60. COLUBER. 39 



11. Coluber flavinifus. 



Coluber flavinifus, Cope, Proc. Ac. Pliilad. 1866, p. 319, and Proc. 



Am. Phi/os. Soc. xxii. 1885, p. 175; GUnth. Biol. (J.-Am., Rent. 



p. 115 (1894). 

 Elaphis pardalinus, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1868, p. G42. 

 rodrio-uezii, Bocourt, Le Natw. 1887, p. 168, and Miss. Sc. 



Me.r., liept. p. 083, pi. xlvi. fig. 1 (1888). 

 Natiix Havirufus, Cope, Bull. U.S. Aut. Mus. no. 32, 1887, p. 71. 



Rostral considerably broader than deep, just visible from above ; 

 internasals much broader than long, much shorter than the prse- 

 irontals ; frontal once and one third to once and a half as long as 

 broad, nearly as long as its distance from the end of the snout, 

 shorter than the parietals ; loreal longer than deep ; one large prae- 

 ocuJar (which may be divided into two) ; two postoculars ; temporals 

 2 or 3 -t- 3 or 4; eight or nine upper labials, fourth and titth or 

 fourth, fifth, and sixth entering the eye ; four or hve lower labials 

 in contact with the anterior chin-shields, which are as long as or a 

 little longer than the posterior. Scales in 27 to 33 rows, dorsals 

 faintly keeled. Ventrals 2.52-266 ; anal divided ; subcaudals 102- 

 119. Yellowish or pale brown above, with a dorsal series of reddish 

 or chestnut-brown, black-edged, transverse spots, which may alter- 

 nate or be confluent into a zigzag band ; a lateral series of spots, 

 alternating with the larger dorsal ; two curved dark bands across 

 the snout, some symmetrical markings on the crown and occiput, 

 and two longitudinal bands on the occiput and nape, sometimes 

 confluent in front and behind; lower parts yellowish, with or with- 

 out small brown spots. 



Total length 1220 millim. ; tail 260. 



Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras. 



a. 2 (Sc. 31 ; V. 252 ; Mexico. Hr. H. Fmck rC.l 

 C. 102). ^ -' 



b. Yg. (Sc. 31; V. 263; Belize. 

 C. 116). 



c. Yg. (Sc. 33 ; V. 262; Euatan Id. F. D. Godman, Esq. [P.]. 



C. 117). 



12. Coluber guttatus. 



Cateshj, Nat. Hid. Carol, ii. pi. Iv. (1771) ; Merretn, Beitr. ii. p. .39, 



pi. xi. (1790). 

 Coluber guttatus, Lmn. S. N. i. p. .385 (1766) ; Harl. Journ. Ac. 



Philad. v. 1827, p. 363, and Med. Plujs. Res. p. 126 (1835) ; Holbr. 



N. Am. Herp. iii. p. 65, pi. xLv. (1842); Cope, Proc. U.S. Nat. 



Mus. xiv. 1892, p. 632 : Hay, Batr. ^- Rept. Indiana, p. 92 (1893) ; 



Giinth. Biol. C.-Am., Rept. p. 114 (1894). 

 maculatus, Bonnat. Encijcl. Meth., Ophiol. p. 9 (1789) ; Hurl. 



U. cc. pp. 362, 125. 



compressus, Donnd. Zool. Beitr. p. 206 (198). 



caioliniaous, S/iaw, Zool. iii. p. 460, pi. cxix. (1802). 



molossus, iJaud. Rejjt. j.p 269 (1803); Harl. II. cc. pp. 333, 



126. 



