976 



REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1898. 



The color in life is said to be brick-red above, tinged with green on 

 the sides, and uniform coj^per color beneath. 



Cat. Nos. Gastrosteges. ITrosteges. Scales. Length. Tail. 



mm. mm,. 



1314 (type of N. vouchii) 150 + 1 . 85. 25. 



1319 154 + 1. 71. 25. 



10732 124+1. 74. 24. 898. 242. 



12030 154 + 1. 79. 23. 



12992 150 + 1. 64. 25. 



13353 150 + 1. (?) 



13572 134+1. (?) 23. 



As may be derived from the above, I can not distinguish specimens 

 from I^ueva Leon in northeastern Mexico, types of Nerodia couchii 

 Baird and Girard, from the JV^. /. erythrogaster. 



Fig. 253. 



Nathix fasciata erythrogaster Shaw. 



=^1. 



Jackson, North Carolina. 



Cat. No. 1347, U.S.N.M. 



A singular form of this subspecies was taken by Dr. H. C. Yarrow 

 in Virginia (Cat. No. 13572). It is steel gray above, and dirty white 

 below, the belly with gray punctulations increasing in density poste- 

 riorly. Traces of dark gray spots on the ends of the gastrosteges, most 

 distinct on the posterior third of the length. No head markings. 

 Another peculiar specimen is Cat. No. 10732, from Florida, in which 

 district tlie subspecies seems to be rare. The median dorsal line is 

 crossed by pairs of dark brown cross-bands, the spaces they inclose 

 representing the spaces between the spots of the JSf. s. sipedon. They 



