^. lowerjaw. Eyes pompes, Nostrils of moderate: v 
32 Storer on the 
size. 
The abdominal plates are 139; - caudal scales 72. 
In a young individual lying before me, seventeen - 
inches in length, with the same number of abdominal 
plates and caudal scales with the above described 
specimen, the back is crossed transversely by a 
large number of yellow bands, and the scales on the | 
tail are so strongly keeled, as to produce well marked E 
. grooves between the rows of scales. 
|. "This species feeds upon frogs. 
C. saurita. Lin. The riband Snake. | 
Shaw's Gen. Zoology, vol. iii. pt. 2. p. 532. 
Harlan's Med. and Phys. Res. p. 115. 
This beautiful little snake is not very common ; 
it resembles somewhat the sirtalis, but it is smaller, 
lighter colored, and much more graceful in its figure 
and proportions. Its form is very slender, tapering 
to an acute point. Above, dark brown, with three 
longitudinal stripes of a greenish white color, which 
are very distinet as far as the vent, back of which 
they are insensibly effaced; both sides of the dorsal 
line, and the upper edge of the lateral lines, margined 
with black. Whole length of the specimen before 
me, ten inches; length of the tail, three and a half 
inches. The scales upon the top of the head are 
moderate in size; fourteen upon the upper jaw, 
twenty upon the lower jaw. Eyes rather large: 
The abdominal plates are 162; caudal scales 112. 
