REVISION OP THE KING SNAKES. 75 



LAMPROPELTIS GETULUS BOYLU (Baird and GIrard). 



unx snake; botle's kino snake; black and vhitk kino snake. 

 Fig. 27. 



1853. OpMbolua boylii BArap and Girahd, Cat . N. Amer. Kept., pt. 1, Jan., 

 ifr p. 82 (type locality ,"lll Dorado County, California; type, U. S. Nat. Mus., 



noTiegS; Dr. C. C. Boyle, collector).— Baird, U. S. and Mex. Bound. 

 Surv., 1859, p. 20; Pacif. R. R. Surv., vol. 10, pt. 3, no. 1, 1859, pi. 30, 

 fig. 57; same, vol. 10 (Williamson's Route), pt. 4, no. 4, 1859, p. 11. — 

 Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1866, p. 305. — Lampropeltia 

 boylii, same, 1860, p. 255. — Cooper, Proc. California Acad. Sci., vol. 4, 

 1873, p. 79.— Stejneger, N. Amer. Fauna, no. 7, pt. 2, 1893, p. 204.— 

 Van Denburgh, Proc. California Acad. Sci., ser. 2, vol. 5, 1895, p. 

 1006; Proc. California Acad. Sci., ser. 2, vol. 5, pt. 3, 1896, p. 1006; 

 Occ. Papers California Acad. Sci., vol. 5, 1897, p. 169.— McLain, 

 Coll. Rept. W. Coast U. S., 1899, p. 11.— Meek, Field Columb. Mus. Publ., 

 no. 104, vol. 7, no. 1, 1906, p. 15. — Grinnell and Grinnell, Throop Inst. 

 Bull., no. 35, 1907, p. 41. — Grinnell, Univ. California Publ. Zool., vol. 5, 

 no. 1, 1908, p. 165. — Van Denburgh, Proc. California Acad. Sci., ser. 4, 

 vol. 3, 1912, p. 150. — Van Denburgh and Slevin, Proc. California 

 Acad. Sci., ser. 4, vol. 3, 1913, p. 415.— Camp, Univ. California Publ. 

 Zool., vol. 12, no. 17, 1916, p. 531.— Pemberton, Condor, 1916, p. 233.— 

 Grinnell and Camp, Univ. California Publ. Zool., vol. 17, no. 10, 1917, 

 p. 186. — ^Bentlet, Copeia, no. 75, 1919, p. 90. — Coronella boylii Jan, 

 Arch. Zool. Anat., vol. 2, fasc. 2, 1863, pp. 238, 246. 



1853. Coronella balteata Hallowell, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 6, 

 p. 236 (type locality: California); Pacif. R. R. Surv., vol. 10, pt. 4, no. 1, 

 1859, pp. 14, 24, pi. 5. 



1863. Coronella pseiuiogetulus Jan, Arch. Zool. Anat., vol. 2, faec. 2, pp. 238, 247. 



1865. Coronella getulus pstudogetuhis Jan, Icon. Gen. Ophid., livr. 12, pi. 6, 

 fig. 2 (a-g). 



1875. Ophibolus getulus boylii Cope, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 1, p. 37.— Yarrow, 

 Rep. Geog. and Geol. Explor. Surv. W. 100th Mer., vol. 5, chap. 4, 1875, 

 p. 538.— CouES, same, chap, 5, 1875, p. 618. — Coues and Yarrow, 

 Bull. U. S. Geol. and Geog. Surv. Terr., vol. 4, art. 11, 1878, p. 283.— 

 Yarrow, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 24, 1882, p. 92.— Cope, Proc. Acad. 

 Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1883, p. 29.— Garman, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., 

 vol. 7, no. 3, pt.'l, 1883, pp. 69, 157.— Townsend, Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., vol. 10, 1887, p. 239.— Cope, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 14, 1891, 

 p. 613; Rep. U. S. Nat. Mus. for 1898, 1900, p. 919, fig. 230.— Brown, Proc. 

 Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1901, p. 78.— Ditmars, Reptile Book, 1907, 

 pp. 341, 363, pi. 103, fig. 9, pi. 1,08 (lower fig.); Rept. of World, 1910, 

 p. 271. 



1894. Coronella getula (part) Botjlenger, Cat. Snakes Brit. Mus., vol. 2, p. 198. 



1913. Lampropeltis boylei Atsatt, Univ. California Publ. Zool. , vol. 12, no. 3, p. 41. 



1917. Lampropeltis boylii boylii Stejneger and Barbour, Check List, p. 87. 



W D escription. — ^The scutellation of the^Pacific Coast representative 

 of the getulus group may be defined as follows plates, 206 Jo 



254 ; caudars 741 to 62; supralabials, 7, infrequently 8; infralabials 9, 

 often 10; oculars^ 1 and 2; temporals, 2+3+4; posterior chin shields 

 only about two-thirds as long^s the anterior, parallel, and separated 

 186650-21— BulL 114 C 



