746 13. COLUBR1DJE 



166. Lampropeltis pyromelana (Cope) 



ARIZONA KING SNAKE 



Plate 79 



Ophibolus pyromelanus COPE, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1866, p. 305 



(type locality, Arizoda). 

 Ophibolus pyrrhomelas COPE, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. i, 1875, p. 37 



(part); YARROW, Surv. W. icoth 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, 1892, 610 (part); COPE, 



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

 Ophibolus pyromelas COUES, Surv. W. looth Merid., Vol. V, 1875, p. 



619. 

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



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

 Ophibolus getulus var. pyrrhomelas GARMAN, Mem. Mus. Compr. Zool., 



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

 Lampropeltis pyrrAomelas COCKERELL, Amer. Nat., Vol. XXX, 1896, 



p. 326; VAN DENBURGH, 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 pyrrhomelana STEJNEGER, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Vol. 



XXV, 1902, p. 152; STONE, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1911, 



p. 231; VAN DENBURGH & 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 internasal, 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 



