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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1898. 



and sometimes these also disappear. In the type specimen the dorsal 

 stripe is represented by a half-inch posterior to the head; no spots or 

 markings on the gastrosteges. 



In seven specimens the proportion of the tail to the total length is 

 as follows: Cat. No. 10589, two and three-fourths, two and four-fifths; 

 Cat. No. 10693, two and four-fifths; Cat. No. 11987, two and five-sixths, 

 two and nine-tenths, two and nine-tenths; Cat. No. 12590, three. 



This species is distributed over Florida generally, and ranges as far 

 westward as Mobile, Alabama, from which point specimens were sent 

 me by my friend. Dr. Joseph Corson, United States Army. It is the 

 most slender species of the genus, and is characterized by the form of 

 the first row of scales. These are narrow, differing very little from 

 those of the other rows. Like them they are strongly keeled, and are 

 notched at the apex. The form originally described has no dorsal 

 stripe. Specimens of this kind were sent me from Volusia. Specimens 

 from Georgiana, belonging to the U. S. National Museum, and from 

 Mobile have a dorsal stripe with blackish borders. Two Volusia speci- 

 mens have seven superior labials, while one has eight. Two specimens 

 from Mobile have eight superior labials, and ten from other i)arts of 

 Florida have the same. In one of the specimens from Georgiana the 

 colors, including the stripes, are obscure. 



Eutania sackenii Kennicott. 



EUTiENIA SAURITA Liniiceus. 



Eutania saurUa Cope, Check-list N. Amer. Batr. Kept., 1875, p. 40. 



Coluber saurita Linn.eus, Syst. Nat., I, 1766, p. 385; Syst. Nat., 13th ed., I, Pt. 3, 



1788, p. 1109.— Harlan, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila.,Y, 1827,p. 352.— Stoker, 



Rep. Kept. Mass., 1829, p. 229.— Thompson, Hist. Vermont, 1842, p. 115. 

 LeptopMs sauritHS Holbrook, N. Amer. Herpt., IH, 1842, p. 21, pi. iv, — DeKav, 



New York Fauna, 1842, p. 47, pi. xi, fig. 24. 

 Tropidonotns .saHrito Schlegel, Ess. Phys. Serp., I, p. 169; II, p. 323. — Dumeril 



and BiBRON, Erp. G6n., VII, 1854, p. .586. — Gunther, Cat. Col. Snakes Brit. 



Mus., 1858, p. 72.— BouLENGER, part, Cat. Snakes Brit. Mas,, I, 1893, p. 212. 

 Eutainia saurita Baird and Girard, Cat. N. Amer. Kept., Pt. 1, Serpents, 1853, 



p. 24. 



Elongate and slender j tail generally longer, sometimes equal, one- 



