CORONELLA GETULA.—Linneus. 
Plate XX. 
Cuaracters. Head small; snout rather truncated; colour above beautiful 
shining raven-black, with about twenty-two white, narrow, transverse bars, bifur- 
cating on the flanks to form a nearly continuous waving white line; tail barred, 
but without lateral lines; abdomen raven-black, with a shadowy tinge of white in 
certain lights. Pl. 215. Sc. 49. 
Synonymes. Chain Snake, Catesby, Carolina, &c., vol. ii. p. 52, pl. li. 
Coluber getulus, Linnwus, Syst. Nat., tom. i. p. 382. 
La chaine, Lacépede, Hist. des Serp., tom. i. p. 300. 
Coluber getulus, Gme/in, Syst. Nat. Lin., tom. i. part iii. p. 1106. 
Coluber getulus, Latreille, Hist. Nat. Rept., tom. iv. p. 174. 
Coluber getulus, Dauwdin, Hist. Nat. des Rept., tom. vi. p. 314, pl. Ixxvii. 
Coluber getulus, Shaw, Gen. Zool., vol. il. part 11. p. 467. 
Natrix getulus, Merrem, Versuch eines Syst. der Amphib., p. 196. 
Pseudo-elaps getulus, Fitzinger, Neue Class der Rept., p. 56. 
Coluber getulus, Harlan, Med. and Phys. Res., p. 122. 
Chain Snake, Thunder Snake, King Snake, Vudgo. 
Description. The head is small, short, and rather rounded at the snout; the 
vertebral plate is regularly pentagonal, broad in front and pointed behind; the 
superior orbital is oblong-quadrilateral, narrow before, broader behind, and but 
slightly projecting externally over the eye. ‘The occipital plates are large and 
pentagonal; the frontal are irregularly hexagonal, with their narrowest border 
downward and outwards; the anterior frontal are regularly quadrilateral, a little 
broader without and narrower within. The rostral plate is broad, short, trun- 
