a 
206 COLUBRID, 
No vertebral stripe... 5.55% ef selene H. hammondii. 
A narrow yellow dorsal stripe; belly yellowish 
nN WARP Ee rte TE ee .. IL. mareianus, 
Il. Lateral stripe running along the third, or third and fourth 
rows of scales ; scales in 21 rows. 
Usually seven upper labials ...... pile SPARSE K. radix, 
Eight upper labials 2... ..0. ccs eens sence L. macrostemma. 
III. Lateral stripe running along the second, third, and fourth 
rows of scales ; scales in 19 rows........ M. butleri. 
A. Forma typica. 
Coluber ordinatus, Linn. S. N. i. p. 379 (1766) ; Catesby, Nat. Hist. 
Carolina, ii. pl. liii. (1771) ; Harl. Med. Phys. Res. p. 113 (1835). 
—— ibibe, Latr, Rept. iv. p. 70 (1802); Daud. Rept. vii. p. 181 
(1803). , 
—— bipunctatus, Latr. t. c. p. 85. 
Tropidonotus ordinatus, Bove, Isis, 1827, p. 5385; Holbr. N. Am. 
eo iv. p. 45, pl. xii. (1842). 
——- bipunctatus, part., Schleg. Phys. Serp. ii. p. 320 (1837) ; Dum. & 
Bibr, vii. p. 582 (1854). 
Eutainia catiete Baird & Gir. Cat, N. Am. Rept. p. 32 (1853) 
? Tropidonotus jauresi, Dum. § Bibr. t. c. p. 606. ~ 
Tropidonotus ordinatus, part., Giinth. Cat. p. 73 (1858). 
Eutznia sirtalis, subsp. ordinata, Cope, Wheeler’s Rep. U.S. Surv. 
W. 100th Mer. v. p. 546 (1875). 
—— sirtalis graminea, Cope, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xi. 1889, p. 399 
Seven upper labials, third and fourth entering the eye. Scales 
in 19 rows, outer row keeled. Ventrals 137-152; subcaudals 54- 
79. Olive or green above, uniform or with black spots disposed 
quincuncially ; stripes absent or very indistinct; greenish white 
inferiorly, with a more or less distinct black spot at the outer end 
of the ventrals. 
United States east of the Mississippi. 
a. 2 (V. 137; C.?). Georgia. Smithsonian Instit. [P.]. 
b-f, 9. & (V. 150; C.68)&  N. America. 
2 (V. 147, 142, 142, 142, 
141; CO. 63, 54, 53, 54, 71). 
B. Var. sirtalis. 
Coluber sirtalis, Zinn. S. N. i. p. 383 (1766); Catesby, Nat. Hist. 
Carol. ii. pl. li. (1771); Daud. Rept. vii. p. 146 (1803) ; Harl. 
Med. Phys. Res. p. 116 (1835) ; Storer, Rep. Fish. § Rept. Mass. 
p- 221 (1839). an : 
he parietalis, Say, Long’s Exped. Rocky M. i. p. 186 (1823); 
arl, l. ¢. 
Tropidonotus parietalis, Boie, Isis, 1827, p. 535; Hallow. Sitgreave's 
Doge Zunt § Color, R. p. 139, pl. xvii. (1858). d 
—— bipunctatus, part., Schleg. Phys. Serp. ii. p. 820 (1887); Dum, 
& Bibr. vii. p. 682 (1854). | . i 
—— sirtalis, Holbr. N. Am. Herp. iv. p. 41, pl. xi. (1842); Wied, 
N. Acta Ac. Leop. Carol. xxxii, i, 1865, p. 87; Garm. N. Am, — 
Rept. p. 25, pl. iii. fig. 8 (1883). = y 
