88. CORONELLA. 203 
Total length 780 millim.; tail 125. 
Arizona and California. 
a. 2° (V. 200s E360). Sta. Cruz, California. Hr. A. Forrer [C.]. 
13. Coronella micropholis. 
Coronella doliata, part., Dum. §. Bibr. vii. p. 621 (1854) ; Giinth. Cat. 
p- 41 (1858). 
Lampropeltis micropholis, Cope, Proc, Ac. Philad. 1860, p. 257. 
polyzona, Cope, 1. c. p. 258. 
amaura, Cope, l. c. 
Coronella formosa, Jan, Arch. Zool. Anat. Phys. ii. 1865, p. 241, and 
‘Icon. Gén. 14, pl. iv. tig. B (1865) ; Bocowrt, Miss. Sc. Mex., Rept. 
p. 612, pl. xxxix. tig. 3 (1886). 
doliata, var. conjuncta, Jan, Ul. ce. p. 242, fig. C; Bocourt, 1. ¢. 
p. 611, fig. 6. 
doliata, var. formosa, Bouleng. Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 1880, 
. 44. 
Ophibolus polyzonus, Sumichrast, Lull. Soc. Zool. France, 1880, 
p- 181. 
triangulus, var. zonatus, Garm. N. Am. Rept. p. 67 (1885). 
Coronella formosa, vars. anomala, oligozona, polyzona, e¢ abnorma, 
Bocourt, 1. c. figs. 4, 7, 8. 
Ophibolus doliatus polyzonus, occipitalis, e¢ annulatus, Cope, Proc. 
US. Nat. Mus. 1888, p. 3882, and Am. Nat. 1895, p. 1067, 
pl. xxvii. fig. 1. 
Lampropeltis annulata, Stejneger, Proc. U.S. Nat, Mus. xiv. 1891, 
. 005, 
Coronella annulata, Giinth. Biol. C.-Am., Rept. p. 109, pl. xxxviii. 
(1893). 
Snout slightly prominent; rostral about once and a half as deep 
as broad, the portion visible from above measuring one third to 
two thirds its distance from the frontal ; suture between the inter- 
nasals shorter than that between the prefrontals; frontal as long 
as or a little longer than broad, as long as its distance from the 
end of the snout, as long as or a little shorter than the parietals ; 
loreal usually longer than deep; one pre- and two postoculars ; 
temporals 2+ 2 or 2+3 (exceptionally 14+2); seven (rarely eight) 
upper labials, third and fourth (or fourth and fifth) entering the 
eye; four lower labials in contact with the anterior chin-shields, 
which are as long as or longer than the posterior. Scales in 21 or 
23 (exceptionally 19 or 25) rows. Ventrals obtusely angulate 
laterally, 204-240; anal entire; subcaudals 46-60. Scarlet, 
usually with pairs of black rings enclosing yellow ones; the red 
scales may be tipped with black; head black above, usually with a 
continuous or interrupted yellow band across the snout and 
another across the occiput; the first black ring usually extends 
across the throat. 
Total length 1370 millim.; tail 170. 
America, from Texas and Mexico to the Equator. 
