CROCODILIANS, LIZARD8, AND SNAKES. 

 Eiitania proxima Suij — t'oiitimuMl. 



1025 



Catalogue 

 No. 



13001 



to 



1^070 



17952 



Niimbor 

 of speci- 

 mens. 



Iiocality. 



"When 

 collected. 



From whom received. 



Nature of 

 speciuieu. 



New ' )rleaus, Louisiana Dr. K. W. Slmfelilt Alcnliolic. 



I ! 



ilo. 



Veedersburji. Foiintiiin O. P. Hay 



County, Indiana. 



J7958 i Vicksbiirg, Mississippi ...j do 



17905 do ' do 



2232(5 j Kerrviile, Texas j Hy. Caudlin 



ir>:t70 New Orleans, Louisiana Dr. R. W. .Snutcldt 



15:i43 Matanioras, Mexico ! Dr. I). \T. Prentiss 



i7u:« ) 



to > Cameron County, Texas C. K. Worthen — 



17047 J 



do. 

 do. 



do. 

 do. 



do. 



Specimens referred, to this species said to be from North (Carolina, in 

 Yarrow's Check-list, are either the E. sanrita or are inaccurate as to 

 locality, 



EUTiENIA MEGALOPS Kennicott. 



Eiitania me<ialops Kennicott, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. , 1860, {>. 330. — Cope, 

 Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc, XXII, 1885, p. 173; Check-li.st N. Amer. P.atr. Kept., 

 1875, p. 41. 



Form shorter and stouter, with proportionally shorter tail than in 

 E.proxima^ which this species s]i,iilitly resembles. Tail one-fourth ot 

 the total length. Eye very 

 hirge, greater than in E. 

 proxima. First dorsal row 

 of scales broader, each 

 scale as high as long, and 

 less strongly carinated. 

 Dorsal strip narrow, cover- 

 ing one and less than two 

 half rows of scales. Color 

 unilorm brownish ash, 

 with the three longitudi- 

 nal strips whitish yellow. 

 Head olive ash. 



Color uniformdull brow- 

 nish ash or clay color, with 



the dorsaland lateral strips whitish yellow, Afew of the scales have nar- 

 row black spots on their edges, but these are not i)romiuent, and never 

 extend over a scale, api)earing as indistinct mottlings of black on the 

 ground color, always on the rows next the strips. Tiie head above is 

 light olive ash. The lateral strip is on the third and fourth rows, and is 

 narrower than in E. pro.ti))i<(, covering rather less than two scale.><. The 

 color below the lateral stripe is a little lighter than that of the back. 

 The exterior dorsal row is much wider than in any of the allied species, 

 each scale being as high as long. The second row is much narrower, 

 though a little wider than the third. The eye is strikingly large and 

 NAT MUS 98 05 



Fig. 278. 



EUT,?i.\IA MKGALOPS KENNICOTT 

 = 1. 



Tucson, Arizona. 



Cat. No. 96.=;, U.S.N. M. 



