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in King County. It has been noted from western Ore- 

 gon and from California. The last locality needs con- 

 firmation, although this snake may, perhaps, occur in 

 the northwestern corner of our State. 



68. Thamnophis elegans (Baird & Girard). ELEGANT 

 GARTER SNAKE. 



Eutainia ordinoides, B. & G., Cat. N. A. Kept., Pt. I, 1853, p. 33; 



GIRARD, U. S. Explor. Exped., Herp., 1858, p. 153, pi. XIV, 



figs. 1-4. 

 Eutainia elegans, B. & G., Cat. N. A. Kept., Pt. I, Serp., 1853, p. 34 



(type locality El Dorado County, Calif.). 

 Tropidonotus trivittatus, HALLOW., Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., VI, 



1853, p. 237 (Cosumnes River, Cal.). 

 Eutcenia elegans ordinoides, COPE, Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Mus., XIV, 1891, 



p. 654. 

 Eutcenia elegans brunnea, COPE, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XIV, 1891, 



p. 654 (type locality Fort Bidwell, Cal.). 

 Eutcenia elegans lineolata, COPE, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XIV, 1891, 



p. 655 (part), (no type). 

 Eutcenia infernalis infernalis, COPE, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XIV., 



1891, p. 657. 

 Eutcenia infernalis vidua, COPE, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XIV, 1891, 



p. 658 (type locality San Francisco, Cal.). 

 Tropidonotus ordinatus var. infernalis, BOUL., Cat. Snakes Brit. 



Mus., I, 1893, p. 207 (part). 

 Thamnophis infernalis, STEJN., N. A. Fauna, No. 7, 1893, p. 210. 



Description. Head distinct from neck, flat-topped, 

 with rather narrow, rounded snout, and temporal regions 

 sometimes swollen. Rostral large, bounded behind by 

 internasal, anterior nasal, and first labial plates. Plates 

 on top of head, a pair of internasals, a pair of prefron- 

 tals, supraocular of each side, a frontal, and a pair of 

 parietals. Anterior and posterior nasals distinct. One 

 loreal. One or rarely two preoculars and from two to 

 four postoculars. Temporals normally one followed by 

 two, sometimes 1-1 or 1-3. Eight, or very rarely seven, 

 nine, or ten, superior and ten or eleven inferior labials, 



