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Connecticut. 



Cat. No. 7224, U.S.N.M. 



CROCODILIANS, LIZARDS, AND SNAKES. 1021 



third the total leugth. Uead quite distinct from body, elongate, flat. 

 Orbitisl plates, 1-3; temporals, 1-2; superior labials seven, those 

 beneath the orbit longer than high. Scales in nineteen rows, very 

 narrow, strongly keeled, and notched at the apex, those of the inferior 

 row diftering only Irom the others in being a little deeper at the base. 



Color about liglit chocolate. Three stripes of uniform yellow. Below 

 the lateral stripes, liglit brown. Abdomen greenish white. A broad 

 vertebral line of sulphur yellow, occui^ying one and two half rows of 

 scales, the line margined for half a scale on each side with black. 

 A lateral stripe on each side along the third and fourth rows of 

 lateral scales ; the scales 

 in the exterior edges of 

 this stripe occasionally 

 speckled or margined 

 with black. Skin be 

 tween the scales black, 

 with numerous small 



yellow lines, half a scale rig- 276. 



long, seen only in dilating egt^ia saubita linn^kus. 



the skin. In some spe- 

 cies the black shows as 

 a series of lateral spots. 

 The usual double spot on the line of union of the occipitUls. Orbital 

 plates yellowish white, as are the lower part and sides of the head and 

 throat. 



In a specimen from Westport, Xew York, there is a well-detined black 

 line under the lateral stripe. In cue from Londongrove, Pennsylvania, 

 two rows of quadrate spots are visible on the anterior part of the body 

 as in E. sirtalis. Spots are not visible in any other specimen. 



The scuta, scutelhe, and lengths of body and tail in inches are given 

 in three specimens by Baird and Girard, as follows : 



Cat. Nos. Locality. Gastrostegcs. Urosteges. Length. Tail. 



782. Carlisle, Pennsylvania 156. 115. 35. 12^. 



Do 157, 118. 26i. 9. 



? Washington, District of Columbia 157. 118. 32i. 9. 



The lengths of the tail in fourteen specimens are as follows: Cat. No. 

 685, two and three fourths; Cat. No. 12369, two and four-iiftlis: Cat. No. 

 795, two and six-sevenths; Cat. No. 987, two and seven eighths; Cat. 

 No. 782, two and seven-eighths; Cat. No. 9997, two and nine-tenths; 

 Cat. No. 13357, two and nine-tenths; Cat. No. 9991, two and fifteen-six- 

 teenths; Cat. No. 7223, two and nineteen-twentieths; Cat. No. 8953, 

 three; Cat. No. 797, three; Cat. No. 7224, three; Cat. No. 783, three and 

 one-fourteenth; Cat. No. 5451, three and one-eighth. Of these, three 

 with the shortest tails — Cat. Nos. 797, 8953, and 5451 — are young 

 individuals. 



. The superior labials are constantly seven in twenty-six .specimens 

 examined. 



