88. CORONELLA. 205 



D. Black, with yellow rings, the red colour appearing on 

 each side as rounded spots. 



</. Y<?. (Sc. 21; V. 218; Tehuantepec. 



' ") 



K. Kcd above, each scale tipped with black, the rings reduced 

 to mere traces here and there. 



a. HUT. (Sc. 23; V. 218; Yucatan. 



F. Almost uniform black, with very indistinct traces 

 of the light annuli. 



a. 4 (Sc. 21 ; V. 225 ; C. 51). Irazu, Costa F. D. Godman, Esq. 



Kica. [P.]. 



14. Coronella doliata. 



Coluber doliatus, Linn. S. N.i. p. 379 (1766) ; ffarl. Journ. Ac. 



Philtiil. v. 1827, p. 302, and Phys. Med. Res. p. 125 (l&J'o. 



doliatus, part., Daud. Kept. vii. p. 74 (1>0 i). 



dumfrisiensis, Sowerby, Brit. Misc. p. 5, pi. iii. (1804). 



Coronella coccinea, Schley. Phys. Serp. ii. p. 57 (1837) ; Jan, Arch. 



Zoul. A nut. Phys. ii. 1803, p. 239, and Icon. Gen. 17, pi. i. tig. 1 



(1866) ; Bocourt, Miss. Sc. Mex., Sept. p. 608, pi. xxxix. tig. 1 



(1886). 



doliata, Holbr. N. Am. Herp. iii. p. 105, pi. xxiv. (1842). 



Calamaria elapsoidea, Holbr. 1. c. p. 119, pi. \\viii. 



Osceola elapsoidea, Baird $ Gir. Cat. N. Am. Kept. p. 133 (1853), 



ami Rep. U.S. Surv. It. R. x. pt. iii. pi. xxxiii. fig. 97 (1859) ; 



Cope, Proc. U.S. Xat. Mus. xiv. 1892, p. 600. 

 Lampropeltis coccinea, Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1860, p. 2". 

 Ophibolus doliatus, Garm. N. Am. Rept. p. 64, pi. v. fig. 2 (1883) ; 



H. Garin. J!><11. Jllin. Lab. iii. 1892, p. 2U8. 

 elapsoideus, II. Garm. I. c. 



Suout much depressed, slightly prominent ; rostal once and a 

 half as broad as deep, the portion visible from above measuring 

 about half its distance from the frontal ; suture between the inter- 

 nasals shorter than that between the pnefrontals ; frontal a little 

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

 a little shorter than the parietals ; loreal usually absent ; one pne- 

 and two postoculars; temporals 1+2; 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 17 or 19 rows. Ventrals 161-180; anal entire; subcaudals 

 31-54. Head and body scarlet, with pairs of black rings enclosing 

 each a white one ; the first white ring on the nape ; these rings 

 may be interrupted on the ventral surface. 



total length A'iO millim. ; tail 35. 



South-eastern United States. 



a. (Sc. 17 ; V. 161 ; C. 42). N. America. E. Doubleday, Esq. [P.]. 



