40 COLTTBEIDiE. 



Coluber pantliprinns, Baud. I. c. p. 318. 



floridanus, Had. II. cc. pp. 360, 124. 



Scotopliis guttatus, Baird S,- Gir. Cat. N. Am. Rept. p. 78 (1853) ; 



Bocoiirt, Miss. Sc. Me.v., Rept. p. 078, pi. xlvi. fig-. 4 (1888). 

 eraorvi, Baird i^- Gir. I. c. p. 157 ; Kemiicott, Rep. U.S. Me.v. 



Bound. Surv. ii., Rept. p. 19, ]j1. xii. (1859). 

 Elaphis guttatus, Dinn. i.^- Bibr. vii. p. 273 (1854) ; J(m, Icon. Gen. 



21, pi. \i. (18U7) ; Gurtn. N. Am. Rept. p. 55, pi. iv. tig. 1 (1883) ; 



M. Garm. Bidl. Illin. Lah. iii. 1892, p. 292. 



rubriceps, Dum. S^ Bibr. t. c. p. 270. 



Coluber guttatus, part., Gimth. Cat. p. 89 (1858). 



Scotophis calligaster, Kemiicott, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1859, p. 08. 



Coluber rbinouiegas. Cope, Proc. Ac. I'hilud. 1860, p. 255. 



Elaphis alleglianieiisis, part., Jaji, I. c. 24, pi. ii. fig. 2. 



Coluber emoryi, Cope, Check-list N. Am. Rept. p. 39 (1875). 



? Coluber bairdi, Yarrow, iri Cope, Bull. U.S. Nat.Mus. uo. 17, 1880, 



p. 41. 

 Isatrix emoryi, Cope, Bidl. U.S. Nat. Mas. no. 32, 1887, p. 71. 

 Coluber guttatus sellatus, Cojje, Proc. U.S. Nut. Mus. xi. 1888, 



p. 387. 



Pvostral broader than deep, just visible from above ; internasals 

 broader than long, much shorter than the prsefrontals ; frontal once 

 and a halt' to once and two thirds as long as broad, as long as its 

 distance from the rostral or the end of the snout, shorter than the 

 parietals ; loreal longer than deep ; one pr*- and two or three post- 

 oculars ; temporals 2 or 3 + 3 or 4; eight upper labials, fourth and 

 fifth entering the eye ; four or five lower labials in contact with the 

 anterior chin-shields, which are as long as or a little longer than 

 the posterior. Scales in 25 to 29 (rarely 31) rows; dorsals very 

 feebly keeled. Yentrals not or but very obtusely angulate laterally, 

 200-239 ; anal divided ; subcaudals 60-88. Yellowish or pale 

 brown above, with a dorsal series of large, brown or red, black- 

 edged spots, and an alternating lateral series of smaller spots ; a 

 curved dark band from eye to eye across the prsefrontals, continued 

 behind the eye to the angle of the mouth; a f\ or Q'^haped 

 marking from the frontal shield to the nape ; labials usually with 

 black sutures or spots ; belly yellow, with large squarish black 

 blotches. 



Total length 1040 millim. ; tail 160. 



United States east of the Rocky Mountains ; North Mexico. 



A. 25 to 40 dorsal spots from the nape to the base of the tail ; 

 labials with black sutures. (C. guttatus, L.) 



a. 2 (Sc. 25; V. 234; N.America, E. Doubledav, Esq. [P.]. 

 C. 67). 



b. Yg. (Sc. 27 ; V. 231 ; New York. 

 C. 67). 



e. J (Sc. 27 ; V. 207 ; Tennessee. Christiania Museum. 

 C. 65). 



d. cJ (Sc. 27 ; V. 220 ; Marion Co., Flo- A. Erwin Brown, Esq. 

 C. 71). rida. [P.]. 



e. Skull. Charleston. 



