107. ABA8TOR. 289 



pupil ; no pneocular ; loreal and prsefrontal entering the eye. Body 

 cylindrical ; scales smooth or feebly keeled, in 15 or 17 rows, without 

 apical pits ; vontrals rounded. Tail short ; subcaudals in two rows. 

 North America. 



1. Virginia valeriae. 



Virginia Valeria), Baird 8f Gir. Cat. N. Am. Kept. p. 127 (1853); 

 Jan, Arch. Zoo!. Anat. Phys. ii. 1862, p. 24, and Icon. Gin. 12, 

 ]1. ii. fig. 5 (1865) ; Garm. N. Am. Kept. p. 98, pi. vii. fig. 8 

 (1883) ; H. Garm. Jlnll. lllin. Lab. iii. 1802, p. 307. 



Carphophis harpertii, Dum. 3f Bibr. vii. p. 135 (1854). 



Virginia harperti, Cope, Check-list N. Am. Rept. p. 36 (1875) ; 

 Garm. 1. c. p. 99. 



barpertii, part., Bocourt, Miss. Sc. Mex., Rept. p. 543, pi. xxxii. 



fig. 3 (1883). 



Rostral nearly as deep as broad, visible from above ; internasals 

 much shorter than the praefrontals ; frontal longer than broad, 

 shorter than the parietals ; loreal once and a half to twice and a half 

 as long as deep; two or three postoculars; temporals 1+2; six 

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

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

 shorter than the posterior. Scales in 15 rows, smooth or feebly 

 keeled. Yentrals 111-128; anal divided; subcaudals 24-37. 

 Yellowish or greyish brown above, uniform or with minute black dots 

 which may form two or four longitudinal series ; dull yellow beneath. 



Total length 220 millim. ; tail 40. 



United States, from Maryland and Illinois to Georgia and Texas. 



a-c. d (V. 112, 113 ; C. 34, Raleigh, N. Carolina. Messrs. Brimley [C.]. 

 36) & (V. 115;C.24). 



2. Virginia elegans. 



Virginia elegans, KennicoU, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1859, p. 99 ; Jan, Arch. 

 Zool. Anat. Phys. ii. 1862, p. 24, and Icon. Gen. 12, pi. ii. fig. 6 

 (1865) ; Cope, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xiv. 1892, p. 599. 



harpertii, part., Bocourt, Miss. Sc. Mex.. Rept. p. 548, pi. xxxii. 



fig. 4 (1883). 



Differs from the preceding in the narrower scales (which may 

 be feebly keeled) in 17 rows. Ventrals 135 ; subcaudals 31. Uni- 

 form light olivaceous brown above, dull yellowish white beneath. 



Southern Illinois, Arkansas, Texas. 



107. ABASTOR. 



Pseudoeryx, part, Htziny. X. Clux*. 11,-pt. p. 29 (1820). 

 H.-lii-ops, part., Wagler, Syst. Amph. p. 170 (1830). 

 Homalopsis, pnrt., 8&teg. PKys. *,->/>. ii. p. 2!)7 (1837). 

 Abastor, (frnv, <"<//. .V//. p. 7> <1M:>): /ininl .V (fir. Cat. A. Am 

 t. p. li'o (ls5:!j; Cope, I'roc. U.S. Nat. Mm. xiv. 1892, p. 603. 

 Calopisma, part., limn. \ ]>H,r. j:,-/>. a.'n. vii. p. 336 (1854); Jan, 

 Arch. Zool. Anat. Phys. iii. l-<5, p. 241. 



Maxillary teeth subequal. 15 to 17; mandibular teeth subequal. 



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