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museum. It was collected by Prof. F. H. Snow in the spring 

 of 1893. Professor Cragin collected one specimen at Garden 

 City. One specimen from Medicine Lodge is in the museum 

 of Washburn College. 



CARPHOPHIOPS Geuvais. 



Cnrphnp/n'.fips Gervais, Diet. Hist. Nat. Univers., per D'Orbigny, III, 1843, 

 p. 191. 



Carjihophis Dumeril, Prod. Class. Ophid., 1853, pp. 43-46. 



CcUi.ta Baird and Girard, Cat. N. Amer. Rept., Pt. I, Serp,, 1853, p. 129. 



Scales smooth, in thirteen rows. No antorbital. One na.sal. 

 Head very small, depressed, not distinct from body. Eye small. 

 Anal divided. 



Carphophiops amcenus Say. 



Wurm Saake, Western Ground Snake. 

 CoIhIkt amcenus Say, Jour. PlChA. Nat. Sci. Phila., IV, 1825, p. 237. 

 Cr.lutn anxrna Baird and Girard, Cat. N. .\iiier. Rept., 1853, p. 129. 

 Carphophis amwnUi Dumeril and Bibron, Erp. Gen., VII, 1854, p. 132. 

 Carphophiops aniirnus and C. vermis Cope, Check-list N. Amer. Batr. 

 Rept., 1875, p. 34. 



Fig. 27. 

 Carphophiops amwDUs Say. 



Scales smooth, in thirteen rows ; first row broader than long. 

 Occipitals short, broad. Frontal about as wide as long, hexa- 

 gonal ; occasionally the anterior angle is very large and the 

 lateral margins are curved, meeting in a point behind. Super- 

 ciliaries very short, broader posteriorly than anteriorly. Pre- 

 frontals short and wide. luternasals very small, concavo-convex, 

 with the convex margin in front. Occasionally the internasals 



