34. LAMPROPELTIS 749 
Ophibolus zonatus Brown, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1901, p. 793 
Dirmars, Reptile Book, 1907, p. 357, pl. CII, figs. 7, 10, pl. CVII, 
fig. 2; Ruruiinc, Copeia, 1915, No. 15. 
Lampropeltis pyrrhomelena multicincta STEJNEGER, Proc. U. S. Nat. 
Mus., Vol. XXV, 1892, p. 153; GrinneELL & GrinneELL, Throop 
Institute Bulletin, No. XX XV, 1907, p. 39, fig. 16; GrINNELL, 
Univ. Cal. Publ. Zool., Vol. 5, No. 1, 1908, p. 165; Arsatr, Univ. 
Cal. Publ. Zool., Vol. 12, No. 3, 1913, p. 41. 
Lampropeltis pyromelana multicincta GRINNELL & Camp, Cal. Publ. Zool., 
Vol. 17, No. 10, 1917, p. 184; Hatt & GrinneELt, Proc. Cal. Acad. 
Sci., Ser. 4, Vol. 9, No. 2, 1919, p. 60; CowLes, Journ. Entomol. 
& Zool., Pomona College, Vol. XII, No. 3, 1920, p. 66; STEPHENS, 
Trans. San Diego Soc. Nat. Hist., Vol. III, No. 4, 1921, p. 64. 
Lampropeltis pyromelena multicincta STEJNEGER & Barpour, Check List 
N. Amer. Amph. Rept., 1917, p. 89; SroreR, Copeia, No. 97, 1921, 
Pp. 44. 
Lampropeltis multicincta BLancHarD, Occas. Papers Mus. Zool Univ. 
Michigan, No. 87, 1920, pp. 5,-; BiancHarp, Bull. U. S. Nat. 
Mus., No. 114, 1921, p. 222, fig. 75. 
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, 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 
present, but sometimes united with prefrontal. Two post- 
oculars and one (or rarely two) preocular. Temporals 
normally two followed by three, sometimes 1+2, 1+3, 
2+3 or 2+4. Seven (rarely six or eight) superior and nine 
(rarely eight or 10) inferior labials, fifth and sixth superior 
and fifth (or fourth) inferior largest, third and fourth super- 
ior reaching eye, first pair of inferior meeting on median line. 
Genials in two pairs, anterior larger than posterior. Scales 
on body smooth, thin, imbricate, often in 21 usually in 23, 
