88. COROSELLA. 199 



Ophibolus evansii, Kennicott, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1859, p. 90. 



I.:im|.ri>|.i-ltis iMllLM~t'T. ('/. I'm,: Ac. Philad. 18<>0, j>. -~>~>. 



- riiombunmriiiattt, Cupe, I.e.; Stfjneyer, Proc. U.ti. Xat. Mus. 



\u. -^-.t, p. . 



Cor.iii.-lla t-vansii, Jnti, II. cc. p. 243, fig. 3. ^ 



-- ti^riuu, ./<//(, Jr<7*. /<W. J/M/i 1 . l'hi/a. ii. p. 244. 



Ophibolus calligastor, Cope, Check-li.tt \. Am. L',-j>f. p. 37 (1 V 7~H. 



ami l'rc. I'.S. .\uf. Mus. xiv. 1892, p. (JlO; H. (farm. Hull. 



Illin. IM!>. iii. 1SU2, p. :*.:;. 

 - triangulus, vars. calligaster et rhombomaculatus, Garm. K. 



Am. Kept. pp. 00 & 150 (1883). 



small. Snout scarcely 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 shorter than that between the praefrontals ; frontal con- 

 siderably longer than broad, as long as or longer than its distance 

 from the end of the snout, shorter than the parietals ; loreal longer 

 than deep ; one prae- and two postoculars ; temporals 1+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 longer 

 than the posterior. Scales in 21 to 25 rows. Yentrals 192-213 ; 

 anal entire ; subcaudals 40-52. Pale brown above, with large, 

 transversely elliptic, dark, black-edged spots on the back and an 

 alternating series of smaller ones along the side ; a pair of elongate 

 dark spots or bands on the nape, and a dark oblique streak behind 

 the eye ; red inferiorly, with brown spots. 



Total length 790 millira. ; tail 110. 



North America east of the Rocky Mountains, as far north as 

 Virginia. 



a. $ (Sc, 25 ; V. 210 ; C. 49). Missouri. Smithsonian Institution 



[P.]. 



b. Yg. (Sc. 21 ; V. 199; C. 49). Florida. Dr. Guillemard [P.I 



c. 2 (Sc. 25 ; V. 204 ; C. 40j. N. America. Dr. Riippell. 



9. Coronella leonis. 



Coronella leonis, Giinth. Biol. C.-Am., Rept. p. 110, pi. xxxix. fig. A 

 (1893). 



Snout longer and eye larger than in C. triangulum. Rostra 

 t\\ i< * as broad as deep, just visible from above ; suture between the 

 intrrnasals about two thirds the length of that between the pnr- 

 Irnnt uls ; frontal a little longer than broad, as long as its distance 

 from the rostral, shorter than the parietals ; loreal twice as long as 

 deep ; one pra- and two postoculars ; temporals 2+3 ; seven upper 

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

 contact with the anterior chin-shields, which are longer than the 

 rior. Scales in 23 rows. Ventrals 200; anal i-ntiro; sub- 

 caudals 51. Grey above, with a dorsal series of co-shaped il, 

 black-edged spots ; a /^.-shaped marking on the nape ; a black 

 blotch with red centre on the frontal and another on each parietal 



