CKOrODTLTANS, LIZARDS, AND SNAKES. 



ion? 



This form is the extreme in the direction taken by the />'. -s. orditutfa, 

 where the bands are entirely wanting, but the quadrate lateral spots 

 remain. In the entire absence of bla('k marks on tlie labial and 

 abdominal plates, this form dif- 

 fers also from its immediate 

 allies. The coloration is that of 

 Cyclophis <('stiri(.s. 



In a second specimen (Cat. No. 

 U642) from Tuckermnck, Massa- 

 chusetts, a small spot is to be 

 seen on a few of the gastrosteges, 

 while on two from Columbus, 

 Ohio, and one from Andros- 

 coggin, Maine, the gastrostegal 

 spots are distinct. On one of the 

 former, skeletons of black spots 



are visible behind the head. In one of them the tail enters f(»ur and 

 one-third times into the total length. 



Fiji. 2i(8. 



T.V.NIA SIRTALIS OKAJIINKA Coi'E. 

 = 1. 



Tuckermnck, Massachusetts. 



r-.a. No. 14B4'>, n.s.N.M. 



Ellin }iia sirtaliii ijramitiea Cope. 



j mens. 



9254 1 



1004 1 



1023 I 1 



14642 I 1 



21698 



21690 



21700 



21701 I 



Locality. 



From whom received. 



Columbus, Ohio ; J. M. Whcaton 



do ? 



Androscofrgiu, Maine ? 



Tuckermnck, Massai-husettsj Dr. H. J. Bigelow 



Maumee River, Grand Itap- U. S. Fish Commission. 



ids, Ohio. 



Sugar Creek, Lima, Ohio 



Sugar Creek, Cloverdale, 



Ohio, 

 Sugar Creek, Lima, Ohio 



.do 

 .do 



-do 



Nature of snecimeu. 



Alcoholic, 

 do. 

 do. 

 do. 

 do. 



do. 



do. 



EUTiENIA SIRTALIS ORDINATA Linnaeus. 



Entamia sirtalis ordinata Cope, Check-list N. Amer. Batr. Eept., Bull. U. S. Nat. 



Mus., No. 1, 1875, p. 41; Wheeler's Survey W. 100th Mer., V, Zoology, p. 546. 

 Torpidonotiis ordinatiis Hoi.hrook, N. Amer. Herp., 1842, p. 45, pi. xii. 

 Kntainia ordinata B.\ird aud (iIU.vrd, Cat. N. Amer. Reptiles, I*t. 1, Ser]n'nts, 



1853, p. 32. 

 Coluber ordinatiis Linn.el's, Syst. Nat., I, 1766, l^. 379. — G:mklix, Limiipus ISyst. 



Nat., 13tli ed., I, Pt. 3, 1788, p. 10S»7.— ILvrlan, Jonrn. Acad. Nat. Sci. I'hila., 



V, 1827, p. .349. 

 TropidonotUfi ordinatns Hoi.iiROOK, N. Aiiicr. llorp., Ill, 1842, p. 45, pi. xii. 

 I'ipera firacilis viacnlatiis Cate.sby, Nat. Hist. Carol., II, 1743, p. 51, pi. i.i. 

 Vipera riridis maculatus Catksby, Nat. Ilist. Carol., II, 1743, p. 53, pi. liii. 

 Kntanta sirtalis melanota SMrru, Higley, Trans. Wisconsin Acad. Sciences, VII, 



p. 163. 

 Tropidonotiis ordinatn.s Boulexger, Cat. Snakes lirit. Mns., I, 1893, p. 206. 



General color greenish brown or olive. Vertebral yellowish line more 

 or less incons])icuous. Lateral stripe on the second and third rows of 

 scales very little e\ident. In fact, it might be almost said to be want- 



