34. LAMPROPELTIS 767 
Distribution—The California Milk Snake has been 
found in San Diego (Carlsbad, Campo, Point Loma, San 
Dieguito Valley, Poway, Orcutt, Santa Ysabel, La Mesa, 
Cuyamaca, Witch Creek, Dulzura, Julian), Riverside (San 
Jacinto), San Bernardino (Waterman Canyon, San Bernar- 
dino Mountains), Los Angeles, and Fresno (Fresno, Jame- 
son, Firebaugh), counties, California, and at San Ysidra 
Ranch northern Lower California. 
173. Lampropeltis nitida Van Denburgh 
Lower CauirorNiA Mix SNAKE 
Ophibolus california Corr, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 32, 1887, p. 79. 
Lampropeltis nitida VAN DENBURGH, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., Ser. 2, Vol. V, 
1895, p. 143, pl. XIV (type locality, San Jose del Cabo, Lower 
California, Mexico); Sreynecer & Barsour, Check List N. 
Amer. Amph. Rept., 1917, p. 88; Van DensBurcu & SLEvin, Proc. 
Cal. Acad. Sci., Ser. 4, Vol. XI, 1921, pp. 52, 68; Netson, Mem. 
Nat. Acad Sci., Vol. XVI, 1921, pp. 114, 115. 
Lampropeltis california nitida BLANCHARD, Occas. Papers Mus. Zool. 
Univ. Michigan, No. 87, 1920, pp. 3, -; Brancuarp, Bull. U. S. 
Nat. Mus., No. 114, 1921, p. 103. 
Description —Head little distinct from neck, consider- 
ably depressed, with broadly rounded snout. Rostral plate 
large, hollowed below, and bounded behind by internasal, 
anterior nasal, and first labial plates. Plates on top of head 
are a pair of internasals, a pair of prefrontals, a rather short 
frontal, supraocular of each side, and a pair of large parie- 
tals. Anterior and posterior nasals distinct. A small loreal. 
One preocular. Two postoculars. Temporals normally 
two followed by three. Seven superior labials, third and 
fourth reaching eye. Nine or 10 inferior labials, fifth 
largest, first pair meeting on median line. Genials in two 
pairs, anterior very much larger than posterior. Scales 
smooth, thin, imbricate, in 23 rows. Anal plate not divided. 
Gastrosteges 227. Urosteges in two series, 56 in number. 
