SNAKES. 73 



0. Half-grown. North America. Presented by Dr. Jacob Green. 

 p, q. Young : bad state. North America. Presented by Dr. 



Jacob Green, 

 r. Young : bad state. North America. Presented by Edward 



Doubleda}^ Esq. 

 s. Adult. North America. From the Haslar Collection. 

 t. Half-grown : not good state. N. America. Old Collection. 

 u. Half-grown : very bad state. Mexico. 



16. Tropidonotus ordinatus. 



Green-spotted Snake, Cateshy, Nat. Hist, of Carol, ii. pi. 53. 

 Tropidonotus bipunctatus, Schleg. Ess. ii. p. 320; Dum. Sf Bibr. 

 vii. p. 582. 



Body and tail moderately stout ; scales in nineteen or twenty- 

 one rows ; anal entire ; upper labials eight, anterior ocular one, 

 posterior three. Above on a darker ground three light longitu- 

 dinal lines, intervals uniform or black spotted ; beneath without 

 spots. 



Var. A. Coluber ordinatus, Linn. Syst. Nat. p. 3/9 ; Merr. 

 Tent. p. 93 ; Harl. Med. and Phys. Res. p. 113, and Journ. Acad. 

 Nat. Sc.Philad.v.ip.349; Storer, Reports, ip. 223. L'Ibibe, Daw- 

 bent. Encycl. Metk. ; Lacep. Quadr. Ovip. Serp. ii. p. 311 j Daud. 

 Rept. vii. p. 181. Coluber eques, Reuss, Mus. Senckenb. t. 8. f. 2. 

 Tropidonotus ordinatus, Boie, Isis, 1827, p. 535; Holbr. N. Amer. 

 Herpet.iv. pi. 12. Tropidonotus taenia, Z)eA:«y, New York Faun. 

 Rept. pi. 13. f. 27. Eutainia leptocephala, E. ordinata, E. ordi- 

 noides, E. vagrans, and E. marciana,jB «irc? Sf Girard, Catal. p. 12. 

 Eutainia marciana, Marcy, Explor. of the Red River, pi. 3. 



Ground colour olive, greenish or brown ; stripes not very con- 

 spicuous ; intervals black spotted. 



Subvar. 1. Two yellow spots on the occipital shields. 



a. Adult. North America. 



b. Adult. North America. 



c. Adult. North America. 



d. Adult : injured. North America. Presented by Edward 



Doubleday, Esq. 



e. Adult. North America. Presented by Edward Doubledav, 



Esq. 

 /. Adult. North America. 

 g. Adult. North America. 



h. Half-grown. Texas. From Mr. Cuming's Collection. 

 i, k. Half-grown. North America. 



1. Young. North America. From Mr. Cuming's Collection. 



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