1036 



EEPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1898. 



light scale borders indicate faintly the outlines of an inferior row of 

 lateral si)ots for about half the length. The belly is lead colored, with 



irregular black blotches 

 in the center of the gas- 

 trosteges, as in E. e. 

 vagrans. These are 

 wanting in front. Head 

 . black, except the rostral, 

 nasal, internasal, and 

 anterior parts of the 

 fourth, fifth, sixth, and 

 seventh superior lateral 

 plates, which are brown, 

 perhaps red in life. The 

 marginal half of the 

 inferior labials black; 

 gular region brown and 

 lead colored in the mid- 

 Scuta, lGo-1-46; end of tail 



Fi'l'. 283. 



EUT.ENIA ELEGANS PLUTONIA COPE. 

 = 1. 



Arizona. 



Cat. No. 8171, U.S.N.M. 



die. Extremities of gastrosteges black 

 possibly a little shortened. 



This specimen shows indications of the color i^attern of the E. e. 

 vagrans. It has no specific affinity with the E. angustirostris. 



Uutd Ilia elegans jilutonia Cope. 



EUT^NIA ELEGANS ELEGANS Baird and Girard. 



Eutcenia elegans Cope, Check-list N. Amer. Batr. Kept., 1875, \\. 41. 



Eutaiyiia elegans Baird and Girard, Cat. Kept. N. Amer., Pt. 1, Serpents, 1853, 



p. 34. 

 Trojndonotiis trivittatiis Hallowell, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1853, p. 257. 



Head short, broad. Upper labial plates higher than long. Eyes 

 small. Exterior dorsal row of scales largest, delicately carinated, 

 remainder of equal size. Above deep blackish brown. An ochraceous 

 or dark gamboge-yellow dorsal stripe begins at the occiput, and sud- 

 denly widening to the width of three or four scales, contracts gradually 

 to one and two half-rows, at which it continues to the tail. On each 

 side is a well-defined stripe of greenish yellow along the second and 

 part of the third outer row, and contrasting decidedly in color with the 

 vertebral line. The blackish brown color is strongly defined between 

 the stripes, below them the greenish white sides and abdomen are 

 tinged with brown (on the exterior dorsal and ends of abdominal 



