60. COLUBER. 



b-c. <$ (Sc. 27 ; V. 231 ; Raleigh, N. Carolina. M asrs. Brimley [C.]. 

 C. 83) & hgr. (Sc. 27 ; 

 . 78). 



B. Dark brown above, but with distinct traces of the large spots ; 



belly largely blotched with blackish. ((7. allfyJianiensis, Holbr., 

 C. fiiidheimeri, B. & G.) 



a. c? (Sc. 26 ; V. 232 ; Bloomington, Indiana. C. H. Bollraan, Esq. 

 C. 80). [C.l. 



b. 2 (Sc. 27 ; V. 233 ; Illinois. Smithsonian Instit. 

 C. 77). [P.]. 



C. Pale brown above, with large dark brown spots ; yellowish 



inferiorly. (C'. spiloides, D. &, B.) 



a. c? (Sc. 29 ; V. 232 ; New York. 

 C. ?). 



b. $ (Sc. 29 ; V. 231 ; Duval Co., Texas. W. Taylor, Esq. [C.]. 

 C. 78). 



D. Spots as in C, combined with stripes as in E ; belly with largo 



brown spots. 



a. 2 (Sc. 27 ; V. 241 ; N. America. 

 C. 77). 



E. Pale brown above, with four dark brown or blackish stripes ; 



belly yellowish, without or with a few brown spots. (C. quadri- 

 vittatus, Holbr.) 



a, b. <3 (Sc. 27, 27 ; V. N. America. 

 237, 241 ; C. 84, 89). 



24. Coluber conspicillatus. 



Coluber conspicillatus, Boie, Isis, 1826, p. 211 ; Schleg. Phys. Serp. 



ii. p. 171 (1837), and Faun. Japan., Rept. p. 85, pi. iii. (1838) ; 



Giinth. Cat. p. 91 (1858). 

 Elaphis conspicillatus, Dum. fy Jiibr. vii. p. 285 (1854) ; Hilgendorf, 



Kifz/>. i/i-it. Xaturf. Fn-itnde, 1880, p. 114. 

 Coronellu conHpicillata, Jan, Arch. Zool. Anat. Phys. ii. 18C3, p. 249, 



and Icon. Gn. 14, pi. vi. fig. 1 (18C5). 

 Callopeltis conspicillatus, Giyliuli, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1887, p. 595. 



Rostral nearly twice as broad as deep, visible from above ; inter- 

 nasals much broader than long, 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 longer than 

 deep; one prac- and two postoculars ; temporals l-|-2or 2 + 2; 

 seven upper labials, third and fourth entering the eye ; four lower 

 labials in contact with the anterior chin-shields, which are a little 

 longer than the posterior. Scales smooth, or faintly keeled on the 

 :ii>r part of the body, in 21 rows. Ventrals distinctly ungu- 

 late laterally, 200-224; anal divided; subcaudals 00-70. Pale 



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