CROCODILIANS, LIZARDS, AND SNAKES. 



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scutellie). The bases of the scales on tlie exterior dorsal row are black, 

 which sometimes shows wheu the scales are separated, though usually 

 covered by the incumbent edges. Superior labials with only traces of 

 black borders at the upper ])Osterior angles of the middle three or five. 



This subspecies is readily distinguished from its nearest analogue, 

 E. e. lineolata, by the darker 

 color of the sides, the better 

 defined dorsal and lateral 

 stripes, smaller head, smaller 

 number of temporal scales, etc. 

 It has a strong resemblance to 

 l^J. proxima in distribution of 

 color, but is stouter and shorter, 

 and has the lateral strij^e on the 

 second and third rows, not on 

 the third and fourth. 



But two specimens of this 

 form have come under my obser- 

 vation. In the type (Cat. No. 



882) the end of the tail is not certainly complete, but it is so in the 

 second (Cat. No. 878). In the latter the tail enters the total length 

 three and three-quarters times. In both the temi)orals are 1-2-3; the 

 lowest of the third row, at the distal end of the last superior labial. 



Kijr. 284. 

 EUT^HNIA ELEGANS ELEGANS BaIIU) AND GlKAKI>. 



El Dorado County, California. 



Cat. No. 822, U.S.N.M. 



Cat. Xos. 



882 



878 



Gastrosteges. Urosteges. 

 167. 57. 



166. 88. 



Eutoenia cleijans elegans Baird and Girard. 



EUTiENIA ELEGANS BRUNNEA Cope. 

 Eutania eh'tjaiix hvunnea CorE, I'roc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XIV, 1892, p. 654. ^ 



Color of the superior surfaces to the third row of scales (exclusive), 

 brown; of lower surfaces, light yellow, extending to the third row of 

 s(;ales (inclusive). Dorsal stripe, light yellow, occupying the median 

 row of scales and the adja(;ent borders of the adjacent rows, but not 

 well defined laterally, and not black borders. It covers three full rows 

 on the nape, and only one row behind the middle of the length, and is 

 wanting on the tail. No traces of nuchal spots. Labials colored like 

 the abdomen, the superior with traces of brown jwsterior borders. 

 There is but a faint brown shade on the first row of scales and the ends 



