CROCODILIANS, LIZARDS, AND SNAKES. 



1047 



crimson, as in E. s. parietal is. The agreement of the scale and labial 

 formula' with those of the E. elrqanfi induces me to refer it to that species 

 rather tiian to the JE. sirtali.s, although the latter cxliibits occasionally 

 in California eiglit upper labials. 



r>esides the characters mentioned, this form has a. yellow dorsal stri])e 

 which is well defined, covering one and two half rows of scales. The 

 lateral stri[)e is defined below by a browu shade, which fades into the 

 brownish olive of the belly below. The spots of the inferior lateral 

 row are large and are continent above with the wide black dorso lateral 

 band. No nuchal spots, but the dark color of the back continues into 

 the brown of the to}) of the head. Su|>erior labials brownish oli\e; the 

 posterior narrow by brown bordered; chin and throat yebow. Gas- 

 trosteges unsi)otted, loO in number. Tail injured; the l)ase with a tri- 

 angular section. Length of body, 490 mm. One s[)eciinen from San 

 Francisco, California. Baird and Girard enumerate their specimens all 

 from California, and two of them from San Francisco, 



Eutamia elegann ordinoides Baird and Girard. 



Catalogno ,. 



Locality. 



1 San Francisco, California. 



F70IU wlioiii received. 



Collins Overland Telegraph 

 Co. . 



Nature of spccinien. 



Alcoholic. 



EUTiENIA ANGUSTIROSTRIS Kennicott. 



KuUvnia anj/itstlrostris Kennicott, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. I'liila., 1S(](). ]> 

 Cope, Cbeck-list N. Aiiier. Batr. Rept., 1875, p. 41. 



332.- 



Body moderately stout; tail less than one- fourth the total length 

 and very small. Head exceedingly elongated and narrow, more so 

 than auy other of the geuus; 

 snout very long, narrow, and 

 pointed. Crown plane above; eye 

 large. Upper labials eight, sixth 

 largest, seventh scarcely smaller. 

 Dorsal rows twenty-one; outer 

 row large, very faintly carinated : 

 the second smaller but broader 

 than the third; the next rather 

 large and elongated, and strongly 

 carinated. Dorsal stripe narrow, 

 very indistinct. An indistinct, 

 dull, whitish lateral stripe on the 



second and third rows. Above the lateral stripes dark olive-brown or 

 black. Abdomen dark ashy olive or black. 



The back above the third row of scales is dark brown without spots, 

 but with each scale bordered with darker. The S(tales of the second 

 and third row are grayish olive, witli distinct yellow borders. Tlie first 



lOl' I.KMA ANULSTIUOSTKIS KEN.MCDTT. 

 = 1. 



Parraa, Coahuila, Mexico. 



Cat. No. 959, U.S.N. I«. 



