178 Cincinnati Society of Natural History. 



Anterior dorsal region and top of head nearly black : two 

 parietal spots. Labial plates and chin yellow, the former with 

 broad, black posterior edges on the upper lip. 



" In this species the scuta present no exceptional features, 

 except that the frontal and prefrontal plates are more than 

 usually wide, as compared with their length. In one speci- 

 men there are eight superior labials on one side, but this is 

 probably an abnormality. Its tw^enty-one rows of scales sep- 

 arate it from the typical Eiitcc7iia radix, the species to which it 

 has closest affinity, to say nothing of various peculiarities of 

 coloration. It is nearest the subspecies haydeni of the E. 

 radix, but differs from it in the interrupted lateral ventral 

 black band and the black labial borders. It also approximates 

 the E. flavilahris, but differs in a way opposite from the E. 

 biitlcri. The dark colors predominate in the present species, 

 and the lateral stripe of the gastrosteges is also peculiar to it. 

 In the E. flavi/abris there is also a large postoral yellow 

 black-edged crescent, as in E. luarciana, of which no trace 

 appears in E. r. ntclanotccniay 



Genus STORERIA, B. cS: G. 



16. Storeria dckayi {Yio\\)XOoV). DkKav's Snakk. Vigo 

 County, (Collection State Normal School, Prof. B. W. Ever- 

 mann). Somewhat common in Miami County, (J. C. Cunning- 

 ham). Monroe County, not common, (C. H. Bollman). Two 

 specimens have been taken near Metamora, Franklin County, 

 and these two are the only records from the White Water 

 Valley. 



Genus ELAPS, Schneider. 



17. E/ops/ii/vius (h.). BiCAi) Snake. Harlequin Snake. 

 " ViiMiK." A specimen of this snake, in the collection of 

 Moore's Hill College, Moore's Hill, Ind.. was taken in Ripley 

 County (H. F. Bain). An account of this specimen was pre- 

 sented, by Prof. A. J. Bigney, to the Indiana Academy of 

 Science, December 30, 1891. The only other evidence known 

 to me, of the occurrence of this form so far north, is afforded 

 by a specimen in the collection of the Cincinnati Society of 

 Natural History, which was ])rcscnted by my esteemed friend, 

 the late Dr. John A. Warder. The record shows it to be from 



