282 Illinois Sf((fe Lahondort/ of Natural Hisfo)-y. 



Color above uniform bluish black. Beneath brig;ht brick- 

 red, with broken or complete transverse bluish black bands 

 which are continuous at the sides with downward extensions 

 of the black of the dorsal surface. The red of the ventral sur- 

 face extends upward on the sides between the black bars to 

 the third or fourth row of dorsal scales. Head olive-brown 

 above, uniform or marked with red. Posterior supralabials 

 reddish brown with black central spots. Inferior surface of 

 the head brownish anteriorly, becoming pale salmon-red be- 

 hind, many of the plates with black central spots. The trans- 

 verse black bars alternate on the posterior part of the tail, and 

 are wanting toward the tip. 



Total length of an example from Union Co., 38.50; tail, 

 (125. 



Southern Illinois. Frequent. Wabash Valley (Kidgway), 

 Bluff Lake, Union Co. 



This is a beautiful serpent with the scales of the dorsal 

 surface like polished ebony. " Not uncommon as far north as 

 Vincennes. A living female with eggs was sent to the Na- 

 tional Museum from Wheatland, Ind." (Kidgway). "Com- 

 mon around the Bluff Lakes [Union Co. | during August and 

 September.'' (C.W.Butler.) 



Oyolophis, Gunther. 



Giinther, Cat. Coll. Serp. in Brit. Mus., Pt. I.. 1858, p. 119. 

 Bd. and Gir., Chlorosuma, Cat N. A. Rept., Pt. 1., 1853, p. 108. 



Dorsal scales perfectly smooth, in. fifteen rows. Anal 

 ])late divided. Rostral normal. Two internasals. Two pre- 

 frontals. One nasal, nostril opening in its middle. Loreal 

 present. One anteorbital. Two postorbitals. Small, slender; 

 head distinct from body; tail moderately long. 



Cyclophis vernalis, Harlan. Green Snake. 



C(>/ifh(^r veriHilis. Harlan, .Tour. Acad. Nat. 8ci. Phila., V., 1827, 

 p. 3f)l.— Holbr., N. A. Herp., 1842, III., p. 79, pi. 17.— De Kay, 

 Nat. Hist. N. Y., L, Zodl. III., Rept. and Amph.. 1842, p. 40, 

 pi. 11, fig. 22. 



c/ii'inimiiui ceritidis, Bd. and Gir., Cat. N. A. Rept., Pt. I., 1853, 

 \\ 108.— Kenn., Trans. 111. State Agr. Soc, 1853-54,1.. p. 592. 



