Reptiles and Amphibians of Illinois. 307 



Virginia, Bd. and Gir. 



Bd. and Gir., Cat. N. A. Kept., Pt. I., 1853, p. 127. 

 Dorsal scales smooth, in fifteen or seventeen rows. Anal 

 plate divided. Rostral normal. Two internasals. Two pre- 

 frontals. Two nasals, nostril in the posterior edge of the an- 

 terior plate. Loreal large, with the prefrontal bounding the 

 orbit in front. No anteorbitals. Two postorbitals. Small. 



Dorsal scales in 17 rows V. elegans. 



Dorsal scales in 15 rows V- valeric. 



Virginia elegans, Kenn. 



Virginia elegans, Kenn., Proc. Acad. Kat. Sci. Phila., 1859, p. 

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

 5,1883, p. 31; Bull. Chicago Acad. Sci., 1883.— S. Carman, 

 Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., 1883, pp. 98, 166. 



" Resembles V. valerian ; vertical and occipital plates nar- 

 rower. Dorsal scales very narrow and elongated, much more 

 so than V. valerice, disposed in seventeen rows. Color uniform 

 light olivaceous brown above; dull yellowish white beneath." 



"Readily distinguished from the nearly allied V. valerice 

 by the narrower dorsal scales iji seventeen rows instead of 

 fifteen as in that species." 



"Heavily timbered regions of southern Illinois" (Kenni- 

 cott), Mt. Carrael (Ridgway). 



Virginia valerise, Bd. and Grir. 



Virginia valerice, Bd. and Gir., Cat. N. A. Rept., Pt. I., 1853, p. 

 127.— Bd., U. S. Pac. R. R. Expl., 1859, X., Rept., pi. 33, fig. 94. 

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

 1883, p. 31; Bull. Chicago Acad. 8ci., 1883. —S. Carman, 

 Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., 1883, pp. 98, 166, pi. 7, fig. 3. 



Small. Head scarcely wider than neck. Tail short, taper- 

 ing. Rostral about as high as wide. Internasals present. 

 Prefrontals reaching the orbit. Frontal hexagonal. Nostril 

 opening in posterior edge of anterior nasal plate. Loreal elon- 

 gate, reaching the orbit. No anteorbitals. Two postorbitals. 

 Supralabials six, fifth largest. lufralabials six. fourth largest. 



