10. TROPIDOXOTUS. 2]'-i 



C'cti. 20. pi. ii. lig. 1 (lts()i^) ; Garm. N. Am. liepf. p. 2:5, pi. iii. 



%. 2(188:5). 

 Tropidonotiis proximus, Boic, I. c. ; Ilalloto. in Sitgreaves Krped. Zuni 



^- Color. R. p. 134, pi. xviii. (l8o;}). 

 Leptoplus sauritiis, llolhr. N. Am. Ilerj). iv. p. 21, pi. iv. (1842); 



l)ek(ni, N. Y. Faun., Jirpf. p. 47, pi. xi. tip^. 1 (1842). 

 Eutainia saurita, Baird ^- Gir. Cat. N. Am. licjA. p. 24 (185.3) : 



Cope, Wheeler's Rep. Krjilor. iSitrv. W. lOO/h Mer. v. p. .'>4o 



(1875) ; II. Garm. Bull. llUn. Lah. iii. 1892.. p. 264. 



fairt'vi, Baud k<^- Gir. I. r. p. 2-> ; Cooper, Rep. U.S. Explor. 



Surv. R. R. xii. pt. ii. p. 2U9, pit*, xiii, & xvi. (18G0) ; CVe, /. c, 

 ami Bull. U.S. Nat. Mas. no. 17, p. 2:5 (1880). 



])i()xiiua, L'aird ^- Gir. I. c, and in Marci/'s Explor. Red Riv. 



p. 220, pi. ii. (185:3) ; Wied, N. Acta Ac. Leap. Carol, xxxii. i. 18( 5, 

 p. 90 ; Cope, Wheeler's Rep. v. j). 545, and Bull. U.S. Nut. Mvs. 

 no. 17, p. 23, and Proc. U.S. Nat. Mas. xiv. l.-;92, p. 050. 



sackenii, Ken?iicott, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1859, p. 98; C(>2)e, 



Wheeler's Rep. v. p. 545, and Proc. U.S. Nat. Mm. xi. 1889, p. 393. 



Euta'iiia ruliloris, Cope, Proc. Am. Philos. Soc. xxii. 1885, p. 388. 

 Tliauuiophis proxinia, Garm. Bull. Essex- Inst. xxiv. 1892, p. 105. 



Form slender. Eye rather large, llostral broader thau deep, 

 visible from above ; intcrnasals as long as broad, as long as or a 

 little shorter than the pi\elrontals ; frontal once and a half to once 

 and two thirds as long as broad, as long as its distance from tlie end 

 of the snout, as long as or a little shorter than the parietals ; loreal 

 abont as long as deep ; one pra3- and three (rarely four) postoculars ; 

 temporals 1 + 2 or 1 + 3; eight (rarely seviMi) upper labials, fuurtli 

 and fifth (or third and fourth) entering the eye; five lower labials 

 in contact with the anterior chin-shields, which are shorter than 

 the posterior. Scales in 19 rows, all strongly keeled. Yentrals 

 144-178; anal entire; subcaudals 80-127. Dark olive or dark 

 brown above, with three more or less distinct yellow, pale green, or 

 orange stripes, the laterals on the third and fourth series of scales ; 

 usually a pair of light dots close together on the suture between the 

 parietal shields ; upper lip and lower parts greenish white. 



Total length 730 millim. : tail 230. 



!N.orth America east of the llocky Mountains ; Mexico. 



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