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Length 25 to 30 inches. Color yellowish gray or reddish 
brown above, sometimes with about twenty-eight dark blotches 
on body, fifteen black half rings on tail. One or two series of 
lateral spots. Beneath greenish yellow, with indistinct green- 
ish brown blotches. A dark band across forehead extending to 
angle of mouth. Body short and stout, tail long. Upper sur- 
face of rostral plate compressed into a sharp ridge. 
Dry, sandy districts. R. W. P. Coll., four specimens, 
19. (4). Liopeltis vernalis, DeKay. 
Grass snake; Green snake. 
Coluber vernalis, DeKay, Harlan, Storer, Holbrook, Thompson. 
Chlorosoma vernalis, Baird and Girard. 
Herpetodryas vernalis, Hallowell. 
Cyclophis vernalis, Gunther. 
Contia vernalis, Boulenger. 
Liopeltis vernalis, Cope. 
Length 20 inches. Color above uniform, bright green, be- 
neath yellowish white. Tail one-third or one-fourth total 
length; scales in fifteen rows. 
Fields and meadows. Very abundant. 
R. W. P. Coll., ten specimens and eggs. 
20. (5). Cyclophis aestivus, Linnaeus. 
Keeled green snake. 
Coluber aestivus, Linnaeus, Gmelin, Harlan. 
Leptophis aestivus, Bell, Holbrook, Baird and Girard. 
Herpetodryas aestivus, Fitzinger, Cope. 
Auguis viridis, Catesby. 
Cyclophis aestivus, Gunther, Cope. 
Length 25 inches. Color above green, labial region and 
under parts light yellow. Tail more than one-third of total 
length. Scales in seventeen rows, and strongly carinated ex- 
cept the outer row. 
Arboreal. Recorded from Conn. 
21. (6). Coluber vuipimus, Baird and Girard. 
lox snake. 
Scotophis vulpinus, Baird and Girard. 
Elaphis rubriceps, Dumeril and Bibron. 
Coluber vlupinus, Cope, Boulenger. 
Length 60 inches. General color above light brown. A 
vertebral and two lateral series of chocolate colored blotches 
extending from head to tail. The vertebral series are large, 
uadrate; the lateral series, smaller and rounded. Abdomen 
yellowish white with black, quadrate blotches. 
Recorded from vicinity of Prov., R. I. 
