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COLUBER GUTTATUS.— Lmw(EMs. 



Plate XXIV. 



Characters. Head small, narrow, elongated, snout obtuse; colour above 

 reddish-brown, marked with oblong transverse spots of brick-dust colour, with 

 darker borders; abdomen white, marked with alternate quadrilateral black spots. 

 Abd. sc. 126, caud. sc. 64 pair. 



Synonymes. Coluber guttatus, Lin., Syst. Nat., vol. i. p. 385. 

 Cornsnake, Catesb., Carolina, vol. ii. p. 55, pi. Iv. 

 Coluber guttatus, Gmel., Syst. Nat. Lin., torn. i. p. 1110. 

 La mouchetee, Lac^p., Hist. Nat. des Serp., torn. ii. p. 282. 

 La tachetee, Lacep., Hist. Nat. des Serp., torn. ii. p. 329. 

 Coluber molossus, Daud., Hist. Nat. des Rept, torn. vi. p. 269. 

 Coluber guttatus, Baud., Hist. Nat. des Rept, torn. vi. p. 261. 

 Coluber maculatus, Daud., Hist. Nat. des Rept, torn. vii. p. 217. 

 La couleuvre cannelee, Latr., Hist. Nat. des Rept., torn. iv. p. 110. 

 Coluber carolinianus, Shaw, Gen. Zool., vol. iii. p. 460. 

 Coluber pantherinus, Merrem, Beytrag. ii. s. 49, tab. xxi. 



Natrix pantherinus, Merrem, Versuch. eines Syst der Amph., p. 132, spec. 39. 

 Coluber guttatus, Harl., Med. and Phys. Res., p. 126. 

 Coluber floridanus, Harl., Med. and Phys. Res., p. 124. 

 Coluber maculatus, Harl., Med. and Phys. Res., p. 125. 

 Coluber molossus, Harl., Med. and Phys. Res., p. 126. 

 Cornsnake, Vulgo. 



Description. The head is narrow and elongated, the snout obtuse. The vertical 

 plate is pentagonal, with its largest border forwards. The superior orbital is 



