107. aBasTor. 289 
pupil; no preocular; loreal and prefrontal entering the eye. Body 
cylindrical ; scales smooth or feebly keeled, in 15 or 17 rows, without 
apical pits; ventrals rounded. ‘ail short ; subcaudals in two rows. 
North America. 
1. Virginia valeria. 
Virginia valerie, Baird § Gir. Cat. N. Am. Rept. p. 127 (1853) ; 
Jan, Arch. Zool. Anat. Phys. ii, 1862, p. 24, and Icon. Gén. 12, 
pl. ii. fig. 5 (1865) ; Garm. N. Am. ae p- 98, pl. vii. fig. 8 
(1883) ; “H. Garm. Bull. Illin. Lab. iii. 1892 2, Dp. 307, 
Carphophis harpertii, Dum. § Bibr. vii. p. 185 (1854). 
Virginia harperti, Cope, Check-list N. Am. Rept. p. 85 (1875); 
Garm. 1. ¢. p- 99. 
harpertii, part., Bocourt, Miss. Sc. Mex., Rept. p. 548, pl. xxxii. 
fig. 3 (1883). 
Rostral nearly as deep as broad, visible from above; internasals 
much shorter than the prefrontals; frontal longer than broad, 
shorter than the parietals ; loreal once and a half to twice and a half 
as long as deep; two or three postoculars; temporals 1+23; six 
upper labials, third and fourth entering the eye ; four lower labials 
in contact with the anterior chin-shields, which are as long as or 
shorter than the posterior. Scales in 15 rows, smooth or feebly 
keeled. Ventrals 111-128; anal divided; subcaudals 24-37. 
Yellowish or greyish brown above, uniform or with minute black dots 
which may form two or four longitudinal series ; dull yellow beneath. 
Total Jength 220 millim.; tail 40. 
United States, from Maryland and Illinois to Georgia and Texas. 
a-c. § (V. 112, 118;C.34, Raleigh, N. Carolina. Messrs. Brimley [C.]. 
36) & 9 (V. 115; C. 24). 
2. Virginia elegans. 
Virginia elegans, Kennicott, Proce. Ac. Philad. 1859, p. 99; Jan, Arch. 
Zool. Anat. Phys. ii. 1862, p. 24, and Icon. Gén. 12, pl. ii. fig. 6 
(1865) ; Cope, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xiv. 1892, p. 599. 
harpertii, part., Bocourt, Miss. Sc. Mex., Rept. p. 543, pl. xxxil. 
fig. 4 (1883). 
Differs from the preceding in the narrower scales (which may 
be feebly keeled) in 17 rows. Ventrals 185; subcaudals 31. Uni- 
form light olivaceous brown above, dull yellowish white beneath. 
Southern Illinois, Arkansas, Texas. 
107. ABASTOR. 
Pseudoeryx, part., Fitzing. N. Class. Rept. p. 29 (1826). 
Helicops, part., Wagler, Syst. Amph. p. 170 (1830), 
Homalopsis, part., Sehleg. Phys. Serp. ii. p. 297 (1887). 
Abastor, Gray, Cat. Sn. p- 78 (1849); Baird § Gir. Cat. N. Am. 
Rept. p. 125 (1853); Cope, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xiv.1892 ,p- 603. 
Calopisma, part., Dum. § Bibr. Erp. Gén. vii. p. 886 (1854) ; Jan, 
Arch. Zool, Anat. Phys. iii. 1865, p. 241. 
Maxillary teeth subequal, 15 to 17; mandibular i subequal. 
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