RED OR CORN SNAKE. 691 
species) swallowing an Hutxnia or Striped Snake. He (Howey) struck 
the snake with the scythe, cutting it in two about three inches from its 
head, when to his surprise a tail stuck out. He drew it out, and then 
discovered it to be an EHutxnia, about two-thirds as long as the Ophibolus. 
It had, of course, been swallowed head foremost, and the head was nearly 
digested. 
OPHIBOLUS DOLIATUS Linneus. 
Red or Corn Snake. 
Coluber doliatus, LINNZUS, GMELIN, HARLAN. 
Coluber coccineus, BLUMENBACH, KirTLAND. 
Coronella coccinea, SCHLEGEL. 
Coronella doliata, HOLBROOK, GUNTHER. 
Ophibolus doliatus, et gentilis, BAIRD and GIRARD. 
Lampropeltis doliata, et Ophibolus doliatus, COPE. 
Rhinostoma coccinea, BAIRD and GIRARD. 
General color red, with from twenty-two to twenty-five pairs of transverse black 
bands, each inclosing a yellow spot ; head in front red, with a black ring on posterior of 
OCcipitals, passing forward on each side across the superciliaries and vertical to meet on 
the postfrontals, thus inclosing a large nearly triangular spot with the apex anteriorly; 
a black spot upon the sides of the haad, upon the temporals and posterior upper 
labials ; abdomen red, with dark spots; vertical plate nearly an equilateral triangle ; 
upper labials, 7, lower, 8; inframaxillaries reaching to posterior edge of fifth lower 
labial; dorsal scales in 21 or 23 rows; gastrosteges, 185-208; urosteges, 45-50. Length, 
24 feet ; head, { inch; tail, 3} inches; transverse diameter of head, 6 lines; of neck, 5 
lines ; circumference of body, 2 inches. 
Habitat, Delaware, Maryland, Mississippi, Arkansas, Kansas, and Illinois. 
Dr. Kirtland mentions having had a specimen sent to him labelled by 
Mr. Dorfeuille, which was said to have been taken in Ohio. It is 
accordingly inserted here, though it must be rare in the State. 
Genus COLUBER. Linnens. ( 
Scotophis, BarRD and GIRARD. 
Body large, attaining a length of four or five feet ; head elongated; vertical plate 
large and very broad ; poatfrontals attaining a great size ; prefrontals two, large ; rostral 
large, not projecting ; nasals two; loral present; anteorbitals one; postorbitals two; 
upper and lower labials large ; mouth deeply cleft; dorsal scales in 23 to 29 rows, the 
middle ones slightly carinated, the outer smooth; gastrosteges, 200-235; urosteges, 
65-93; post-abdeminal scutella bifid. 
*Dorsal scales in 25 rows. 4a. 
*Dorsal scales in 27, rarely 25 rows. 0b. 
*Dorsal scales in 29 rows. d. 
a. Gastrosteges, 200-210; tail at anus, large, tapering rapidly to a point. 
C. VULPINUS. 
