88. CORONELLA. 197 
the head, separated by narrow pale lines and followed by one or 
more black bands across the nape ; lips and gular region yellowish ; 
lower parts whitish, the borders of the shields blackish. 
West Africa. 
a. Yg. (V. 187; C. 58). W. Africa. Sir J. Richardson [P. }. 
(Type of Coryphodon margaritiferus.) 
7. Coronella getula. 
Coluber getulus, Zinn. S. N. i. p. 882 (1766); Catesby, Nat. Hist. 
Carol. pl. hii. (1771); Daud. Rept. vi. p. 314, pl. Ixxvii. fig. 1 
(1803) ; Harl. Journ. Ac. Philad. v. 1827, p. 358, and Med, Phys. 
Res. p. 122 (1835) ; DeKay, N. Y. Faun. iii. p. 37, pl. x. fig. 21 
(1842) ; Giinth. Cat, p. 249 (1858). 
? Coluber eximius, Hari. ll. cc. p. 360. 
Coluber (Ophis) californiz, Blainv, N. Ann. Mus. iv. 1835, p. 292, 
plexxvu.cne, 1 
Herpetodryas getulus, Schleg. Phys. Serp. ii. p. 198 (1837). 
Coronella getulus, Holbr. N. Am. Herp. iii. p. 95, pl. xxi. (1842) ; 
Dum. § Bibr. vii. p. 616 (1854) ; Jan, Arch. Zool. Anat. Phys. ii. 
1863, p. 244, and Icon. Gén. 12, pl. vi. & 14, pl. v. (1865). 
sayl, Holbr. l. ep. 99, pl. xxu.; Dum. § Bibr. p. 619; Giinth. 
Cat. p.41; Jan, Ul. ce. 
Ophibolus boylii, Baird § Gir. Cat. N. Am. Rept. p. 82 (1858). 
splendidus, Baird & Gir. 1. c. p. 83. 
-—— sayi, Baird § Gir. l. c. p. 84, and in Marcy’s Explor, Red Riv. 
p- 228, pl. vil. (1853). 
getulus, Baird & Gir. 1. ec. p. 85; Cope, Check-list N. Am. 
Rept. p. 37 (1875); Garm. N. Am. Rept. p. 68, pl. v. figs. 3 & 4 
(1883); Cope, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xiv. 1892, p. 611; H. Garm. 
Bull. Iilin. Lab. iii. 1892, p. 297; Hay, Batr. § Rept. Indiana, 
p. 110 (1893). 
Coronella balteata, Hallow. Proc. Ac. Philad. 1853, p. 226, and Rep. 
Explor. Surv. R. R. x. pt. 4, pl. v. (1857). 
californize, Dum. § Bibr. p. 625. 
Lampropeltis sayi, Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1860, p. 254 
splendida, Cope, /.c. p. 255. 
getula, Cope, l. c. 
boyli, Cope, 1. c. 
boylii, var. conjuncta, Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1861, p. 301. 
Coronella pseudogetulus, Jan, ll. cc. p. 247, Icon. 12, pl. vi. fig. 2. 
Ophibolus californiz, Cope, Check-list, p. 37. 
getulus niger, eiseni, multicinctus, Yarrow, Proc. U.S. Nat. 
Mus. v. 1882, p. 438. 
Snout slightly prominent; rostral about once and a half as broad 
as deep, the portion visible from above measuring about one third 
its distance from the frontal; suture between the internasals about 
half as long as that between the prefrontals ; frontal considerably 
longer than broad, as long as its distance from the end of the snout, 
shorter than the parietals; loreal as long as deep, or deeper than 
long, or longer than deep, sometimes absent; one pre- and two 
(rarely three) postoculars; temporals 2+2 or 2+38; seven upper 
labials, third and fourth entering the eye; four lower labials in 
contact with the anterior chin-shields, which are as long as or 
