66 COLUBRID ®. 
d. Ye. (Se. 27; V. 201; Coimbra. Dr. Lopes Vieira 
C. 60). PA. 
e. Hgr. (Se. 27; V. 204; Coimbra. Prof. Barboza du 
ASA; 0.68). Bocage [ P.]. 
f. do (Se. 27; V. 205; Alfeite, Portugal. Prof. Barboza du 
C. 63). Bocage [P.]}. 
g. Yg. (Se. 27; V. 213; Aldegallega, Portugal. Prof. Barboza du 
C. 60). Bocage [P.]. 
h, Skull. Montpellier. 
42, Coluber arizone. 
Arizona elegans, Kennicott, Rep. U.S. Mex. Bound. Surv. ii. Rept. 
p. 18, pl. xiii, (1859); Bocourt, Miss. Sc. Mex., Rept. p. 676 
(1888). 
Pityophis elegans, Cope, Check-list N. Am. Rept. p. 39 (1875). 
Rhinechis elegans, Cope, Proc. Am. Philos. Soc, xxiii. 1886, p. 284, 
and Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xiv. 1892, p. 688. 
Snout strongly projecting ; rostral as deep as broad, forming an 
acute angle posteriorly, the portion visible from above measuring 
nearly two thirds its distance from the frontal; internasals nearly 
as long as the prefrontals; frontal a little longer than broad, a little 
shorter than its distance from the end of the snout or than the 
parietals; loreal longer than deep; one pree- and two postoculars ; 
temporals 2+ 3 or 4; eight upper labials, fourth and fifth 
entering the eye; five lower labials in contact with the anterior 
chin-shields, which are as long as or longer than the posterior. 
Scales smooth, in 27 to 31 rows. Ventrals 212-227; anal entire ; 
subcaudals 46-59. Pale brown above ; the vertebral line yellowish, 
but interrupted by a series of larger, oval, transverse, dark-edged 
brown spots ; a brown streak from the eye to the angle of the mouth; 
lower parts white. 
Total length 1020 millim. ; tail 160. 
Southern United States, from California to the Mississippi; North 
Mexico. 
a. 3 (Sc. 29; V. 212; Duval Co., Texas. W. Taylor, Esq. [C.], 
C. 59). ‘ 
b. 2 (Se. 27; V. 227; Warner’s Ranch, San Prof. C. Eigenmann 
C. 46). Diego Co., Cali- LeaIF 
fornia. 
43. Coluber deppii. 
Elaphis pleurostictus, Dum. § Bibr. vii. p. 244 (1854), 
deppei, Dum. § Bibr. t. c. p. 268. 
Pituophis vertebralis, Giinth. Cat. p. 86 (1858). 
Arizona jani, Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1860, p. 369. 
Pituophis mexicanus (non D. § B.), Jan, Icon. Gén. 22, pl. ii. fig. 1 
1867). 
gite deppei, Jan, I. c. fig. 2; Duges, La Naturaleza, (2) i. 1888, 
p. 123, pl. xiii. fig. 15; Giinth. Biol. C.-Am., Rept. p. 124 (1894). 
