 



Clear Water, Florida 



Columbia, South Carolina. 



Georgiana, Florida 



St. Margaret's. Anne 

 Arundel County, Mary- 

 land. 



Miss C. Paine. 



Jas. Fairie . 



W. M. Stewart 



G. Brown Goode 



Dr. Geo. A. Moran . . 

 Capt. Wm. Holden. 



S.T.Walker 



Geo. Shoemaker 



G. B. Goode 



Wm. Wittfleld 



A. A. Stinchcomb.. 



Alcoholic 



type. 



Alcoholic. 



do. 



do. 

 do. 

 do. 

 do. 

 do. 

 do. 

 do. 

 do. 

 do. 

 do. 

 do. 



RHINOCHILUS Baird and Girard. 



Hhinoch iJ us Baird and Girard, Cat. Kept. N. Amer. Kept., Pt. 1, Serpents, 1853, 

 p. 120.— Cope, Check-list N. Amer. Batr. Rept., 1875, p. 36; Proc. Amer. 

 Phil. Soc, 1886, p. 487; Bull. U. S. Nat. Mas., No, 32, 1887, p. 152. 



Head subelliptical, pointed on the snout, and separated from the 

 body by a contracted neck. Rostral plate large, overhanging, but not 

 recurved above. Two i)airs of frontal plates. Two nasals; nostrils 

 intermediate. One loreal. One anterior orbital. Superciliaries large. 

 Scales smooth. Postabdominal scutella entire. Subcaudal scutellae 

 all undivided. 



Two species of this genus are known, as follows: 



Scales in twenty- three rows; labials eight; tail one- tenth total length; a dorsal 

 series of numerons square, black spots, separated by red spaces; sides black, 

 varied; belly white J>. lecontei. 



Scales in seventeen rows; labials eight; tail one-eighth total length; a few broad 

 and long cross bands on body above, extending to the borders of the belly. 



B. antonii.^ 



'Duges, Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc, 1886, p. 290. From Mazatlan, Mexico. 



