SNAKES. 



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Half-grown. North America. Presented by Dr. Jacob Green. 

 q. Young : bad state. North America. Presented by Dr. 



Jacob Green. 

 Young : bad state. North America. Presented by Edward 



Doubleday, Esq. 

 Adult. North America. From the Haslar Collection. 

 t. Half-grown: not good state. N.America. Old Collection. 

 u. Half-grown : very bad state. Mexico. 



s. 



16. Tropidonotus ordinatus. 



Green-spotted Snake, Catesby, Nat. Hist, of Carol, ii. pi. 53. 

 Tropidonotus bipunctatus, Schleg. Ess. ii. p. 320 ; Bum. fy Bibr. 

 vii. p. 582. 



Bod}- and tail moderately stout ; scales in nineteen or twenty- 

 one rows ; anal entire ; upper labials eight, anterior ocular one, 

 posterior three. Above on a darker ground three light longitu- 

 dinal lines, intervals uniform or black spotted ; beneath without 

 spots. 



Var. A. Coluber ordinatus, Linn. Syst. Nat. p. 379 ; Merr. 

 Tent. p. 93 ; Harl. Med. and Phys. Res. p. 1 13, and Journ. Acad. 

 Nat. Sc. Philad. v. p. 349; Storer, Reports, p. 223. L'Ibibe, Dau- 

 bent. Encycl. Meth. ; Lacep. Quadr. Ovip. Serp. ii. p. 311 ; Daud. 

 Rept. vii. p. 181. Coluber eques, Reuss, Mus. Senckenb. t. 8. f. 2. 

 Tropidonotus ordinatus, Boie, Isis, 1827, p. 535; Holbr. N. Amer. 

 Herpet. iv. pi. 12. Tropidonotus taenia, Dekay, New York Faun. 

 Rept. pi. 1 3. f. 27. Eutainia leptocephala, E. ordinata, E. ordi- 

 noides, E. vagrans, and E. marciana, .Bflird 8f Girard, Catal. p. 12. 

 Eutainia marciana, Marcy, Explor. of the Red River, pi. 3. 



Ground colour olive, greenish or brown ; stripes not very con- 

 spicuous ; intervals black spotted. 



Subvar. 1. Two yellow spots on the occipital shields. 



a. Adult. North America. 



b. Adult. North America. 



c. Adult. North America. 



d. Adult : injured. North America 



Doubleday, Esq. 



e. Adult. North America 



Esq. 

 /. Adult. North America. 

 g. Adult. North America. 



h. Half-grown. Texas. From Mr. Cuming's Collection. 

 i, k. Half-grown. North America. 

 I. Young. North America. From Mr. Cuming's Collection 



B 



Presented by Edward 

 Presented by Edward Doubleday, 



