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SYNOPSES AND DESCRIPTIONS, 96 
Greyish-brown, with two to four irregular longitudinal series of black 
dots, sometimes absent, Belly uniform yellowish, Maryland to Georgia 
and Illinois. 
VIRGINIA HARPERTI. 
CarpopHis HARPERTI Dumeril & Bibron, 1854, Erp. Gén. VII, 135. 
VIRGINIA HARPERTI Cope, 1875, Check list, p. 35. 
Two triangular internasals. Prefrontals large, entering the orbit. Fron- 
tal pentagonal. Nasal bifid. Loreal and anteorbital fused, forming a 
long subrectangular plate. Postorbitals three, second largest. _Temporals 
1+2, anterior large, not in contact with orbitals. Labials six, third and 
fourth in orbit, fifth largest, in contact with the parietal by its upper angle. 
Infralabials six. Two pairs of elongate submentals, posterior divergent. 
Scales smooth, in 15 rows. Ventrals 111. Anal bifid. Subcaudals 32 pairs. 
Yellowish or olivaceous gray, punctulate with blackish. Lower portions 
white. South Carolina, (D. & B). 
CARPHOPHIS. 
Gervais, 1843. 
Body comparatively stout, subeylindrical; head small, not distinct from 
the neck, depressed; tail stout, conical. Crown-shields normal, short, 
broad, often fused or subdivided. Snout prominent, rostral bent back on 
the top. Nasal entire. Preocular united with the loreal, or very small. 
Scales broad, smooth, glossy, in 13 to 15 rows. Anal bifid. Subcaudals 
in two rows. 
A small preocular; 
a pair of internasals stramined. 
with transverse bands of black cincta. 
preocular united with the loreal; 
prefrontals and internasals fused helenae. 
prefrontals and internasals separate ; 
back reddish-brown amoena. 
back black vermis. 
CARPHOPHIS STRAMINEA. 
CHILOMENISCUS STRAMINEUS Cope, 1860, Pr. Ac. N. Se., Phil., 339. 
Internasals partly or entirely separated by the rostral. Frontal obtuse- 
angled in front. Labials seven, third and fourth in orbit. Infralabials 
