CROCODIIJANS, LIZARDS, AND SNAKES. 



1055 



spots are far less distinct, tlie dorsal stripe is wide and better defined, 

 and the colors are much brighter. In six specimens from San Francisco 

 the spots are distinct in adults, as in the type of Baird and Girard. 



Eutcenla infvrnalis inftntuVm Jllainville. 



/< .„i • Number 

 Catalogue „j.^p^^j. 



rnena. 



11754 

 16654 



Locality. 



Fresno, California 



San Francisco, California . 



-do, 



From whom received. 



G. Eisen 



Collins Overland Telegraph 

 Co. 



Nature of specimen. 



Alcoholic, 

 do. 



do. 



U.S. 



N.M. 



No. 



1S712 

 18713 



Sex 

 and 

 age. 



Adult. 



Locality. 



San .Joaquin Kiver, High Sierra, 



California. 



Monterey, California 



Morro, .San Luis Obispo County, 



California. 

 do 



Alti- 

 tude. 



Feet. 

 8, 100 



When 

 collected. 



Julv 29 



Oct. 5 

 Nov. 10 



.do 



From whom 

 received. 



Nelson . . . 



Bailey ... 

 Nelson . . . 



do... 



liemarka. 



Near jNIamnioth 

 Pas.s. 



EUTiENIA INFERNALIS VIDUA Cope. 

 Euttt'uia iiifenialis ridua Cope, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mns., XIV, 1892, p. 6.58. 



Body moderately robust, compressed to the base of the tail; head 

 moderately distinct; muzzle moderately elongate. Tail from three and 

 two- thirds to three and three-fourths times in total length, compressed 

 for the basal half. Scales in nineteen rows graduating iu size from 

 the lirst on each side, which is 

 as deep as wide and very feebly 

 keeled. Other scales not very 

 elongate, feebly notched. Supe- 

 rior labials eight, all higher than 

 long. Loreal not longer than 

 high; oculars 1-3; temporals 

 1-2-3; one of the second row 

 larger than the rest. Geneials 

 narrow, subequal. Frontal 

 short, twice as wide as the super- 

 ciliaries anteriorly. Scuta, 

 151-1-77. 



Color blai;k, without markirgs 

 excepting a yellow olivacejus 



throat and chin and a yellow dorsal stripe which covers one and two 

 half-rows of scales from the parietal plates to the basal third of the 

 tail, whence it runs on a single row to the end of the latter. Muzzle 

 and labial i)lates uniform lead color; throat yellowish. 



This species is so far known from the two original specimens only, 

 which are in excellent preservation. It resembles in general characters 



Kig. 295. 

 Eut.s:nia i.nfeun.\lis vidua Cope. 



=rr 1. 



San Francisco, California. 

 Cat. No. il70, U.S. N.M. 



