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Variety niger, Linn. 



Mr. Ridgway reports this variety from Mt. Carmel. It is 

 unknown to me. 



Ophibolus doliatus, Linu. 



(Uilnher dolUiUis, Linn., Syst. Nat.,ed. 12, 17H6, 1., p. 379.— Harlan, 



Jour. Acad. Nat. hei. Phila., 1827, V., p. 362. 

 CoroneUa doliata, Holbr. (not of Duna. et Eibr.), N. A. Herp., 



1842. p. 105, pi. 24. 

 Ojthiholus doliatus, subsp. cocci/ieKs, Davis and Rice, Bull. 111. 



State Lab. Nat. Hist., I., No. 5, 1883, p. 34; Bull. Chicago 



Acad. Sci., 1883. 

 Opiiihnhis doliatus, S. Garman, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., 1883, 



pp. (U, 154, pi. 5, fig. 2. 



Body slender, cylindrical. Tail short. Dorsal scales smooth. 

 Rostral plate wide. Frontal wide and short. One anteorbital. 

 Two postorbitals. Loreal present. Supralabials seven. Infra- 

 labials eight. Dorsal scales in nineteen rows. Veatrals 

 169-176. Subcaudals 31-48 pairs. 



Color above light red, with from twenty to twenty-five 

 pairs of transverse black bands which are continuous about the 

 body, or are interrupted on the abdomen. Between each pair is 

 a yellowish band. 



Occurs in southern Illinois according to Davis and Rice. 

 It is probably rare. I have not seen it. 



This species may be known from the variety doliatus of 

 0. triangulus by the fewer rows of dorsal scales and the char- 

 acter of the transverse black lines. 



Ophibolus elapsoideus, Holbr. 



Calamaria aUvpsoidea., Holbr., N. A. Herp., 1842, III., p. 119, pi. 28. 

 Osceola elapsoidea, Bd. and Gir., Cat. N. A. Rept., Ft. I., 1853, p. 



133.— Davis and Rice, Bull. 111. State Lab. Nat. Hist., I., No. 5. 



1883, p. 33; Bull. Chicago Acad. Sci., 1883. 

 Ophibolus doliatus, var. elapsoideus, S. Garman, Mem. Mus. 



Comp. Zool., 1883, pp. 65, 155. 

 Ophibolus elcqisoideus, S. Garman, List. N. A. Rept. and Batr., 



Bull. Essex Inst., 1884. 



Small. Body slender. Tail short. Rostral plate wide. 

 Frontal wide and short, subhexagonal. Loreal absent, its place 



