GIG ZOOLOGY— REPTILES AND BATRAUHIANS OF ARIZONA. 



■ each scale as high as long, and less strongly (-annate. Dorsal stripe narrow, 

 covering one and less than two half rows of scales. . . . Color uniform dull 

 brownish-ash or clay color, with the dorsal and lateral stripes whitish-yellow. 

 A few of the scales have narrow black spots on their edges, but these are 

 prominent, and never extend over a scale, appearing as indistinct mot- 

 tlino-s of black on the ground color always on the rows next the stripes. 

 The head above is light olive-ash. The lateral stripe is on the third and 

 fourth rows, and is narrower than in E. proximo, covering rather less than 

 two half scales. The color below the lateral stripe is a little lighter than 

 that of the back. The exterior dorsal row is much wider than in any of the 

 allied species, each scale being as high as long. The second row is much 

 narrower, though a little wider than the third. The eye is strikingly large, 

 and the superciliaries arc raised, rendering the fore part of the crown an 

 inclined plane, vet the muzzle is higher than in E. proximo," — (Descr. orig.) 

 With this species, described from Tucson, I am acquainted only by the 

 above description, as no specimens were included in my collections. 



56. Bascanium* taeniatum, {Hallow.) Cope. 



Leptopkis tarniata, Hallow., Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., vi, 185-2, 181. — Id., Sir- 



greave'sExp. Zufii &Col. Riv., 1853, 133, 140. 

 Masticophis twniatus, Bo. & Gik., Cat. N. A. Rept., 1853, 103.— Bd., P. 1!. R. Rep , 



x, 1S59, Beckwitb's Route, Reptiles, 20, pi. 23.— Id., ib., Abbott's Route, 



Reptiles, 11.— Coop. & SuCKL., Nat. Hist. Wash. Terr.. 1800, 302.— Cope, 



Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila.. 1866, 305. 

 Drymobius tceniatm, Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1860, 561. 

 Bascanium tcenia-tum, Cope, Cheek-List, 1875, 40. 

 Masticophis schottii, Bd. & Gir., Cat, N. A. Rept., 1853, 100.— Bd., U. S. & Mex. 



Bound. Surv., ii, pt. ii, 1850, Reptiles, 20. pi. 18. 

 ? Leptophis lateralis. Hallow.. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1853. 237 (a separate 



variety?). 



Several specimens from various parts of the Territory, including old 

 and young; the former considered by Professor Cope to represent "Leptophis 

 lateralis" of Hallowed. The B. tceniatum, as redescribed by Baird and Chard, 

 has a broad, brown, dark-edged, dorsal band, six and two half scales 

 wide, and yellow lateral bands, four scales wide, with a dark line on each 

 scale, and another dark line along the edge of the abdomen (six dark lines 



" Bascanion -(- Maaticoph is, B<1. & Cir. 



