SYNOPSES AND DESCRIPTIONS. 83 
FICIMIA CANA. 
GYALOPION CANUM Cope, 1860, Pr. Ac. N. Se., Phil., 243. 
“Form stout; tail one eighth of total length. Head slightly distinct, 
large, depressed. Rostral plate acute; its anterior border elevated; its 
upper surface eoneave. It is produced backwards, separating the pre- 
frontals, not reaching the vertical. Frontals two pairs. Nasal confounded 
with the first labial, a groove from the nostril to the suture of the second 
labial. No loreal; its place supplied by the post frontal. One pre two 
post oculars. Scales smooth; anal and subcaudal scutellae divided. Teeth 
small, of equal lengths. Pupil round.” 
Internasals small, triangular. Anterior border of frontal not angulated. 
Labials seven, third and fourth in orbit. Infralabials seven, fourth largest. 
Submentals short. Scales broad, in 17 rows. Ventrals 130. Subcaudals 
28 pairs. Total length 73 inches, tail 11 lines. 
Back brownish-grey, with irregular transverse bands of brown (thirty- 
one in specimen described), which extend to the ventrals, and anteriorly 
exhibit a tendency to divide in three series of spots. Eight spots on tail. 
First spot on neck large. A brown band from one angle of the mouth to 
the other, another through the eye across the frontals. Dirty yellowish 
beneath, including the first row of scales, Arizona. 
FICIMIA NASUS. 
Conorsis Nasus Giinther, 1858, Cat. Col. Snakes, p. 6. 
Body cylindrical; head not distinct from neck, rounded, conical, sharply 
pointed in front; tail stout, tapering. Eye moderate, pupil round. Mouth 
moderate. Teeth equal, smooth. Upper jaw much the longer. Rostral 
a protruding four-sided pyramid, with rounded edges, resembling Rhinos- 
toma, but without sharp ridge. Frontals and internasals fused, bent on 
the sides. Frontal very large, longer than broad, six-sided. Supraciliaries 
elongate. Nasal entire, in direct contact with the anteorbital. No loreal. 
One anteocular, not raised on the crown. Postoculars two. Labials seven, 
third and fourth in orbit. Temporal one, large, elongate. Submentals 
two pairs, anterior larger. Scales smooth, short, rounded at the tip, in 17 
rows. Ventrals 118. Anal bifid. Subcaudals 38 pairs. 
Nearly uniform dark olive, anteriorly some obsolete black spots; sides 
lighter; belly yellowish-white, edges of each ventral plate with two or 
three black spots. Total length 10 inches; tail 2 inches. (Giinther.) 
California. 
