88. CORONELLA. 197 



the head, separated by narrow pale lines and followed by one or 

 more black bauds across the uape ; lips and gular region yellowish ; 

 lower parts whitish, the borders of the shields blackish. 

 West Africa. 



a. Yg. (V. 187 ; C. 58). W. Africa. Sir .T. Eichardson [P.]. 



(Type of Coryphodon maryaritiferus.) 



7. Coronella getula. 



Coluber getulus, Linn. S. N. i. p. 382 (1766) ; Cateshy, Nat. Hist. 



Carol, pi. lii. (1771) ; Daud. Rept. vi. p. 314, pi. Ixxvii. fig, 1 



(1803) ; Harl. Journ. Ac. Philnd. v. 1827, p. 358, and Med. P/n/s, 



J?M. p. 122 (18.35) ; DeKai/, N. Y. Faun. iii. p. 37, pi. x. %.'21 



(1842) ; Gdnth. Cat. p. 249 (1858). 

 .'' rioliiber eximius, Harl. II. cc. p. .360. 

 Coluber (Opbis) californise, Blainn. N. Ann. Mas. iv. 1835, p. 292, 



pi. xxvii. tig. 1. 

 Herpetodryas getulus, lichleg. Phys. Serp. ii. p. 198 (18-37). 

 Coronella getulus, Holbr. N. Am. Herp. iii. p. 95, pi. xxi. (1842) ; 



Dwn. 4" Bibr. vii. p. 616 (1854) ; Jan, Arch. Zool. Anat. Phys. ii. 



1863, p. 244, and Icon. Gen. 12, pi. vi. & 14, pi. v. (1865). 

 sayi, Holbr. I. e. p. 99, pi. xxii. ; Diun. Sf Bibr. p. 619; G'dnth. 



Cat. p. 41 ; Jan, II. cc. 

 Ophibolus boylii, Baird ^ Gir. Cat. N. Am. Rept. p. 82 (1853). 



splendidus, Baird v^ Gir. I. c. p. 83. 



savi, Baird Sf Gir. I. c. p. 84, and in Marcy's Eaplor. Red Riv. 



p. 228, pi. vii. (1853). 

 getulus, Baird Sf Gir. I. c. p. 85 ; Cope, Check-list N. Am. 



Rept. p. 37 (1875) ; Garm. N. Am. Rept. p. 68, pi. v. figs. 3 & 4 



(1883); Co))e, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xiv. 1892, p. 611 ; H. Garm. 



Bull. Illin. Lab. iii. 1892, p. 297 ; Hay, Batr. ^ Rept. Indiana, 



p. 110 (1893). 

 Coronella balteata. Hallow. Proc. Ac. Philad. 1853, p. 226, and R'p. 



E.vphr. Surv. R. R. x. pt. 4, pi. v. (1857). 



California?, Dam. ^ Bibr. p. 623. 



Lampropeltis sayi, Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1860, p. 254 



splendida, Cope, I. c. p. 255. 



getula. Cope, I. c. 



boylii, Cope, I. c. 



boj'lii, var. conjuncta, Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1801, p. .301. 



Coronella pseudogetulus, Jan, II. cc. p. 247, Icon. 12, pi. vi. fig. 2. 



Ophibolus califoruiae, Cb/>e, Chech-list, p. 37. 



getulus niger, eiseni, multicinctus, Yarroio, Proc. U.S. Nat. 



Mm. V. 1882, p. 438. 



Snout slightly prominent ; rostral about once and a half as broad 

 'as deep, the portion visible from above measuring about one third 

 [its distance from the frontal ; suture between the internasals about 

 half as long as that between the praefrontals ; frontal considerably 

 longer than broad, as long as its distance from the end of the snout, 

 shorter than the parietals ; loreal as long as deep, or deeper than 

 'long, or longer than deep, sometimes absent; one pr^e- and two 

 I (rarely three) postoculars ; temporals 2 + 2 or 2 + 3; seven upper 

 labials, third and fourth entering the eye ; four lower labials in 

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



