198 COLUBRID, 
longer than the posterior. Scales in 21 or 23 (rarely 19) rows. 
Ventrals 198-240; anal entire; subcaudals 41-65. Dark brown 
or black above, with yellow or white markings; labials and lower 
parts black and white or black and yellow. 
Total length 1780 millim. ; tail 200. 
North America. 
A. Above with small yellow spots or narrow yellow transverse 
bands restricted to the back. (C. sayi.) 
a. 6 (Sc. 19; V. 209; C. 39). Indiana. 
& fo (Se. 21; V. 211;.C, 46). Arkansas. 
ce. 9 (Sc. 21; V. 216; C, 45). Louisiana. 
d,e-f. 2 (Se. 21; V.207; C.49) New Orleans. M. Sallé [C.]. 
& yg. (Se. 21, 21; V. 201, 198 ; 
©.'50, 53). 
g. & (Sc. 23; V. 218; C. 53). Duval County, W. Taylor, Esq. 
Texas, [C.]. 
hz. 3 (Sc. 21; V. 209; C. 54) Texas. 
& 2 (Se. 21; V. 206; C. 50). 
k. Skull. New Orleans. 
B. Above with yellow transverse bands connected with their 
fellows on the sides. (C. getula.) 
a. Her. (Sc. 21; V.210; C.39). District of Columbia. Smithsonian Inst. 
b-d. 3 (Se. 23; V. 216; C.52), Marion Co.,Florida. A. Erwin Brown, 
© (Sc.238;3) V. 218; C2), & Esq. [ P.]. 
her. (Sc. 23; V. 214; C. 47). 
e,f- & (Sc. 21; V.217; C.50) N. America. 
& yg. (Sc. 21; V. 211; C. 50). 
C. More or less complete whitish annuli round the body, 
widening on the belly. (C. californie, C. boylit.) 
a. 6 (Sc. 23; V. 225; C, 56). Camp Taylor, Prof. C. Eigen- 
ow Marion Co., Cal. mann [C.]. 
b-d. 3 (Se. 23; V. 228; C.46), San Diego, Cali- Christiania Mus. 
@ (Sc. 23; V. 235; C.54), & fornia. 
yg. (Sc. 23; V. 226; C. 54). 
e. Yg. (Se. 23; V.228; C. 54). California. Smithsonian Inst. 
f. Yg. (Sc. 21; V. 218; C. 55). California, Lord Walsing- 
ham [P.]. 
8, Coronelia calligaster. 
Coluber calligaster, Harlan, Journ, Ac. Philad. v. 1827, p. 859, and 
Med. Phys. Res. p. 122 (1885). 
guttatus (non L.), Schleg. Phys. Serp. ii. p. 168 (1837). 
Coronella rhombomaculata, Holbr. N. Am. Herp. iii. p. 103, pl. xxiii. 
(1842); Jan, Arch. Zool. Anat. Phys. ii. 1863, p. 248, and Icon. 
Gén. 17, pl. ii. figs. 1 & 2 (1866). 
Ophibolus rhombomaculatus, Baird § Gir. Cat. N. Am. Rept. p. 86 
(1853). 
Ablabes triangulum, var. calligaster, Hallow. Proc. Ac. Philad. 1856, 
p. 244, 
