66 COLTJBKIDJE. 



d. ¥"■. (Sc. 27 ; V. 201 ; Coimbra. Dr. Lopes Vieira 



C. 60). [P.]. 



c. HgT-. (Sc. 27 ; V. 204 ; Coimbra. Prof. Barboza du 



A. 1 ; C. 58). Bocaf^e [P.]. 



f. S (Sc. 27 ; V. 205 ; Alfeite, Portugal. Prof. Barboza du 

 C. 6.3). Bocage [P.]. 



g. Yg. (Sc. 27; V. 213; Aldegallega, Portugal. Prof. Barboza du 

 C. 60). Bocage [P.]. 



h. SkuU. Moutpellier. 



42. Coluber arizonsB. 



Ai'izona elegans, Kennicott, Rep. U.S. Mex. Bound. Surv. ii. Rept. 

 p. 18, pi. xiii. ( 1859) ; Bocourt, Miss. Sc. Mex., Rept. p. 676 



Pityopbis elegans, Cope, Check-list N. Am. Rept, p. 39 (1875). 

 Rbinecbis elegans, Cope, Proc. Am. Philos. Soc. xxiii. 1886, p. 284, 

 and Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xiv. 1892, p. 638. 



Snout strongly projecting ; rostral as deep as broad, forming an 

 acute angle posteriorly, the portion visible from above measuring 

 nearly two thirds its distance from the frontal ; internasals nearlj' 

 as long as the prsefrontals ; frontal a little longer than broad, a little 

 shorter than its distance from the end of the snout or than the 

 parietals ; loreal longer than deep ; one prae- and two postoculars ; 

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

 entering the eye ; five lower labials in contact with the anterior 

 chin-shields, which are as long as or longer than the posterior. 

 Scales smooth, in 27 to 31 rows. Ventrals 212-227 ; anal entire ; 

 subcaudals 46-59. Pale brown above ; the vertebral line yellowish, 

 but interrupted by a series of larger, oval, transverse, dark-edged 

 brown spots ; a brown streak from the eye to the angle of the mouth; 

 lower parts white. 



Total length 1020 miUim. ; tail 160. 



Southern United States, from California to the Mississippi ; North 

 Mexico. 



a. c? (Sc. 29 ; V. 212 ; Duval Co., Texas. W. Taylor, Esq. [C.l. 

 C. 59). 



b. 2 (Sc. 27 ; V. 227 ; Warner's Ranch, San Prof. C. Eigenmann 

 C. 46). Diego Co., Cali- [C.]. 



fornia. 



43. Coluber deppii. 



Elaphis pleurostictus, Dum. 4" Bibr. vii. p. 244 (1854). 



deppei, Dum. ^- Bibr. t. c. p. 268. 



Pituopbis vertebralis, Giinth. Cat. p. 86 (1858). 



Arizona jani. Cope, Proc. Ac. Phiktd. 1860, p. 369. 



Pituopbis mexicanus {non D. 8f B.), Jan, Icon. Gin. 22, pi. ii. fig. 1 



(1867). 

 deppei, Jan, I. c. fig. 2; Duges, La Naturaleza, (2) i. 1888, 



p. 123, pi. xiii. fig. 15 ; Giinth. Biol. C.-Am., Rept. p. 124 (1894). 



