282 lUinoh State Lahor<(tonj of Xatiiral History. 



Color above uniform bluish black. Beneath bright brick- 

 red, with broken or complete transverse bluish black bands 

 which are continuous at the sides with downward extensions 

 of the black of the dorsal surface. The red of the ventral sur- 

 face extends upward on the sides between the black bars to 

 the third or fourth row of dorsal scales. Head olive-brown 

 above, uniform or marked with red. Posterior supralabials 

 reddish brown with black central spots. Inferior surface of 

 the head brownish anteriorly, becoming pale salmon-red be- 

 hind, many of the plates with black central spots. The trans- 

 verse black bars alternate on the posterior part of the tail, and 

 are wanting toward the tip. 



Total length of an example from Union Co., 38.50; tail, 

 6.25. 



Southern Illinois. Frequent. Wabash Valley (Kidgway), 

 Bluff Lake, Union Co. 



This is a beautiful serpent with the scales of the dorsal 

 surface like polished ebony. " Not uncommon as far north as 

 Vincennes. A living female with eggs was sent to the Na- 

 tional Museum from Wheatland, Ind." (Hidgway). "Com- 

 mon around the Bluff Lakes [Union Co.] during August and 

 September.'' (C.W.Butler.) 



OYCLOPHIS, GlNTHEK. 



(iiinther, Cat. Coll. .Serp. in Jirit. Mus., Pt. I., 185.s,p. 119. 

 iJd. and (Jir., Chlorosoma, Cat N. A. Kept., Pt. 1.. 185:i, p. 108. 



Dorsal scales perfei^tly smooth, in fifteen rows. Anal 

 plate divided. Rostral normal. Two internasals. Two pre- 

 frontals. One nasal, nostril opening in its uiiddle. Loreal 

 present. One anteorbital. Two -postorbitals. Small, slender; 

 head distinct from body; tail moderately long. 



Cyclophis vernalis, Harlan, (thkkn Snakk. 



Ciilnhir r(iiiiilis. Harlan, .h)ur. Acad. Nat. Sci. i'lula., \'., 1827, 

 p. 301.- Holbr., N. A. Ilerp., 1842, III., p. Tit, pi. 17.— De Kay, 

 Nat. Hist. N. Y., I., Zoul. III., IJept. and Amph.. IS42. p. io, 

 pi. ll.lig.22. 



f/i/oi'isimia nriKi/ls. lid. and (iir.. Cat. N. A. Kept., Pt. 1., isr)3, 

 I'. 108.— Kenn., Trans. 111. state Agr. Soc, 18r):^-54, 1., p. r)'.«2. 



