638 12. BOIDZ 
Genus 25. Charina 
Charina Gray, Cat. Snakes Brit. Mus., 1849, p. 113 (type, dotte). 
Wenona Bairp & Girarp, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1852, p. 176. 
Pseudoeryx Jan, Arch. f. Nat., 1862, p. 242 (type, dotte). 
The head is not, or is very slightly, distinct from the 
neck, and is provided with irregular large plates above. 
The nostril is between two plates. The scales on the body 
are smooth, small, imbricate, and about as long as wide. 
The urosteges and preanal plate are undivided. The tail 
is short, very blunt, ending in a large, rounded plate. The 
eye is small, with vertical pupil. 
SYNOPSIS OF SUBSPECIES 
a.—Scales usually in more than 41 rows. 
C. b. botta.—p. 638. 
a.—Scales in 41 rows. 
C. b. utahensis.—p. 642. 
139. Charina bottz bottz (Blainville) 
Paciric RuBBerR SNAKE 
Plate 59 
Tortrix botte BuainvitLe, Nouv. Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat., Vol. IV, 1835, 
p- 289, pl. XXVI, fig. 1-1b (type locality, California). 
Charina botte Gray, Cat. Spec. Snakes Brit. Mus., 1849, p. 113; Cope, 
Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. I, 1875, p. 43; Bocourr, Miss. Sci. au 
Mex., 8e livr., 1882, p. 511; Garman, Mem. Mus. Compr. Zool. 
Cambr., Vol. VIII, No. 3, 1883, p. 7; Cope, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., 
No. 32, 1887, p. 64; STEJNEGER, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Vol. XIII, 
1890, p. 181; Cope, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., Vol. XIV, 1892, p. 592; 
Van Denspurcu, Occas. Papers Cal. Acad. Sci., V, 1897, p. 1543 
McLarn, Critical Notes, 1899, p. 11; Cope, Report U. S. Nat. 
Mus., for 1898, 1900, p. 728, figs. 148, 149, 150; Brown, Proc. 
Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1901, p. 15; Dirmars, Reptile Book, 1907, 
p- 211, pl. LXIV; RicHarpson, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Vol. 48, 
1915, p. 426; Dice, Univ. Cal. Publs. Zool., Vol. 16, No. 17, 1916, 
Pp. 314, 319; GrinneLt & Camp, Univ. Cal. Publ. Zool., Vol. 17, 
