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below. Postoculars 2, subangular, and lower smaller. Upper 
labials 7, with sixth largest. Lower labials 8, with fifth largest. 
Postgenials longest. "Temporal elongate, and followed by a series 
of 2 scales with lower largest. Scales all well keeled over back, 
and keels becoming less elevated down sides, those in about first 2 
series immediately above gastrosteges smooth. About 15 series 
of scales transversely over back, and 295 counted from parietal 
plates to tip of tail. Gastrosteges 152 to vent. Urosteges double. 
Tail about 124 in body, and very slender and whip-like towards 
tip. Color in alcohol olive-bluish or slaty on back, and median 
dorsal region darker than sides, which are more or less entirely 
with bluish tints. Under surface of body creamy-white. This” 
color also extending anteriorly over lower surface of head entirely 
to inclusion of upper labials, and to tip of tail, though there more 
or less grayish tinted. Iris dull grayish. Length 27 inches. 
Braddock’s Mills in Burlington County. July 26th, 1902. Wit- 
mer Stone. 
Most frequently met with in the southern part of the state, 
though in my experience rather scarce. It is usually confused 
with Liopeltis and generally regarded as poisonous though of 
course quite harmless. Its food consists largely of insects. ‘The 
green snake, evidently this species, is reported from Dennisville 
in Cape May County, where however it is said to be rare. Mr. 
McCadden found it at Cape May Court House. 
Coluber estivus Harlan, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., V., pt. 
2, 1827, p. 357.—Harlan, Med. Phys. Res., 1835, p. 121.—Hol- 
brooks Nin Ane clecp, ID 1838, p. 119, ceIh 27. 
Leptophis @stivus Holbrook, |. c., Ed. 2, IV, 1842, p. 17, 
Pl..27. 
Opheodrys estivus Cope, Proc. Acad, Nat. Sci. Phila., 1860, 
p. 560.—Abbott, Geol. N. J., 1868, p. 802.—Ditmars, Proc. Linn. 
Soc. N. Y., 1895-96, No. 8, p. 14. 
Cyclophis estivus Abbott, Nat. Rambles, 1885, p. 476.—Cope, 
Rep. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1898 (1900), p. 784.—Stone, Am. Nat., 
XL, 1906, p. 166. 
