32 SYNOPSES AND DESCRIPTIONS, 
lar. Prefrontals in contact with labials. Supraoculars elongate, straight. 
Occipitals large. Nostril in posterior border of anterior portion of nasal. 
No loreal. One anteorbital. Postorbitals two. Temporals 1+2. Labials 
5, third and fourth in contact with orbitals and eye.  Infralabials 5 
(6). Submentals two pairs. Scales keeled, truncated, in 15 rows, outer 
larger and smooth. Anal entire. 
Light brown. <A yellow band two scales in width along the vertebral 
rows, bordered on each side by a reddish-brown band of equal width, 
below which passes a narrow black line, ending in a black spot behind 
the eye. Posterior margins of outer row marked with black. Top of 
head reddish-brown. Lips and flanks yellow. Guadalaxara, Mexico, 
(From descr.) 
STORERIA LINEATA, pl. J, fig. 4. 
Microps tineAtus Hallowell, 1856, Proc. Ac. N. Se., Phil., p. 241. 
Small. Stout, subcylindrical, belly broad, rounded; head indistinct, 
small, slightly convex on the crown; tail short, thick. Eye small, over 
third and fourth labials, pupil round. Mouth-cleft deep, curving near the 
angle. Snout narrow, rounded. Head-shields nine. Prefrontals reaching 
down on the side of the face. Rostral small, low, a little broader than 
high. Nasal grooved below the nostril. Loreal elongate, low. Orbitals 
1+2. Temporals 1+1+2. Labials seven, sixth wedged between the fifth 
and seventh, not reaching the lip. Infralabials six, fourth largest. Sub- 
mentals two pairs, posterior half as large as the anterior. Scales keeled, 
in 17 rows, median narrow, notched, outer two broad, smooth, or faintly 
keeled. Ventrals 138—145. Anal entire. Subcaudals 32—35 pairs. 
Light greyish-brown. A light line from the occiput to the end of the 
tail on the medial three rows of scales. The base of each scale in the row 
next to this is black, forming two lines of dots. A white line occupies half 
of each of the second and third outer rows. Bases of the scales black in 
the first, second, fourth, and sometimes fifth rows. Under the epiderm the 
appearance is much darker. Belly yellowish white; on each side of the 
middle a series of black spots on the bases of the ventrals, more or less 
confluent across the belly, and meeting on the neck, Head mottled with 
black. Kansas to Texas, 
