13. COLUBRID.^ 



166. Lampropeltis pyromelana (Cope) 



Arizona Kino Snake 



Plate 79 



Ophibolus pyromelanus Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., i866, p. 305 



(type locality, Arizona). 

 Ophibolus pyrrhomelas Cope, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. I, 1875, p. 37 



(part); Yarrow, Surv. W. looth Merid., Vol. V, 1875, p. 537, 



pi. XIX; Yarrow, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 24, 1883, p. 91; 



Cope, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Vol. XIV, 189a, 610 (part); Cope, 



Report U. S. Nat. Mus. for 1898, 1900, p. 907, fig. 224. 

 Ophibolus pyromelas Coues, Surv. W. 100th Merid., Vol. V, 1875, p. 



619. 

 Ophibolus getulus var. pyromelanus Garman, Mem. Mus. Compr. Zool., 



Cambr., Vol. VIII, No. 3, 1883, p. 67. 

 Ophibolus getulus var. pyrrhomelas Garman, Mem. Mus. Compr. Zoo!., 



Cambr., Vol. VIII, No. 3, 1883, p. 157. 

 Lamfrofeltis fyrrhomelas Cockerell, Amer. Nat., Vol. XXX, 1896, 



p. 326; Van Denburch, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., Ser. 2, Vol. VI, 



1896, p. 347. 

 Ophibolus zonatus Brown, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1901, p. 79 



(part); Ditmars, Reptile Book, 1907, pis. CIII, fig. 6, CVII, fig. 



i; Tucker, Danger. Poison. Snakes U. S., 1912, p. i, pi. I, fig. I. 

 Lampropeltis pyrrhomelcena Stejneger, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Vol. 



XXV, 1902, p. 152; Stone, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 191 1, 



p. 231; Van Denburch & Slevin, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., Ser. 4, 



Vol. 3, 1913, p. 415; Blanchard, Occas. Papers Mus. Zool. Univ. 



Michigan, No. 87, 1920, pp. 7, -; Blanchard, Bull. U. S. Nat. 



Mus., No. 114, 1921, p. 231, fig. 71. 

 Lampropeltis pyromelana pyromelana Stejneger & Barbour, Check 



List N. Amer. Amph. Rept., 1917, p. 88. 



Description. — Top of head slightly flattened posteriorly, 

 curving downward to broad, rounded snout. Rostral plate 

 large, broader than high, hollowed below, and bounded be- 

 hind by intemasal, anterior nasal, and first labial plates. 

 Plates on top of head are a pair of internasals, a pair of pr^ 

 frontals, a short, broad, irregularly wedge-shaped frontal 

 between two supraoculars, and a pair of large parietals. 

 Anterior and posterior nasals distinct. A small loreal usually 



