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CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 



The back and sides are blackish brown; the former, 

 with a rather indistinct longitudinal line composed of cin- 

 namon colored spots upon the centers of the scales of the 

 median series, and upon the inner edges of those forming 

 the first row on each side of this series; the latter, with 

 a few scales of the first and second rows dotted, centrally, 

 with cinnamon or yellowish white. A band of cinnamon 

 crosses the nape. The gulars, geneials, and inferior 

 labials, are blackish brown with paler centers. The 

 plates on the top and sides of the head are brownish 

 black, with faintly indicated dots of raw umber upon the 

 loreal, pre- and postocular plates, and near the posterior 

 edges of the supraoculars and parietals. There are six 

 cinnamon colored blotches on the upper surface of the 

 tail. The gastrosteges and urosteges are entirely brownish 

 black, with the exception of the first ten gastrosteges, 

 which show faint cinnamon colored dots. 



Total length 965 mm. Tail 125 mm. 



A small specimen (290 mm.) has, on the sides, rather 

 numerous cinnamon colored blotches or enlargements of 

 a similarly colored longitudinal line. This line is of about 

 the width of one row of scales, and occupies the tips of 

 the gastrosteges and the lower half of each scale of the 

 first series. 



Lint of specimens of Lampropeltis niticla. 



Cal. Acad. 

 Sci. No. 



Locality. 



Date. 



Collector. 



800 

 1533 



San Jose del Cabo, L. C. 



Sept., 1893 

 Sept., 1894 



Gustav Eisen. 

 EisenandVaslit. 



Hypsiglena ochrorhyncha Cope. 



Hypsiglena ochrorhynchus. 



1860, Cope, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., p. 246. 



(1894, Boulenger, Cat. Snakes Brit. Mus., ii, p. 209 [part]. 



