678 REPTILES—COLUBRIDZ. 
j. Post-abdominal scutella bifid; dorsal rows of scales not exceed 21. k. 
k. With a yellow ring round the neck. - : : 5 .  DIADOPHIS. 
k. Without cervical ring. l. 
l. Dorsal scales in 15 rows. : : : é - : .  LIOPELTIs. 
l, Dorsal scales in 17 or more rows. 2 . = : .  BASCANIUM. 
m. Dorsal scales in 19 rows. 1. 
m. Dorsal rows of scales not exceeding 17. 0. 
nm. Prefrontals one. - ; : : ; : : : FARANCIA. 
n. Prefrontals two. : aes : ABASTOR. 
o. Postorbitals two; dorsal aaride in 15 or 7 rows. - 4 . VIRGINIA. 
o. Postorbitals one; dorsal scales in 13 rows. ; 4 ; CARPHOPHIS. 
Genus EUTANIA. Baird and Girard. 
Body varying from long and slender to strong and moderately thick ; cephalic plates 
normal; anteorbitals one; postorbitals usually three; loral present ; nasals two; pre- 
frontals two; labials and inframaxillaries moderately large; dorsal scales strongly 
carinated, in19-2lrows; gastrosteges, 140-170; post-abdominal scutella entire ; urosteges, 
50-120, all bifid; ground color dark, with a vertebral and two lateral stripes; habits 
terrestrial ; species ovoviviparous. 
Lateral stripe on the third and fourth rows of scales; body slender; tail nearly one- 
third of total length. a. 
Lateral stripe on second and third rows of scales; body stouter; tail one-fourth of 
total length. - - ° 5 < ; 5 5 : : E. SIRTALIS, 
a. Urosteges less than 110. : ; é , : 5 ; : EK. PROXIMA. 
a, Urosteges 115 or more. < 2 : , : : s : E. SAURITA. 
EUTNIA PROXIMA Say. 
Say’s Garter Snake. 
Coluber proximus, SAY, HARLAN, 
Tropidonotus proximus, BorK. 
Eutenia proxima, BAIRD and GIRARD, COPE, JORDAN. 
General color above black; vertebral band varying from yellow to brown; lateral 
stripes green or yellowish to white ; occipital plates with a yellow spot about the cen- 
ter of the commissural line ; abdomen and under parts varying from dingy white to oliva- 
ceous or green ; vertical plate elongated, pentagonal, the posterior sides much the shorter, 
the lateral edges longest and arcuate to receive the projecting part of superciliaries ; nasals 
two ; rostral broad, but not very high ; upper labials eight, lower nine or ten ; temporal 
region covered with large plates; inframaxillaries reaching to the eighth lower labial ; 
loral rhomboidal ; eye over the fourth and fifth upper labial ; dorsal rows of scales nine- 
teen, all carinated ; vertebral band covering one and two half rows of scales; lateral 
stripes on the third and fourth rows from the abdomen ; color below the lateral stripes 
somewhat lighter than above; body stouter than Lutenia saurita ; tail about two sevenths 
the total length; gastrosteges, 170-180; urosteges, 80-85. Length, 2% feet; head, 1 
inch; tail, 9 inches; transverse diameter of head 7} lines ; of neck 5} lines; circumfer- 
ence of body 24 inches. 
Habitat, ‘‘ California,” Montana, and Arkansas, to Wisconsin, Ohio, North Carolina, 
Louisiana, Texas, and Mexico. 
Rare in the State. 
