1068 



REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEIM, 1898. 



iug, but for a faint trace. Three series of small square dark blotches 

 ou each side, about eighty-five in number from head to anus. The first 

 is on the outer row of dorsal scales, involving the edges of the contig- 

 uous scales. The second on the fourth row; the third on each side of 

 the dorsal stripe, both like the first, involving the edges of and inter- 

 vals between the contiguous scales; indeed, on stretching apart the 

 skin, the black spots are seen to be converted into a network of black 



along the skin. Beneath 

 greenish white, with spots of 

 black near each end of the 

 abdominal scutelhie. Upper 

 labial plates all prominently 

 edged vertically with black. 



This species strongly resem- 

 bles J^. sirtaHs, especially the 

 spotted varieties. It may, 

 however, be readily distin- 

 guished bj^ the three regular 

 series of tessellated black 

 spots on each side, their promi 

 nence, and their number, 

 about eighty-five, not seventy. The lateral stripe is nearly absent, and 

 the dorsal ( uite indistinct. The lower row of blotches is below and 

 along the place of the lateral stripes. The occipital black patch is 

 much larger than in U. sirtalis, and the labials more margined. 



Baird and Girard give the following scutalformula% and i)roportions 

 in inches. 



Fiji. 299. 

 Eut^;nia siktai.is ordinata Lixn;ecs. 



Adirondack Mountains, New Torlv. 



Cat. No. IILW, r.s.N.Ar. 



Locality. 

 Riceboro, (Jeorgia 



Do 



fieorgia 



(ia.strosteges. Uiostegea. Scales. Length. Tail. 



139 68 19 28 7 



141 55 19 21 5i 



152 79 19 14 3* 



In the most typical specimen of this species (Oat. No. 5222; northern 

 Alabama), the dorsal spots of the superior row connect across the 

 middle line, and do not connect with the spots of the inferior row. 

 The form which is common about the eastern shore of Buzzards Bay 

 and other parts of Massachusetts (Cat. No. 13330) has the same char- 

 acter, l)ut the spots are larger and the gentral colors darker. 



This form or subspecies jjasses in one direction into the E. s. grami- 

 nea., and in the otlier into the IJ. s. sirtali,s, as the spots and bands are 

 more or less distinct. The spots are very indistinct in Cat. Nos, 1023, 

 1047, 1040, 10r)0, 7808, 8901, and 14732, and traces of the stripes are 

 visible in Cat. Nos. 990, 1023, 1049, and 14732. 



A specimen (Cat. No. 1033) from Blount County, Tennessee, is a mela- 

 nistic form of this subspecies. The color is entirely black, except that the 

 narrow interspaces between the large square alternate; lateral spots are 

 a little paler; chin, throat, and superior labials below orbit, yellowish. 



