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88. CORONELLA, 203 



Tof-al Icnn^th 780 millim. ; tail 125. 

 Arizona auJ California. 



a. $ (V. 209; C. 60). Sta. Cruz, Califoruia. Hr. A. Forrer [C.]. 



13. Coronella micropholis. 



Coronella doliata, part., Dinn. S)- Bibr.Vn. p. 621 (18-j4) ; Giinth. Cat. 



p. 41 (1858). 

 Lampropeltis micropholis, Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1860, p. 257. 



pohzona, Cope, I. c. p. 258. 



amaura, Cope, I. c. 



Coronella formosa, Jan, Arch. Zool. Anaf. Phys. ii. 1863, p. 241, and 



Icon. Gen. 14, pi. iv. tig. B (1865) ; Bocourt, Miss. So. Me.v., liept. 



p. 612, pi. xxxix. tig. a (1886). 

 doliata, var. conj uucta, Jan, II. cc. p. 242, fig. C ; Bocourt, I. c. 



p. 611, fig. 6. 

 doliata, var. formosa, Boideng. Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 1880, 



p. 44. 

 Opbibolus polyzonus, Sumichrast, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 1880, 



p. 181. 



triaugulus, var. zonatus, Garm. N. Am. Rept. p. 67 (1883). 



Coronella formosa, vars. anomala, oligozona, polyzona, et abnorma, 



Bocourt, I. c. figs. 4, 7, 8. 

 Ophibolus doliatus polyzonus, occipitalis, et annulatus, Cope, Proc. 



U.S. Nat. Mus. 1888, p. 382, and Am. Nat. 1893, p. 1067, 



pi. xxviii. fig. 1. 

 Lampropeltis annulata, Stejneger, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mtis. xiv. 1891, 



p. 503. 

 Coronella annulata, Giinth. Biol. C.-Am., Rept. p. 109, pi. xxx^iii. 



(1893). 



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

 as broad, the portion visible from above measuring one third to 

 two thirds its distance from the frontal ; suture between the inter- 

 nasals shorter than that between the prajfrontals : frontal as long 

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

 end of the snout, as long as or a little shorter than the parietals : 

 loreal usually longer than deep ; one proe- and two postoculars ; 

 temporals 2-\-2 or 2 + 3 (exceptionally 1+2); seven (rarely eight) 

 upper labials, third and fourtla (or fourth and fifth) entering the 

 eye ; four lower labials in contact with the anterior chin-shields, 

 which are as long as or longer than the posterior. Scales in 21 or 

 23 (exceptionally 19 or 25) rows. Yentrals obtusely angulate 

 laterally, 2U4-240 ; anal entire ; subcaudals 46-60. Scarlet, 

 usually with pairs of black rings enclosing yellow ones ; the red 

 scales may be tipped with black ; head black above, usually with a 

 continuous or interrupted yellow band across the snout and 

 another across the occiput; the first black ring usually extends 

 across the throat. 



Total length 1370 millim. ; tail 170. 



America, from Texas and Mexico to the Equator. 



