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In one specimen from Westport, N. Y., there is a well-defined 

 black line under the lateral stripe. 



CaAide. 156. 115. 19. 35. Vl\. S. F. Baird. 



«" 157.118.19. 261.9. " 



WasUngton. 157. 118. 19. 32 J. 9. " 



^Ycst'port, N.Y. _____ " 



Lancaster, Mass. — — — — — " 



Virginia. — — — — — C. Sanford. 



2. Htltilillia Faireyl, B. & G. — Body above blackish brown, with 

 three longitudinal stripes of uniform tint. Abdomen greenish white. 

 Stouter than E. saurita. Head large. Tail rather less than one-third total 

 length. 



Stn. Tropidonoius saiiriia? Schleg. Ess. Physiogn. Serp. Part, discr. 

 1837, 321. 



A dorsal stripe one and two half-scales wide, and one lateral on 

 each side on the 3d and 4th row, of the same color, (greenish yellow.) 

 Scales broader and more rounded than in £". saxhrita; head stouter, 

 color different. Differs from E. jnvxima, in having all the longitu- 

 dinal stripes of the same color ; from U. saurita in a stouter body, and 

 in having the color below the lateral stripe the same as that above. 

 Body slender, but stouter than in U. saurita. The tail is propor- 

 tionally shorter than in E. saurita, but longer than in E. i^roxima. 

 Prairie Mer Rouge, La. 178. 115. 19. 30 J. 10. Jas. Fairie. 



« " 174.114.19. 26^.8. " 



" « 168. — 19. 29. — " 



3. Eutainia proxiina, B. & G. — Body stoutest of the division. 

 Black above ; three longitudinal stripes, the dorsal ochraceous yellow or 

 brown, lateral greenish white or yellow. Total length about three and a 

 half times that of the tail. 



Syn. Coluber proximus, Say in Long's Exped. to Rock. Mts. I, 1823, 187. 

 — Harl. Journ. Acad. Nat. Sc. Philad. V, 1827, 353. 



Deep brown almost black above and on the sides ; beneath green- 

 ish white. Dorsal stripe on one and two half-rows of scales, ochra- 

 ceous yellow, lateral stripe on the 3d and 4th rows of scales, greenish 

 yellow or white, markedly different in tint from the dorsal. Sides 



