60. COLTJBER. e^-t 



*"S.f8f&-£;e1J: ^^^-o^'N. Carolina. Messrs. Bnn.ley [C.]. 

 V. 236 j C. 78). ' 



B. Dark brown above, but with distinct traces of the lar-c spots • 



be] y largely blotched with blackish. (C. allyhaniensis, Holbr ,' 

 C. hndheimeri, B. & G.) 



"■asof'^^' ^"^^^^ Bloomington, Indiana. C. H. Bollman, Esq. 

 6. 2^(Sc.27; V. 233; lUinois. siSsonian Instit. 



^■">- [P.]. 



C. Pale brown above, with large dark brown spots; yellowish 



interiorly. (C. s^nloides, D. & B.) '-J 



a. c?p (So. 29 ; V. 232 ; New York. 



^' a ?§.'■ ^^ ' ^' "^^ ' ^"™^ ^"■' '^'■^''- ^^'- '^'^^°'' ^^^- 1^-^- 



D. Spots as in C, combined with stripes as in E ; bellv with lar-e 



brown spots. ^ 



a. 2^jSc. 27 ; V. 241 ; N. America. 

 C. 77). 



E. Pale brown above, with four dark brown or blackish stripes ; 



belly yellowish, without or with a few brown spots. (O. quadri- 

 vittatus, Holbr.) ^ -^ 



a, b. c? (So. 27, 27 ; V. N. America. 

 237, 241 ; C. 84, 89). 



24. Coluber conspicillatus. 



Coluber conspicillatus, 211; Schleg. Phrjs. Serp. 



. Elaphis conspicillatus, Bum. .$■ Bibr. vii. p. 285 (1854) ; migendorf 

 Sitzb. (/es. Aatwf. Freunde, 1880, p. 114 ^i-ujenaoij, 



Coronella coiispicillata, Jan, Arch. Zool. Anat. Phys. ii. 1863 n "49 

 and Icon. Gen. 14, pi. vi. fig. 1 (1865). ' ^' ' 



Callopeltis conspiciUatus, Giglioli, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1887, p. 595. 



Eostral nearly twice as broad as deep, visible from above • inter- 

 nasals much broader than long, shorter than the prajf^ntals • 

 frontal a little longer than broad, as long as its distance from the 

 end ot the snout, shorter than the parietals; loreal longer than 

 deep; one pra^- and two postoculars ; temporals 1+2 or '^^g- 

 seven upper labials, third and fourth entering the eye; four Wer 

 abials in contact with the anterior chin-shields, which are a little 

 longer than the posterior. Scales smooth, or faintlv keeled on the 

 posterior part of the body, in 21 rows. Yentrals distinctly anlu- 

 late laterally, 200-224; anal divided; subcaudals 60-76: Pale 



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