214 COI.UBEIDJB. 



1. Cemophora coccinea. 



Coluber coccineus, Blumrnb., Toiyt's Mat/. Phyt. u. Naturg. v. 1788, 



p. 11, pi. i.; Daiid. Rt-pt. vii'. p. 48,' pi. Ixxxiii. fig. 1 (1803); 



JItir/tui, Jutirn. Ac. Philnd. \. 18l7, p. 356, and Phys. Med. Res. 



p. 119 (1836). 



Klnps coccineus, Merr. Tent. p. 145 (1820). 

 1 K'tcrodon coccineus, Schleg. Phyx. Serp, ii. p. 102, pi. iii. figs. 15 & 16 



(1837). 

 Rhinostoma coccineus, Holbr. N. Am. Herp. iii. p. 125, pi. xxx. 



(1842) ; Baird 8f Gir. Cat. N. Am. Sept. p. 118 (1853), and Rep. 



U.S. JErplor. Surv. R. R. x. pt. iii. pi. xxxiii. fig. 89 (1859). 

 Simotes coccineus, Dum. Sf Bibr. vii. p. 637, pi. Ixxxii. fig. 2 (1854) ; 



Giinth. Cat. p. 26 (1858). 

 Cemophora coccinea, Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1860, p. 244 ; Jan, Arch. 



Zoul. Anat. Phys. ii. 1863, p. 230, and Icon. Gen. 11, pi. v. 



figs. 1 & 2 (1865) ; Garm. N. Am. Rept. p. 78, pi. vi. fig. 1 (1883) ; 



liocourt, Miss. Sc. Mex., Rept. p. 567, pi. xxxv. fig. 6 (1883) ; 



Cope, Proc. U.S. Nat. Miis. xiv. 1892, p. 602. 

 copii, Jan, II. cc. fig. 3. 



Portion of rostral visible from above as long as or a little longer 

 than its distance from the frontal ; suture between the internasals 

 usually shorter than that between the prsefrontals ; frontal as long 

 as broad or a little longer, longer than its distance from the end of 

 the snout, as long as the parietals, at least twice as broad as the 

 supraocular ; loreal longer than deep ; one or two prse- and one or 

 two postoculars ; temporals 1+2 (rarely 2 + 2) ; six or seven upper 

 labials, second and third or third and fourth, or third only entering 

 the eye ; three or four lower labials in contact with the anterior 

 chin-shields ; posterior chin-shields small. Scales in 19 rows. 

 Yentrals 157-188 ; anal entire ; subcaudals 35-45. lied above (in 

 life), with yellow or pale olive transverse bands between pairs of 

 crescentic black bands ; lower parts white. 



Total length 660 millim. ; tail 80. 



South-eastern United States. 



a. c? (V. 166 ; C. 44). Charleston. 



b. c? (V. 163; C. 41). Ealeigh, N. Carolhm. Messrs. Brindley[C.]. 



c. d (V. 174 ; C. 45). Lake Kerr, Florida. A. Erwin Brown, 



Esq. [P.]. 

 d-e. $ (V. 169, 177 ; Marion Co., Florida. A. Erwin Brown, 



C. 39, 43). Esq. [P.]. 



/. $ (V. 168; C. 37). Florida. Dr. Guilleinard [P.]. 



y-h, i. c? (V. 174, 157; N. America. 



C. 43,39) & $(V.174; 



C. 40). 



92. SIMOTES. 



Coronella, part., Schleg. Phys. Serp. ii. p. 50 (1837). 



Xenodon, part., Schlrg. t. c. p. 80. 



Simotes, part., Dum. 8f Bibr. Mem. Ac. Sc. xxiii. 1853, p. 472, and 



Erp. Gen. vii. p. 624 (1854) ; Giinth. Cat. Col. Sn. p. 23 (1858). 

 Simotes, Jan, Arch. Zool. Anat. Phys. ii. 1863, p. 232 ; Giinth. Rept. 



Brit. Ind. p. 212 (1864) ; Bouleng. Faun. 2nd., Rept. p. 309 (1890). 



