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KANSAS UNIVERSITY SCIENCE BULLETIN. 



This snake is quite rare in the western part of Kansas. 

 None have been reported from the eastern part. 



Eutaenia sirtalis Lincieua. 

 Coluber sirtalis LinuEeus, Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1758, p. 222. 

 Eutaenia sirtalis Baird and Girard, Cat. N. Amer. Kept., Pt. I, Serp., 1853, 



p. 31. 

 Eutaenia sirtalis Cope, Check-list N. Amer. Batr. Rept., 1875, p. 41. 



Body rather stout. Tail one-fourth to one-fifth total length. 

 Head distinct. Temporals 1-1, 1-2, or 1-3. Oculars 1-3 (occ. 

 1-2 or 1-4) . Scales in nineteen rows (occ. 17 or 21) . Usually 

 three rows of spots on each side of the dorsal stripe. Parietal 

 spot usually present. 



KEY TO KANSAS SUBSPECIES. 



1.— Spots distinct; not separated by red interspaces E. sirtalis sirtalis. 



2. — Spots often obscure; separated by red interspaces. . E. sirtalis parietalis. 



Eutaenia sirtalis parietalis Say. 



Say's Garter Snake. 

 Coluber parietalis Say, Long's Exped. Rocky Mts., Pt. I, 1823, p. 180. 

 Eutaenia parietalis Baird and Girard, Cat. N. Amer. Rept., Pt. I, Serp., 



1852, p. 28. 

 Eutaenia sirtalis parietalis, Cope, Yarrow's Reptilia, U. S. Geog. Surv. W. 



100th Mer., V, 1875, p. 54G. 

 Eutaenia sirtalis dorsalis, Eutaenia sirtalis obscura, Eutaenia elegans 



ordinoides, Cope, Free. U. S. Nat. Mus., XIV, 1892, pp. 654-664. 



Fig. 5. 

 Eutaenia sirtalis parietalis Say. 



Nineteen rows of scales, outer row faintly keeled, other rows 

 strongly keeled ; scales usually slightly notched. The frontal 

 is broad in front ; its interior border is convex ; no sharp an- 

 gle in the lateral border. Superciliaries tapering to a point in 



