60. COLTTBEB. 40 



B. Uniform brown above, yellowish beneath, the caudal shields 

 edjred with brown. 



c. c? (V. 210; C. 70). Seoul, Corea. C. W. Campbell, Esq. [P.]. 



21. Coluber vulpinus. 



phis vulpinus, Baird fy Gir. Cat. N. Am. Rept. p. 7"> (1 s *-! 1 . 



anil llt'p. Kcplnr. SKIT. Jl. ."//.*. It. x. pi. xxix. tig. 51 (ItfoU) ; 



HIII/, lititr. v-V Rept. Indiana, p. 90 (1893). 

 Coluber vulpinus, Cope, Check-List N. Am. Rept. p. 39 (1875). 

 Elaphis gutuitus, var. vulpinus, Garm. N. Am. Rept. p. 56 (1888). 



Eye rather small. Rostral broader than deep, the portion visible 

 from above measuring one third its distance from the frontal ; inter- 

 nasals broader than long, much shorter than the prtef rentals ; frontal 

 nearly as long as broad, as long as its distance from the rostral, shorter 

 than the parietals ; loreal as long as deep ; one prae- and two post- 

 oculars; temporals 2+3; eight upper labials, fourth and fifth 

 entering the eye ; five lower labials in contact with the anterior 

 chin-shields, which are a little longer than the posterior. Scales in 

 25 (rarely 23 or 27) rows, dorsals feebly but very distinctly keeled, 

 rals 200-234 ; anal divided ; subcaudals 67-85. Yellowi-li 

 brown above, with a dorsal series of large chestnut-brown black- 

 edged spots and an alternating lateral series of smaller spots ; head 

 with indistinct dark markings ; two dark stripes along the occiput 

 and nape ; lower parts yellowish, checkered with black. 



Total length '.>(>() millim. 



Northern United States east of the Rocky Mountains (Minnesota, 

 Michigan, Wisconsin, Indiana). 



a. $ (V. 207 ; C. ?). Wisconsin. Smithsonian Institution [P.]. 



22. Coluber laetus. 



Scotophis laetus, Baird Sf Gir. Cat. N. Am. Rept. p. 77, and in 



Marctfs Rep. Red Riv. p. 2i>7, pi. vi. (1853). 



confinis, Baird Sf Gir. Cat. p. 76. 

 ? Coluber rosaceus, Cope, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xi. 1838, p. 388, 



pi. xxxvi. tig. 3. 



Rostral broader than deep, just visible from above ; internasals 

 much shorter than the pnefrontals ; frontal a little longer than 

 broad, as long as its distance from the end of the snout, shorter 

 than the parietals ; loreal a little longer than deep ; one pne- and 

 two postoculars ; temporals 2+3; eight upper labials, fourth and 

 fifth entering the eye ; five lower labials in contact with the anterior 

 chin-shields, which are as long as the posterior. Scales smooth or 

 faintly keeled, in 25 to 29 rows. Ventrals obtusely angulate 

 laterally, 220-240 ; anal divided ; subcaudals 72-81. Above with 

 a series of large squarish brown black-edged blotches, separated by 

 brownish-white or grey interspaces ; two alternating lateral series 

 of small spots on each side ; a brown band across the end of the 

 snout, another from one angle of the mouth to the other, passing 

 through the eyes and across the forehead ; a brown spot below the 



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