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"Coronella getulus, var. pseudogetulus, Jan, Icou. Gen. Ofid., I, 



Livr. 12, pi. VI, Fig. 2." 

 OphihohiH (jetulus hoylii, Cope, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., XIV. 1891, p. 



613. 

 Coronella getula, Boulenger, Cat. Snakes Brit. Mns., II, 1894, p. 



197 (part). 



Description. — A larger and stouter snake than L. 

 zonata. Top of head slightly flattened posteriorly, curv- 

 ing downward to broad rounded snout. Temporal 

 regions rarely if ever swollen. Rostral plate large, lit- 

 tle broader than 

 high, hollowed below 

 and bounded behind 

 by internasal, ante- 

 rior nasal, and first 

 labial plates. Plates 

 on top of head, a pair 



of internasals, a pair of prefrontals, a short, broad, 

 irregularly wedge-shaped frontal, supraocular of each 

 side, and a pair of large parietals. Anterior and pos- 

 terior nasals distinct. A small loreal present, but 

 sometimes united with posterior nasal. One preocular 

 and two (rarely one) postoculars. Temporals nor- 

 mally two followed by three, but may be 2-2, 2-4, or 

 3-4. Seven superior and eight to ten inferior labials, 

 fifth and sixth superior and fifth or fourth inferior 

 largest, third and fourth superior reaching eye, first 

 pair of inferior meeting on median line. Geneials in 

 two pair, anterior much larger than posterior. Scales 

 smooth, thin, imbricate, in twenty-three rows. Anal 

 plate undivided. Gastrosteges varying in number from 

 two hundred and twenty-one to two hundred and fifty- 

 five. Urosteges in two series of from forty-six to sixty, 

 a few of the first sometimes undivided. 



The snout and sides of the head are yellow or white, 



