1042 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1898. 



Enta;nia eleyaus vatjrauii Ikiird and Girard — Coutiimed. 



U.S. 

 N. M. 



No. 



18699 

 18700 

 18701 

 18702 

 18703 

 18704 



18705 

 18700 

 18707 



Sex and 



age. I 



Locality. 



young 

 Yoiiui; 



Silver Creek, Nevada 



Asli Meadows, Nevada 



do 



North Fork, Keru River, California . 



do 



Soda Sprinjrs, North Pork, Kern 

 River, California. 



Whitney Creek, California 



Owen's River, Cahtornia 



Lone ?ine, California 



Alti- 

 tude. 



Feet. 



8,500 

 6,000 



When 

 collected. 



Nov. 

 Mar. 

 Mar. 

 Sept. 

 Sept. 

 Aug. 



Sept. 

 July 

 June 



8, 1890 

 3,1891 

 4, 1891 

 12 1891 

 10,1891 

 15,1891 



5. 1891 

 20, 1891 

 11,1891 



From whom 

 received. 



Bailey. 

 I'almer. 



do. 



do. 



Ncliioii. 

 Bailey. 



do 

 Nelson. 

 Palmer. 



EUT.ffiNIA ELEGANS COUCHII Kennicott. 



KiiUinla coKchii Kennicott, Report U. S. Pac. R. R. Survs., X, Willi.iuisoii's Rept., 



1857, p. 10. 

 Eulanla hammondii Kenkicott, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pbila.. 1860, p. 332. 

 Tropidonotiis ordinatus xar. ronrhii BouLENGEit, Cat. Snakes Brit. Mus., I, 1.S93, 



p. 210. 



Fig. 288. 



EUT.-liNI.V EI.EUANS COUCHII KENNICOTT. 



= 1. 



Fort Tojon, California. 



C.it. No. 6496. (• S.N.M. 



Twenty-one rows of scales. Form rather slender; headlong, snout 

 elongate and narrow, but rather obtuse. Postorbitals three, the upper 

 much the largest. Eight upi)er labials, sixth largest; its postero- 

 iuferior angle much elongated. No dorsal stripe; lateral stripe olive 

 yellow on the second and third rows. Back uniform dark olive brown 

 or blackish, without distinct spots. Abdomen whitish olive, lighter 

 anteriorly, and a dark line along the middle posteriorly. 



