34. LAMPROPELTIS 749 



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



DITMARS, Reptile Book, 1907, p. 357, pi. CIII, figs. 7, 10, pi. CVII, 



fig. 2; RUTHLING, Copeia, 1915, No. 15. 

 Lampropeltis pyrrhomelana multicincta STEJNEGER, Proc. U. S. Nat. 



Mus., Vol. XXV, 1892, p. 153; GRINNELL & GRINNELL, Throop 



Institute Bulletin, No. XXXV, 1907, p. 39, fig. 16; GRINNELL, 



Univ. Cal. Publ. Zool., Vol. 5, No. i, 1908, p. 165; ATSATT, Univ. 



Cal. Publ. Zool., Vol. 12, No. 3, 1913, p. 41. 

 Lampropcltis pyromelana multicincta GRINNELL & CAMP, Cal. Publ. Zool., 



Vol. 17, No. 10, 1917, p. 184; HALL & GRINNELL, Proc. Cal. Acad. 



Sci., Ser. 4, Vol. 9, No. 2, 1919, p. 60; COWLES, Journ. Entomol. 



& Zool., Pomona College, Vol. XII, No. 3, 1920, p. 66; STEPHENS, 



Trans. San Diego Soc. Nat. Hist., Vol. Ill, No. 4, 1921, p. 64. 

 Lampropeltis pyromelana multicincta STEJNEGER & BARBOUR, Check List 



N. Amer. Amph. Kept., 1917, p. 89; STORER, Copeia, No. 97, 1921, 



p. 44. 

 Lampropeltis multicincta BLANCHARD, Occas. Papers Mus. Zool Univ. 



Michigan, No. 87, 1920, pp. 5,-; BLANCHARD, Bull. U. S. Nat. 



Mus., No. 114, 1921, p. 222, fig. 75. 



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, a pair of internasals, a pair of pre- 

 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 

 present, but sometimes united with prefrontal. Two post- 

 oculars and one (or rarely two) preocular. Temporals 

 normally two followed by three, sometimes 1+2, 1+3, 

 2+3 or 2+4. Seven (rarely sir or eight) superior and nine 

 (rarely eight or 10) inferior labials, fifth and sixth superior 

 and fifth (or fourth) inferior largest, third and fourth super- 

 ior reaching eye, first pair of inferior meeting on median line. 

 Genials in two pairs, anterior larger than posterior. Scales 

 on body smooth, thin, imbricate, often in 21 usually in 23, 



