60. cOoLUBER. al, 
b-c. 3 (Se. 27; V. 231; Raleigh, N. Carolina. Messrs. Brimley [C.]. 
C. 88) & her. (Se. 27; 
V. 236; C. 78). 
B. Dark brown above, but with distinct traces of the large spots ; 
belly largely blotched with blackish. (C. alleghaniensis, Holbr., 
CO. lindheimert, B. & G.) 
a. od (Sc. 25; V. 232; Bloomington, Indiana. C. H. Bollman, Esq. 
C. 80) 
b& @ (Sc. 27; V. 288; Illinois. Smithsonian Instit. 
Crrat). [Pal 
C. Pale brown above, with large dark brown spots; yellowish 
inferiorly. (C. spiloides, D. & B.) 
a. & (Sc. 29; V. 232; New York. 
C. 
°). 
b. e (Se. 29; V. 231; Duval Co., Texas. W. Taylor, Esq. [C.]. 
C. 78). 
D. Spots as in C, combined with stripes as in E; belly with large 
brown spots. 
@ 2 (Sc. 27; V. 241; N. America. 
E. Pale brown above, with four dark brown or blackish stripes ; 
belly yellowish, without or with a few brown spots. (C. guadri- 
vitiatus, Holbr.) 
a,b. & (Se. 27, 27; V. N. America. 
237, 241; C. 84, 89). 
24. Coluber conspicillatus. 
Coluber conspicillatus, Bove, Isis, 1826, p. 211; Schleg. Phys. Serp. 
ii. p. 171 (1837), and Faun. Japon., Rept. p. 85, pl. iii. (1858) ; 
Giinth. Cat. p. 91 (1858). 
Elaphis conspicillatus, Dum. §& Bibr. vii. p. 285 (1854) ; Hilgendorf, 
Sitzb. ges. Naturf. Freunde, 1880, p. 114. 
Coronella conspicillata, Jan, ‘Arch, Zool, Anat. Phy ys. ii. 1863, p. 249, 
and Icon. Gén. 14, pl. vi. ‘fig. 1 (1865). 
Callopeltis conspicillatus, Giglioli, Proce. Zool. Soe. 1887, p. 595. 
Rostral nearly twice as broad as deep, visible from above ; inter- 
nasals much broader than long, shorter than the prefrontals ; 
frontal a little longer than broad, as long as its distance from the 
end of the snout, shorter than the parietals; loreal longer than 
deep; one pre- and two postoculars; temporals 1+2 or 242 
seven upper labials, third and fourth entering the eye; four lower 
labials in contact with the anterior chin-shields, which are a little 
longer than the posterior. Scales smooth, or faintly keeled on the 
- posterior part of the body, in 21 rows. Ventrals distinctly angu- 
late laterally, 200-224; anal divided; subcaudals 60-76. Pale 
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