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Sjjiwps'x of species of Elapn occurrhig in flw I^iiilrd states. 



a' Snout and frontal black, parietals yellow, followed Ity a broad black ring. 



J'Jl((lJS fiih'iiis. 



a^ Snout, frontal, aud'parietals black, followed by a yellow ring and this by a broad 



red oue EUips curi/janthiis. 



There are, besides, several important characters derived from struct- 

 ural and proportional differences, uotablj' in tlie size of tlie frontal 

 and the interuasal shields. 



Asa rule E. faliuns differs from E. enri/xanthus in having the second 

 row of temporals consisting of only one shield against two in latter; 

 but this character is by no means constant. 



The Harlkquix Snake. 



Flaps fiilrins, * (I^iuuteus). 



Plate 1. 



1766. — Coluber fill rius, Linn^.us, Syst. Nat., 12 ed., I, p. 381. — Daudin, Hist. Nat. 

 Rept., VII, p. 300 (1K03).— Say, Sillim. Am. Jouru. Sc, i, 1819, p. 262.— 

 EIups fidriiis Fitzinger, Neue Class. Rept., p. 61 (1826). — Holbhook, 

 N. Am. Herpet., 1 ed., ii, p. 87(1838);— 2ed., in, p. 49 (1812).— DeKay, 

 Zool. N. Y., Ill, p. 5S (1812).— GiRARD, in Paird and Girard, Cat. N. 

 Am. Serpents, p. 21 (1853). — Lk Coxte, South. Med. Surg. Journ., ix, 

 1853, pp. 651, 6.52. — Dumeril and Bibron, Erpet. Gen., vii, ii, p. 1215 

 (1854).— GiiNTHER, Cat. Coliib. Snakes Pr. Mas., p. 235 (1858).— Cope, 

 Proc. Phila. Acad., 18.59. p. 344 (I860).— Cope, Pull. U. S. Nat. Mus.,No. 

 17, p. 24 (1880).— Cope, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xii, 1888, p. 398 (1889). 

 —Jan, Prodr. Icon. Ophid., p. 6 (1859).— Jan, Elenco Sist. Olid., p. 113 

 (1863). — Mattiie.s, Denkschr. Naturw. Ges. Isis, 1860, p. 52.— Voigt- 

 lander, Denkschr. Naturw. Ges. Isis, 1860 p. 64. — Smith, Rep. Geol. 

 Surv. Ohio, iv, p. 676 (1882).— Garman, N. Am. Ophid., pp. 105, 168 

 (1883).— Garman, Bull. Essex Inst., xxiv, p. 5 (1892).— True, Amer. 

 Naturalist, xvii, 1883, p. 27.— True, in Hammond's Sou h Carolina, p. 

 235 (1883).— Yarrow, in Buck's Ref. Handb. Med. Sc, vi, p. 166 (1888). 

 —Jordan, Man. Vert. North. U. S.,5ed., p. 198 (1S88).— Ferreira. 

 Jorn. Acad. Sc. Lisbon (2) ii, Sept. 1891 (p. 91).— Barringer, Yen. 

 Rept. U. S., p. 2 (1891).— Bn-LER, Journ. Cincinnati Soc. Nat. Hist., 

 1892, p. 178.— Hay, Batr. and Rept. Indiana, p. 121 (1893).— Vipera fuhia, 

 Harlan, Journ. Phila. Acad., v, ii, 1827. p. 364.— Harlan, Med. Phys. 

 Researches, p. 127 (1835). 



1802.— Coluber fiilrus, Shaw, Gen. Zool., iii, i, p. 469.— Latreille, Hist. Nat. 

 Rept., IV, p. 140 (\802).—EIapsfiiInis, Hoy, Smiths. Rep., 1864, p. 433.— 

 GuNTHER, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 18.59, p. 85.— Bigney, Proc. Md. Ac. 

 Sc, 1891, p. 151 (1892). 



1825. — Coluber fuJvias, var. ^H), Harlan, Journ. Phila. Acad., v, i, p. 155.— Har- 

 lan, Med. Phys. Res., p. 180 (1835). 



1853. — Flaps tenere, Girard, in Baird and Girard, Cat. N. Am. Serpents, pp. 2?, 

 156. — Matthes, Denkschr. Naturw. Ges. Isis, 1860, p. .52.— Garman, 

 Bull. Essex. Inst., xxiv, ]>. 5 (1892). 



1853. — Flaps tristis, Girard, in Baird and Girard, Cat. N. Am. Serpents, p. 23. — 

 Matthes, Denkschr. Naturw. Ges. Isis, 1860, p. 52.— Yarrow, Bull. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 24, p. 82 (1883). 



* From the Latin falvias, for fulous, tawny; misnamed from the the color of an 

 alcoholic specimen. 



