. 
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88. CORONELLA. 20 
D. Black, with yellow rings, the red colour appearing on 
each side as rounded spots. 
a, Yg. (Sc. 21; V. 218; Tehuantepec. 
C. 47). 
E. Red above, each scale tipped with black, the rings reduced 
to mere traces here and there. 
(SG. aere We ales Yucatan. 
Tor 
55). 
wi 
C. 
F. Almost uniform black, with very indistinct traces 
of the light annul. 
G6 (Se 2L3V. a ;C.51). Irazu, Costa FF. D. Godman, Esq. 
Rica, (pes): 
14. Coronella doliata. 
Coluber doliatus, Zinn. S. N.i. p. 879 (1766); Harl. Journ. Ae. 
Philad. vy. 1827, p. 862, and Phys. Med. Res. p. 125 (1835). 
doliatus, part., Daud. Rept. vii. p. 74 (1805). 
dumfrisiensis, Sowerby, Brit. Mise. p. 5, pl. iii. (1804). 
Coronella coccinea, Schleg. Phys. Serp. ii. p. 57 (1837); Jan, Arch. 
Zool, Anat. Phys. ii. 1863, p. 239, and Icon. Gén. 17, pl. i. fig. 1 
(1866) ; Bocourt, Miss. Sc. Mex., Rept. p. 608, pl. xxxix. fig. 1 
1886). 
: doliata, Holbr. N. Am. Herp. iii. p. 105, pl. xxiv. (1842). 
Calamaria elapsoidea, Holbr, l. ¢. p. 119, pe XXVill. 
Osceola elapsoidea, Baird § Gir. Cat. N. Am. Rept. p. 133 (1853), 
and Rep. U.S. Surv. R. R. x. pt. ii. pl. xxxill, fig. 97 (1859); 
Cope, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xiv. 1892, p. 606. 
Lampropeltis coccinea, Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1860, ue 257. 
Ophibolus doliatus, Garm. N. Am. ane p- 64, pl. v. fig. 2 
H, Garm. Bull. Iilin. Lab, iii. 1892, p. 298. 
elapsoideus, H. Garm. 1. ¢. 
(1883) ; 
Snout much depressed, slightly prominent; rostal once and a 
half as broad as deep, the portion visible from above measuring 
about half its distance from the frontal; suture between the inter- 
nasals shorter than that between the prefrontals ; frontal a little 
longer than broad, as long as its distance from the end of the snout, 
a little shorter than the parietals ; loreal usually absent ; one pra- 
and two postoculars; temporals 1+2,; seven upper labials, third 
and fourth entering the eye; four lower labials in contact with the 
anterior chin-shields, which are longer than the posterior. Scales 
in 17 or 19 rows. Ventrals 161-180; anal entire: subcaudals 
31-54. Head and body scarlet, with pairs of black rings enclosing 
each a white one; the first white ring on the nape; these rings 
may be interrupted on the ventral surface. 
Total length 230 millim.; tail 35. 
South-eastern United States. 
a. 9 (e.17; V.161; C. 42). N. America. E. Doubleday, Esq. [P.}. 
