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confinus, a form of which the type seems to have been lost, ac- 
cording to Cope, and which is also without definite locality. It is 
colored brownish-white generally, in alcohol, with about 44 deep 
brown saddle-like blotches down the back. Along the sides a 
series of similar-colored small blotches alternate, and each usually 
opposite a dorsal saddle. A second series of brownish blotches 
along each outer portions of gastrosteges, extending over 2 to 
4 scales alternately, and more or less with a narrow median unin- 
terrupted pale area entire length of body. At first these gastro- 
stegeal spots pale and not very pronounced, but gradually become 
deeper. ‘Top of head pale brownish-white with an antero-orbital 
connecting dark brown band. A narrow dark brown band from 
lower margin of eye to rictus. Head otherwise pale brownish- 
white, save a few inconspicuous pale brown specks on parietal 
and frontal plates. Scales on back all more or less entirely 
smooth. 
In Monthly Bulletin of the Pa. State Dept. Agric., IV, 1906, 
on Pl. 25, Prof. H. A. Surface gives a photograph of this inter- 
esting stage. ; 
Calopeltis obsoletus Ditmars, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. Y., 1895-96, 
No. 6, p. 16.—Stone, Am. Nat., XL, 1906, p. 166. 
Calopeltis obsoletus confinis Stone, |. c. 
Genus Storeria Baird and Girard. 
The Brown Snakes. 
Key to the species. 
a. Preoculars 2; postoculars 2; upper labials 5 or 6; no black spot below 
eye; belly usually red. * OCCIPITO-MACULATA 
aa. Preocular single; postoculars 2; upper labials 7; a dark spot below eye; 
belly always whitish. DEKAYI 
