CROCODILIAN!?, LIZARDS, AND SNAKES. 



1039 



on tlie frontal region, or continues, especially in youn-ev specimens, to 

 the end of the muzzle. Inferior labials yellowish olive, the niKlclle 

 ones with a trace of a dark posterior border above. A pair of parietal 

 spots; gular region light yellow. Dorsal stripe faint on tail. 



Temporals 1-2-3, or, in some specimens, 1-2-A-i. Tail three and 

 four iifths times in total length. Gastrosteges one hundred and eight; 

 anal, one; urosteges, eighty-nine. 



This is a common form of eastern California and Oregon. It extends 

 as far south as Fresno, California (Cat. No. 12504), and east as iar as 

 Walla Walla, Washington (Cat. No. 10911). It connects completely 

 the subspecies IJ. e. elegans and IJ. e. rmimns in spite of their very dit- 

 ferent appearance. A specimen (Cat. No. 11805) fr(mi Shasta County, 

 California, is almost as uniformly black as the former, while Cat. No. 

 101)11, from Walla Walla, approaches (piite near to the K e. vagrans in 

 the dark lead-colored middle abdomen. 



EHtd'ula eleijitnx lineolala Cope. 



Catalogue 

 No. 



8579 



8580 

 8587 



Number 

 of speci- 

 mens. 



Locality. 



Lake Taboe, Nevada. 



Southern California . 

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\Vben 

 collected. 



Sept. —,1876 



, 1875 



Aug. — , 1875 



From wboiu received. 



Dr. W. A. 

 U. S. A. 



do 



do 



Hammond, 



East California 



Fort Klamath, Oregon . . . 



Oregon 



do 



Camp Warner, Oregon . . . 

 do 



Camp Bidwell, California 



do 



do 



do 



Fresno, California 



Southern Oregon 



Walla Walla, Washington. 



Baird, Shasta (Jouuty, 

 CalilV)rnia. 



Aug. 29. 1878 

 Sept. — , 1878 

 Sept. —,1878 

 Aug. 10, 1878 



do 



July -,1878 

 July — , 1878 

 July -, 1878 

 JulV —,1878 



do. 

 Alcoholic 

 type, 

 do I Alcoholic. 



Nature of 

 specimen. 



Alcoholic. 



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...do 



...do 



Gustav Eiseu ... 

 H. W. Hcnshaw . 



C. Bendire 



L. Stone 



do. 

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 tlo. 

 do. 

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 do. 

 do. 



EUTiENIA ELEGANS VAGRANS Baird and Girard. 



Kutcvma vagrans Baiud and (iiR.vRO, Cat. N. Amer. Ki-pt., Pt. 1, Serpents, 1853, 

 p. 35.-YAKROW, Wheeler's Kept., U. S. Geog. Survey, W. of lOOtli Mer., V, 

 p. 548.— Cope, Check-list N. Amer. Batr. Kept., 1875, p. 41. 



TropidonofHS vagrans Boulenger, Cat. Snakes l?rit. Mus., I, 1893, p. 202. 



General color, clay color, tinged with brownish above and olivaceous 

 below. Stripes very indistinct; covering but one row of scales for 

 most of the length, but covering three rows on the nape. No distinctly 

 darker .shade below the lateral stripe. Gastrosteges with black blotches 

 at the middle, narrowing more or less toward their margins, and fre- 

 quently wanting on the anterior part of the length. Lips with or with- 

 out iailit traces of black posterior borders ou the middle superior labial 

 shields. Two rows of lateral black spots are indistinctly indicated 

 when the integument is not stretched, by some black si)ecks at the bases 



