M w ITORK BTA1 i I'M 



■r black, with nan ross lines; bead Mark, spotted 



Mow 11a 



irk irrav, \\ ith darker blotches; below clouded 



with reddish or yellowish. . 12a 



Reddish to purplish brown, darker blotches; below red, black 



Bpotted 1"> 



,i brown, with chocolate blotches; below yellowish white, 



black blotched 7 



Ghray to brown, with dark blotches; below yellowish to 



greenish yellow; rostral recurved 3 



Ashy gray, with brown saddle Bpots; below tessclated with 



black 10a 



Whitish, with chestnut blotches black margined; below 



yellowish 9 



Olivaceous to brownish, with black spots; below greenish 



white 20b 



ttle; head markedly triangular; neck constricted, distinct from 

 .•ly 

 Color brownish, with darker blotches; top of head copper red; below 



yellowish, with dark spots 21 



3) Tuil terminating in a rattle; head very distinct, triangular, neck 

 constricted 



1 lead covered with many small scales 23 



Head with a few large plates SB 



A. COLUBRIDAE 



Top of liead covered with plates ; no pit between eye and nostril ; 

 upper jaw with normal (solid) teeth, no poison fangs ; neck not 

 markedly constricted ; head more or less elong -ubcaudals 



divided. Species all harmless. 



1 Carphophiops amoenus (Say) 



Warm snah 



De Kay. C a 1 a m a r i a araoena 

 Jordan. C a r p h o p h i o p s amoenus 

 Head small, not distinctly 

 marked off from body, frontal 

 plate hexagonal, nearly as broad 

 aa long. Tail short, tapering to 

 a point. Scale- all smooth, in 13 

 r<»v 



Above bright chestnut brown, 

 very glossy; beneath, bright sal- 

 fig. 2 Carphophiops amoenus mon Color. 



