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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUH.EUM, 1898. 

 Eiiionia lepioeephala I laird and Girard. 



Locality. 



I'uget Sound, Oregon 



do 



Kocky Mountains 



fort '.Stcilacoom, Washing 



ton. 



Tahat Plain 



Humboldt Bay, California 

 Shoalwater Bay, Washing 



ton. 

 Tluniboldt Bay, California 



Pacific R. R. Survey 



Crescent City, California . 



Western Oregon 



ShoMlw liter Bay 



Fort riii]iqua, Oregon 



Puget Sound 



Chalahapla 



From whom received. 



Nature of specimen. 



Dr. C. B. R. Kennerly Alcoholic. 



do do. 



Dr. Thos. H. Webb do. 



George Stevens I do. 



Dr. J. G. Cooper. 



22400 

 22403 

 22408 



Vancouver Island, British 



Columbia. 

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Dr. J. G. Cooper 



P. Schumacher 



H. W. Henshaw 



Dr. J. G. Cooper 



Dr. VoUum 



U. S. Exploring Expedition . 



Dr. J. (i. Cooper '< Alcoholic (type of 



E. atrata). 

 John Macoun Alcoholic. 



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EUTiENIA SCALARIS Cope. 



Kutania sralaiis CofK, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1886, p. 306. — Yarrow, Bull. 

 1^ S. Nat. Mu8., No. 24, 1883, p. 128.— Cope, Hull. U. S. Nat.Mus., No. 32, 

 1887,p. 73.— A.DuGES,Natur..leza, 1888, p. 129, pi. xiii, fig. 17.— Cope, Proc. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., 1892, p. 647.— Bocouht, Mi.ss. Sci. Mex., 1893, p. 768. 



Thamnophis scalaris Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1860, p. 369. 



Tropidonotus scaUf/er .Jan, Arch. Zool. Auat. Phys., Ill, 1865. p. 214. 



Tropidonotus scalaris Boulenger, Cat. Snakes Brit. Mus., I, 1893, p. 204. 



Form moderately slender, the tail a little less than one-fourth the 

 total length. Head narrow, elevated, the profile sloping in front; muz- 

 zle obtuse. Temi^oral small, not attaining the reduced last upper 

 labial. Front of plate narrow, half as wide as long, with concave or 

 parallel lateral borders. Occipitals elongate. Loreal plate higher than 

 long; one preocular, three postoculars. Superior labials, seven ; fourth 

 and fifth entering the orbit. Inferior labials, ten. Anterior geneials 

 longer than posterior. Scales in nineteen rows, not emarginate ; lateral 

 stripe on the second and third rows. Gastrosteges, one hundred and 

 forty- three; an entire anal; urosteges, fifty-nine pair. 



Beneath and upon the first row of scales, dark, ashy olivaceous, the 

 latter freipiently black at their bases. Second and one-half the third 

 row of scales a little paler. The vertebral and the borders of one row 

 on each side of it yellowish. The color of the remainder of the upper 

 surface is brown, anteriorly shaded with olivaceous. This is crossed 

 from the lateral to the dorsal stripe on each side by black or deep- 

 brown transverse bars, numbering, from the head to the origin of the tail, 

 about sixty. There is a pair of large spots just behind the occipital 

 plates, and one involving the temporals and the whole of the occip- 

 itals, its anterior border trilobate and produced upon the vertical and 

 superciliaries. A short yellowish vitta, extending from the posterior 



