26 Storer on the 
` the eye, black; iris cupreous. Scales rhomboidal, 
smooth, not carinated. Tail six inches in length, 
gradually tapering to the point. 
Four specimens vary in their plates and scales as 
follows : 
One specimen has 137 — 85 caudal scales. 
A second E 4132 0-54 e 
A third [14 138 tc 81 [41 a“ 
A fourth a 197 f 84. * j 
Like the preceding species, this feeds upon insects. 
C. punctatus. Lin. The ringed Snake. 
Shaw's Gen. Zoology, vol. iii. pt. 9. p. 553. * 
Harlan's Med. and Phys. Res. p. 117. D d 
N. A. Herp. vol. ii. p. 115, et fig. 
This pretty species is less common than either of 
the preceding, being usually found concealed beneath 
the bark of decaying trees. 'The specimen before 
me is fourteen inches in length ; the body is elon- 
gated, with smooth scales. Color above, of an uni- 
form bluish brown ; beneath, of a reddish yellows 
with a fbagtiidinal: row of black spots u 
side of the abdomen, where’ „the abdominal plates 
and lateral scales unite; a third row of similar spots 
runs longitudinally alongithe: middle of the abdomen, 
as far as the vent, beyond which they are not visible. 
Ten plates upon thafjep ! of the head ; ; sixteen plates, 
beside that at the tip, border the upper jaw; and 
fourteen, margin the lower. Head half an inch long, _ 1 
one quarter of an inch wide j flatte: ned a 
lighter colored than the body. Nostrils large. wee 
~ vp. 
| 
| 
