2 University of Michigan 



Type Specimen : U. S. National Museum No. 22368, 

 female ; Orange Hammock, De Soto County ( northeast por- 

 tion). Florida. William Palmer, collector. 



Description of Type Specimen : \'entrals, 217, plus one en- 

 tire anal; subcaudals, 47; dorsal scale rows anteriorly 23, 

 changing, between the i8oth and the 192nd ventral ])lates, to 

 21 rows (there are actually 24 rows for a very brief space, as 

 from the region of the lOist to 107th ventral an additional 

 row is interpolated between the 5th and 6thj ; upi)er labials 

 7 on each side; lower labials lo on each side, the last two on 

 the left side very small and imderlying the last U])per labial, 

 and the lOth on the right minute and interpolated partly above 

 the 9th ; preoculars, one on each side ; postoculars, two on each 

 side (the inferior the smaller) ; temporals 2-\-t,-\-j^ on each 

 side; loreal about twice as high as long and about half as high 

 as the ])reocular; nasals two, the posterior slightly the larger, 

 nostril large and between them ; other cephalic shields like those 

 of L. gctiiliis ; posterior chin shields about equal in length to 

 anterior, parallel and adjacent ; four gular scales between pos- 

 terior chin shields and first ventral. 



Total length, 1 138 mm. ; tail length, 134 mm. ; tail divided by 

 total length, .118. 



General color in alcohol, brown. About 59 transverse 

 brownish white dorsal bands on body and tail, these extending 

 down on the sides to the level of about the seventh or eighth 

 row of scales. On each side, alternating with these bands, is 

 a similar series of transverse light bands extending upward 

 from about the second or third row of scales to about the sev- 

 enth or eighth row. Alternating with this series is a row of 

 slightly elongate light spots overlapping the ventral plates and 

 extending upward to about the second row of scales. This 

 latter row of spots is one and one-half scales wide, while the 



