746 13. COLUBRIDE 
166. Lampropeltis pyromelana (Cope) 
ARIzoNA KinG SNAKE 
Plate 79 
Ophibolus pyromelanus Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1866, p. 305 
(type locality, Arizona). 
Ophibolus pyrrhomelas Corr, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 1, 1875, p. 37 
(part); Yarrow, Surv. W. sooth Merid., Vol. V, 1875, p. 5375 
pl. XIX; Yarrow, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 24, 1883, p. 913 
Coreg, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Vol. XIV, 1892, 610 (part); Cope, 
Report U. S. Nat. Mus. for 1898, 1900, p. 907, fig. 224. 
Ophibolus pyromelas Cours, Surv. W. 1ooth Merid., Vol. V, 1875, p. 
619. 
Ophibolus getulus var. pyromelanus Garman, Mem. Mus. Compr. Zool., 
Cambr., Vol. VIII, No. 3, 1883, p. 67. 
Ophibolus getulus var. pyrrhomelas GarMAN, Mem. Mus. Compr. Zool., 
Cambr., Vol. VIII, No. 3, 1883, p. 157. 
Lampropeltis pyrrhomelas CocKERELL, Amer, Nat., Vol. XXX, 1896, 
p. 326; Van Densurcu, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., Ser. 2, Vol. VI, 
1896, p. 347. 
Ophibolus zonatus Brown, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1901, p. 79 
(part); Dirmars, Reptile Book, 1907, pls. CIII, fig. 6, CVII, fig. 
1; Tucker, Danger. Poison. Snakes U. S., 1912, p. 1, pl. I, fig. 1. 
Lampropeltis pyrrhomelena STEJNEGER, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Vol. 
XXV, 1902, p. 152; Stone, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1911, 
p- 231; Van DensurcH & Srevin, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., Ser. 4, 
Vol. 3, 1913, p. 415; BrancHarp, Occas. Papers Mus. Zool. Univ. 
Michigan, No. 87, 1920, pp. 7, -; BLancHarp, Bull. U. S. Nat. 
Mus., No. 114, 1921, p. 231, fig. 71. 
Lampropeltis pyromelena pyromelena STEJNEGER & Barsour, Check 
List N. Amer. Amph. Rept., 1917, p. 88. 
Description.—Top of head slightly flattened posteriorly, 
curving downward to broad, rounded snout. Rostral plate 
large, broader than high, hollowed below, and bounded be- 
hind by internasal, anterior nasal, and first labial plates. 
Plates on top of head are a pair of internasals, a pair of pre- 
frontals, a short, broad, irregularly wedge-shaped frontal 
between two supraoculars, and a pair of large parietals. 
Anterior and posterior nasals distinct. A small loreal usually 
