88. CORONELLA. 197 



the heail, separated by narrow pale linos and followed by one or 

 nn ire l>l:ifk bands across the nape ; lips and gular region yellowish ; 



r p.-irts whitish, the borders of the shields blackish. 

 \V<-t Africa. 



\$. (V. 187; C. 58). W. Africa. Sir J. Richardson [P.'j. 



(Type of Coryphodon margaritiferus.) 



7. Coronella getula. 



(',.1 uber getulus, Linn. S. N. i. p. 382 (1766); Catesby, Nat. Hist. 



Carol, pi. Hi. (1771); Daud. Kept. vi. p. 314, pl.'lxxvii. fig. 1 



(1803) ; Harl. Journ. Ac. Philad. v. 1827, p. 358, and Med. Phi/s. 



Res. p. 122 (1833) ; DeKat/, N. T. Faun. iii. p. 37, pi. x. fig. 21 



. 1-42) : Gunth. Cat. p. 249 (1858). 

 ? Coluber eximius, Harl. II. cc. p. 360. 

 Coluber (Ophis) California, Blainn. N. Ann. Mas. iv. 1835, p. 292, 



pi. xxvii. tig. 1. 



Herpetodryas getulus, Schleg. Phys. Serp. ii. p. 198 (1>:;7). 

 Coronella getulus, Holbr. N. Am. Herp. iii. p. 95, pi. xxi. (lMi'> ; 



Dum. 4- Bibr. vii. p. 616 (1854) ; Jan, Arch. Zool. A'it. Phys. ii. 



1863, p. 244, and Icon. Gen. 12, pi. vi. & 14, pi. v. (18t5.lt. 



sayi, Holbr. 1. c. p. 99, pi. xxii. ; Dum. $ Bibr. p. 619; Gunth. 

 Cat. p. 41 ; Jan, II. cc. 



Ophibolus bpylii, Baird $ Gir. Cat. N. Am. Kept. p. 82 (1853). 



splendidus, Baird fy Gir. I. c. p. 83. 



sayi, Baird Sf Gir. I. c. p. 84, and in Marcy's Explor. Red Riv. 



p. 228, pi. vii. (1853). 

 getulus, Baird fy Gir. 1. c. p. 85; Cope, Check-list N. Am. 



Rept. p. 37 (1875) ; Garm. N. Am. Rept. p. 68, pi. v. figs. 3 & 4 



(1883); Cope, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mm. xiv. 1892, p. 611 ; H. Garm. 



Bull. Illin. Lab. iii. 1892, p. 297 ; Hay, Batr. $ Rept. Indian-i, 



p. 110(1893). 

 Coronella balteata, Hallow. Proc. Ac. Philad. 1853, p. 226, and Rp. 



Ri-plor. Sun: R. R. x. pt. 4, pi. v. (1857). 



California), Dum. fy Bibr. p. 623. 

 Lampropeltia sayi, Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1860, p. 254 



splendida, Cope, I. c. p. 255. 

 getula, Cope, I. c. 



boylii, Cope, I. c. 



boylii, var. conjuncta, Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1861, p. 301. 

 Coronella pseudogetulus, Jan, II. cc. y. L'47, Icon. 12, pi. vi. tig. 2. 

 Ophibolus californiae, Cope, Check-lift, p. 37. 



getulus niger, eiseni, multicinctus, Yarrow, Proc. U.S. Xnt. 



Mus. v. 1882, p. 438. 



Snout slightly prominent ; rostral about once and a half as broad 

 as deep, the portion visible from above measuring about one third 

 its distance from the frontal ; suture between the internasals about 

 half as long as that between the praef rentals ; frontal considerably 

 longer than broad, as long as its distance from the end of the snout, 

 shorter than the parietals ; loreal as long as deep, or deeper than 

 long, or longer than deep, sometimes absent; one pne- and two 

 (rarely three) postoculars; temporals 2 + 2 or 2 -(-3; seven upper 

 labials, third and fourth entering the eye; four lower labials in 

 contact with the anterior chin-shields, which are as long as or 



