EUTAINIA. 



3T 



tinct lateral stripe. Tlie posterior edges of each abdominal scutella 

 shows a black margined spot on each side. The dorsal line is gene- 

 rally a single scale in width, occasionally including portions of the 

 lateral, and itself sometimes encroached upon by the black spots. 

 Each spot is about a scale or a scale and a half long, and about three 

 scales broad. The number in the dorsal series from the head to the 

 anus varies from 56 to 60. Posterior edges of scales very slightly 

 emarginate, if at all. All are decidedly keeled. 



