1044 



REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1898. 

 Eiitwma eleyaris couchii Keiinicott. 



Catalogue ^«™,\«^ 

 mens. 



Locality. 



"When 

 collected. 



From wlioui received. ' Mature of 

 Hpecimeu. 



885 

 894 



7793 

 8604 



5496 

 86G 

 8584 

 9253 

 11775 



Fort Tejon, (California. 

 Sau Diego, California. . 



Governor Stevens Alcoliolic. 



-do 



Mohave Desert, Arizona. 

 Southern California 



July 

 Aug. 



-, 1875 



-, 1875 



Dr. W. A. Hammond, 



U. S. A. 

 Dr. J. G. Cooper 



Dr. O. Loew 



H. W. Henshaw. 



nl- 



Fort Tejon, California 



Pitt River, California 



iloliaveDe.sert, California 



(?) 



Fre.9no, Calitornia 



J. Xantus. 



Dr. 0. Loew. 



(?) 



G. Eisen 



do. 



do. 



do. 

 Heads, 



coholic. 

 Alcoholic. 



do. 



do. 



do. 



do. 



18687 

 18688 



18689 

 18690 

 18091 

 186ii2 

 18693 

 18694 

 18695 

 18696 

 18697 

 18698 



Age and sex. 



Female adult 

 Adult 



Female adult 



Young. 

 Young. 

 Young. 

 Young. 

 Adult.. 



Adult., 

 roung. 



Locality. 



Owens Valley, Alvord, California 



Owens Valley, tish slough, 10 miles north of 

 Bisho]>, (Jalifornia. 



Owens Lake, Cartago, California 



Old Fort Tejon, California 



Lone Pine, California 



Kern River, 25 miles ahoveKernville, California. 



do 



Sern River, South Fork, California 



Kern River, California 



Kern River, South Fork, California 



Soda Springs, Keru River, California , 



do 



Alti- 

 tude. 



Feet. 

 4,000 



7.200 

 2,700 



When 

 collected. 



1891. 

 June 27 

 July 2 



From 

 whom re- 

 ceived. 



Stephens, 

 do. 



June 10 

 J uly 3 

 Aug. 

 July 9 

 July 5 

 Jirly 7 

 Sept. 8 

 June 22 

 Sept. 4 

 Aug. 14 



do. 



Palmer. 



1 I Fisher. 



do. 



do. 



do. 

 Melson. 

 Palmer. 

 Fisher. 

 Bailev. 



This form is generally easily recognizable in adults by the absence of 

 the vertebral stripe. But Van Denburgh describes a specimen from 

 Lower California, in which the dorsal stripe is present. 



EUT.flENIA ELEGANS MARCIANA Baird and Girard. 



Eutoenia marclaua Copk, Check-list N. Amer. Batr. Rept., 1875, p. 41. 



Euiainia marciana Baikd and Girard, Cat. Rept. N. Amer., Pt. 1, Serpents, 1853, 



p. 36. 

 TropidonotiiH ordinatita \nr. inarcianiis BouLENGEK, Cat. Snakes Brit. Mus., 1, 1893, 



p. 210. 



Above, a light-yellowish brown, with a vertebral paler line and one 

 lateral on eacli side, more or less indistinct. Three series of square 

 black spots on each side, of about 50-G() in each series, from occiput to 

 anus. Sides of head black, with a crescentic patch of yellowish poste- 

 rior to the labial plates. Three and sometimes four black vitt« radiat- 

 ing from the eye across the jaws. A double white spot with a black 

 margin on the suture of occipital plates. 



