SNAKES. 75 



|. Very large specimen : head injured. North America. Old 



Collection, 

 o. Young. North America. 



Subvar, 3. Space between bands uniform, olive, brown or black. 



Eutainia radix and E. elegans, Baird Sf Girard, Catal. p. 3-4. 



TT. Adult. North America. 



p-T. Adult and young. Lake Winipeg. Presented by Sir John 



Richardson. 

 V, (j). Adult and half-grown. North America. 

 X' Some specimens in a bad state. North America. 

 0). Half-grown : not good state. North America. From Mr. 



Mather's Collection. 

 aa. Half-grown : bad state. North America. 



Subvar. 4. Each scale in the space between the bands with a 

 yellow streak. 

 bb. Adult. Sine patria. 



Var. C. Coluber infernalis, Blainv. N. Ann. Mus. d'Hist. Nat. 

 iii. pi. 26. f. 3. Eutainia infernalis, E. pickeringii, and E. parietalis, 

 BairdSf' Girard, Catal. p. 26 et seq. Tropidonotus(Col.) parietalis. 

 Say, in Long's Exped. to Rocky Mount, i. p. 186 ; Sitgreave's 

 Report of an Exped. pi. 17- 



Above black, with a very distinct yellow streak ; lateral streaks 

 indistinct, confluent with a series of red (in spirits white) spots. 

 cc. Adult. California. From Mr. Stevens's Collection. 

 dd, ee. Adult and half-grown : injured. Cahfornia. From the 



Haslar Collection. 

 Jf. Adult : injured. California. From the Haslar Collection. 

 gg. Adult : female. California. From the Haslar Collection. 

 hk, ii. Adult and half-grown. Monterey. Presented by J. H. 



Gurney, Esq. 

 Ick. Young. Monterey. 

 U. Four adult specimens. N. America. 

 mm. Adult. N. America. From the Haslar Collection. 

 nn. Adult : bad state. N. America. Presented by the College 



of Surgeons. 

 00. Young. N. America. From the Haslar Collection. 



Var. D. Tropidonotus concinnus. Hallow. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc. 

 Philad. 1852, p. 182. Eutainia concinna, Baird Sf Girard, Catal. 

 p. 146. 



Above black with a yellow dorsal streak ; lateral streaks re- 

 placed by a series of whitish blotches ; belly slate-blue. 



pp. Adult. Columbia River. Presented by Mr. Loftus. 



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