66 COLUBRID2E. 



d. Yg. (Sc. 27 ; V. 201 ; Coimbra. Dr. Lopes Vieira 

 C. 60). [P.]. 



e. HOT. (Sc. 27 ; V. 204 ; Coimbra. Prof. Barboza du 

 A. 1 ; C. 58). Bocage [P.]. 



f. d (Sc. 27; V. 205; Alfeite, Portugal. Prof. Barboza du 

 C. 63). Bocage [P.]. 



g. Yg. (Sc. 27; V. 213; Aldegallega, Portugal. Prof. Barboza du 

 C. 60). Bocage [P.]. 



h. Skull. Montpellier. 



42. Coluber arizonae. 



Arizona elegans, Kennicott, Rep. U.S. Mex. Bound. Surv. ii. liept. 



p. 18, pi. xiii. (1859); Bocourt, Miss. Sc. Hex., Kept. p. 076 



(1888). 



Pityophis elegans, Cope, Check-list N. Am. Kept, p. 39 (1875). 

 Rhinechis elegans, Cope, Proc. Am. Philos. Soc. xxiii. 1886, p. 284, 



and Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xiv. 1892, p. 638. 



Snout strongly projecting ; rostral as deep as broad, forming an 

 acute angle posteriorly, the portion visible from above measuring 

 nearly two thirds its distance from the frontal : internasals nearly 

 as long as the praefrontals ; frontal a little longer than broad, a little 

 shorter than its distance from the end of the snout or than the 

 parietals ; loreal longer than deep ; one prae- and two postoculars ; 

 temporals 2 + 3 or 4 ; eight upper labials, fourth and fifth 

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

 chin-shields, which are as long as or longer than the posterior. 

 Scales smooth, in 27 to 31 rows. Ventrals 212-227 ; anal entire ; 

 subcaudals 46-59. Pale brown above ; the vertebral line yellowish, 

 but interrupted by a series of larger, oval, transverse, dark-edged 

 brown spots ; a brown streak from the eye to the angle of the mouth; 

 lower parts white. 



Total length 1020 millim. ; tail 160. 



Southern United States, from California to the Mississippi ; North 

 Mexico. 



a. c? (Sc. 29 ; V. 212 ; Duval Co,, Texas. W. Taylor, Esq. [0.1 

 C. 59). 



b. $ (Sc. 27 ; V. 227 ; Warner's Eanch, San Prof. C. Eigenmann 

 C. 46). Diego Co., Cali- [C.]. 



forma. 



43. Coluber deppii. 



Elaphis pleurostictus, Dum. 8f Bibr. vii. p. 244 (1854). 



deppei, Dum. fy Bibr. t. c. p. 268. 



Pituophis vertebralis, Giinth. Cat. p. 86 (1858). 



Arizona jani, Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1860, p. 369. 



Pituophis mexicanus (non D. 8f B.), Jan, Icon. Gen. 22, pi. ii. fig. 1 



(1867). 

 deppei, Jan, I. c. fig. 2; Duges, La Naturaleza, (2) i. 1888, 



p. 123, pi. xiii. fig. 15 ; Gunth. Biol. C.-Am., liept. p. 124 (1894). 



