292 Illinois State Lahordtorij of Natural Histoi-y. 



Elaphis guttatus, Linn. Fox Snake, Corn Snake. 



Var. guttatus. 



Coluber i/itttattis; Linn., Syst. Nfjt , ed. 12, 1766, p. 385.— Holbrook, 



N. A. Herp., 1842, III., p. 65, pi. 14. 

 H<-otophis guttatus, Bd. and Gir., Cat. N. A. Rept., Ft. I., 1853, p. 78. 

 EJapJns guttatus, Dum. et Bibr. Erp. Gi'-n., VII., 1854, p. 273. 

 Cnluher guttatus, Davis and Rice, Bnll. 111. State Lab. Nat. Hist., 



I., No. 5, 1883, p. 37 ; Bull. Chicago Acad. Sci., 18S3. 

 Elaphis guttatus, IS. Garman, Mem. Mus. Conip. Zool., 1883, pp. 



55, 152, pi. 4, lig. 1. 



Var. vulpinus. 



Hcoioplils ru/jtiuns, Bd. and Gir., Cat. N. A. Rept., Pt. I., 1853, p. 



75.— Ivenn., U. S. Pac. R. R. Expl., 1853-55, XII., Hook II., p. 



299. 

 Coluhey ■mdplnus, Davis and Rice, Bull. 111. State Lab. Nat. Hist., 



I., No. 5, 1883, p. 36 ; Bull. Chicago Acad. Sci., 1883. 

 Elapliis gutt(ttus,y?ii\ tvilpiuus, S. Garman, Mem. Mus. Comp. 



Zor)l., 1883, pp. 56, 153. 



Body moderately slender. Head large. Carina? of dorsal 

 scales faint, several outer rows smooth. Rostral plate wider 

 than high, emarginate beneath and with a Innate impression 

 above the emargination. Frontal plate about as wide as long. 

 One large anteorbital. Two postorbitals. Supralabials eight, 

 eye over the fourth and fifth, seventh largest. About eleven 

 infralabials, fifth and sixth much the largest. Dorsal scales in 

 from twenty-five to twenty-seven rows, seven or more outer 

 smooth on the neck, farther back only two perfectly smooth. 

 Ventrals 200-235. Subcaudals 65-79. 



Ground color above grayish yellow or brownish, with a 

 dorsal series of large hazel blotches and on each side two or 

 three series of smaller blotches, the blotches of the lowest 

 series extending upon the abdominal scutella? ; all the spots 

 obscurely margined with black. Beneath yellowish, checkered 

 with black. Head brown above, uniform or with a dark bar 

 reaching from orbit to orbit across the prefrontals and with 

 others from the eye to the mouth. Two elongate brown spots 

 on the neck, behind the head, may unite anteriorly upon the 

 parietals. 



Total length 25.50 ; tail, S.25. 



