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Ground color light brown and narrowl}" restricted by large, con- 

 spicuous, quadrate, black blotches arranged in two rows on either 

 side. Spots of the lower roAv larger; those of the two upper rows 

 occasionally fused across the back. The first one or two scale rows 



Fig. 36. Distribution of Clonophis kirtlandii. 

 Horizontal ruling; specimens examined; vertical ruling, reports only. 



light ash, like the ends of the ventrals. Top of head marbled Avith 

 black and brown. Supralabials dull yellow. A small, well defined, 

 black spot on the outer end of each ventral scute, forming with its 

 fellows a row of spots along either side of the abdomen. Ends of 

 ventrals outside of spots gray finely speckled with black. Middle of 

 the abdomen said to be red in life, in alcohol it becomes vellow. 



