77+ 13. COLUBRIDM 



except usually toward the end of the tail. The eye is of 

 moderate size, with round pupil. Two species are known, 

 the second being Mexican. 



1 76. Rhinocheilus lecontei (Baird & Girard) 

 LONG-NOSED SNAKE 

 Plate 84 



Rhinocheilus lecontei BAIRD & GIRARD, Cat. N. Amer. Kept., Pt. i, Serp., 

 1853, p. 120 (type locality, San Diego, California); BAIRD, Rep. 

 Pac. R. R. Surv., Vol. X, 1859, Pt. Ill, pi. XXIII, figs. 90; BAIRD, 

 U. S. Mex. Bound. Surv., Vol. II, 1859, p. 21, pi. XX; JAN, Arch. 

 Zool. Anat. Phys., Vol. II, 1863, p. 217; COPE, Proc. Acad. Nat. 

 Sci. Phila., 1866, p. 304; COPE, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. i, 1875, 

 p. 36; JAN, Icongr. gener. des Ophid., 486 livr., 1876, pi. Ill, fig. i; 

 LOCKINGTON, Amer. Naturalist, 1880, p. 295; CARMAN, Mem. Mus. 

 Compr. Zool. Cambr., Vol. VIII, No. 3, 1883, p. 73; YARROW, Bull. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 24, 1883, p. 88; BOCOURT, Miss. Sci. au Mex., 

 1886, p. 602, pi. XL, figs. 7-7d; COPE, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Vol. 

 XIV, 1892, p. 606; GUNTHER, Biol. Centr.-Amer., Rept., 1893, 

 p. 100; BOULENGER, Cat. Snakes Brit. Mus., Vol. II, 1894, p. 212; 

 VAN DENBURGH, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., Ser. 2, Vol. 5, 1895, p. 142; 

 COCKERELL, American Naturalist, Vol. XXX, April, 1896, p. 326; 

 VAN DENBURGH, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., Ser. 2, Vol. 6, 1896, p. 346; 

 VAN DENBURGH, Occas. Papers Cal. Acad. Sci., V, 1897, P- i?4> 

 figs; COPE, Report U. S. Nat. Mus. for 1898, 1900, p. 931, fig. 236; 

 Brown, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1901, p. 86; STEJNEGER, Proc. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., Vol. XXV, 1902, p. 155; BROWN, Proc. Acad. Nat. 

 Sci. Phila., 1903, p. 551; BRANSON, Kansas Univ. Sci. Bull., Vol. II, 

 No. 13, 1904, p. 404, fig. 26; BAILEY, N. Amer. Fauna, No. 25, 1905, 

 pp. 28, 47; DITMARS, Reptile Book, 1907, p. 375; STRECKER, Proc. 

 Biol. Soc. Washington, Vol. XXI, 1908, p. 75; VAN DENBURGH, 

 Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., Ser. 4, Vol. 3, 1912, p. 154; HURTER, First 

 Ann. Rep. Laguna Marine Lab., 1912, p. 67; VAN DENBURGH & 

 SLEVIN, Proc. Cal. Sci., Ser. 4, Vol. 3, 1913, p. 413; ATSATT, Univ. 

 Cal. Publ. Zool., Vol. 12, No. 3, 1913, p. 42; RUTHLING, Copeia, 

 No. 21; 1915, p. 32; STRECKER, Baylor Bulletin, Vol. XVIII, No. 4, 

 1915, p. 40; GRINNELL & CAMP, Univ. Cal. Publ. Zool., Vol. 17, 

 No. 10, 1917, p. 1 88; STEJNEGER & BARBOUR, Check List N. Amer. 

 Amph. Rept., 1917, p. 91; COWLES, Journ. Entomol. & Zool. Pomona 

 College, Vol. XII, No. 3, 1920, p. 66; STEPHENS, Trans. San Diego 



