SNAKES. 119 



2. Cyclophis, Giinther. 



Habit slender ; belly rounded ; head ovoid, distinct from neck ; 

 shields of crown regular; one anterior, two posterior oculars; 

 one loreal (in one species wanting) ; one nasal, pierced by the 

 nostril. Scales sub elliptical, rather large, smooth, in fifteen 

 rows (in one species keeled, in seventeen). Eye rather large, 

 pupil round. All the teeth equal, smooth. East Indies; North 

 America. 



Chlorosoma, Baird § Girard, Catal. p. 108. Leptophis, 

 Holbr. N. Amer. Herpet. iii. p. 1 7 ; Baird & Girard, Catal. p. 106. 

 Herpetodryas, sp., Schleg. Ess. ii. p. 187. Coluber, sp., auct. 

 prior. 



1. Cyclophis ^estivus. 



Catesby, Hist. Carol, ii. t. 57. Coluber sestivus, Linn. Syst. 

 Nat. i. p. 387 ; Shaw, Zool. iii. p. 551 ; Harl. Journ. Ac. Nat. Sc. 

 Philad. 1827, p. 357, and Med. Phys. Res. 1835, p. 121 ; Lacep. 

 Quadr. Ovip. Serp. ii. p. 395 ; Latr. Rept. iii. p. 88 ; Baud. 

 Rept. viii. p. 101. Natrix sestiva, Merr. Tent. p. 121. Herpe- 

 todryas sestivus, Schleg. Ess. pi. J. f. 12, 13 ; Bum. fy Bibr. 

 p. 209. Leptophis aestivus, Holbr. N. Amer. Herpet. iv. t. 3. 

 Leptophis restivus and L. majalis, Baird $f Girard, Catal. p. 106, 

 and in Marcy, Explor. of the Red River, pi. 9. 



Scales keeled, in seventeen rows; seven upper labials; one 

 nasal; snout rounded, rather blunt in front. Above uniform 

 olive-green, beneath paler. (See Philodryas cestivus.) 



a. Adult. Texas. From Mr. Cuming's Collection. 



b. Adult. New Orleans. From M. Sailers Collection. 



c. Adult. California. Presented by Mrs. Drummond. 



d. Adult. Michigan. From Mr. Cuming's Collection. 



e. Adult. Delaware. Presented by Edward Doubleday, Esq. 

 /. Adult. N. America. Presented by Edward Doubleday, Esq. 

 (j-i. Adult. N. America. Presented by Edward Doubleday, Esq. 

 k, I. Adult. N. America. Presented by Edward Doubleday, Esq. 

 m. Adult : male. N. America. Presented by Edward Double- 

 day, Esq. 



n. Adult. America. From Paris. 



o. Half-grown. West Indies. From Mr. Scrivener's Collection. 



p. Adult. America. From the Haslar Collection. 



q. Adult. America. Presented by the College of Surgeons. 



2. Cyclophis vernalis. 



Coluber vernalis, (Bekay) Harl. Journ. Ac. Nat. Sc. Philad. 



