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of small spots or blotches, or both. The tail is dark 

 brown, spotted above with white or yellow. The gastro- 

 steges are yellow or white, unicolor or blotched with 

 brown as in Z. hoylii. 



Length to anus 277 342 



Length of tail 44 49 



Distribution. — The California Milk Snake has been 

 found in San Diego, Riverside, and Fresno Counties. 



Habits. — Unknown, but probably like those of L. 

 boylii. 



Genus 29. RHINOCHEILUS. 



Rhinocheilus, B. & G., Cat. N. A. Kept., I, Serp., 1853, p. 120 

 (type lecontei). 



The body is rather slender, with short, tapering tail. 

 The head is slightly distinct from the neck, and ends 

 in a narrow snout which projects far beyond the lower 

 jaw. The head-plates are normal. The nasal plates 

 rarely unite above the nostril. One (or two) preoculars 

 and two (or three) postoculars are present, as is also a 

 small loreal. Temporals are normally two followed by 

 three. The scales are smooth, in seventeen to twenty- 

 five rows, with apical pits. The anal plate is divided. 

 Urosteges are in one series, except usually toward the 

 end of the tail. The eye is of moderate size, with 

 round pupil. 



54. — Rhinocheilus lecontei Baird & Girard. Long-nosed 

 Snake. 



Rhinocheilus Lecontei, B. & G., Cat. N. A. Rept., Pt. I, Serp., 1853, 

 p. 120 (type locality San Diego, California); Baird, U. S. 

 Pac. R. R. Surv., X, 1859, Pt. Ill, pi. XXIII, figs. 90; Baird, 

 U. S. Max. Bound. Surv., Rept., 1859, pi. XX; Bocourt, Miss. 

 Sci. au Max., 1886, p. 602, pi. XL, figs. 7-7d; Cope, Proc. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus., XIV, 1891, p. 606; Boulenger, Cat. Snakes, Brit. 

 Mus., II, 1894, p. 212. 



Description. — Head round and snout projecting and 



