60. COLUBER. 51 



b-c. S (Sc. 27 ; V. 281 ; Raleigh, N. Carolina. Messrs. Brimley [C.l. 

 C. 88) & hpr. (Sc. 27 ; ^ "' 



V. 236; 0.78). 



B. Dark brown abovp, but with distinct traces of the large spots ; 



beUy largely blotched with blackish. (C. alleghaniensis, Holbr., 

 C. lindheimeri, B. & G.) 



«. c? (Sc. 25; V. 232; Bloomington, Indiana. 0. H. BoUman, Esq. 



0.80). [0.]. 



6. 2 (So. 27 ; V. 233 ; lUinois. Smithsonian Instit. 



0, 77). [P.]. 



C. Pale brown above, with large dark brown spots ; yellowish 



inferiorly. (C spihides, D. & B.) 



a. d (So. 29 ; V. 232 ; New York. 

 0.?). 



b. $ (Sc. 29 ; V. 231 ; Duval Co., Texas. W. Taylor, Esq. [C.]. 

 C. 78). 



D. Spots as in C, combined with stripes as in E ; belly with large 



brown spots. 



a. 2 (Sc. 27 ; V. 241 ; N. America. 

 0. 77). 



E. Pale brown above, with four dark brown or blackish stripes ; 



belly yellowish, without or with a few brown spots. (C. quadri- 

 vittatus, Holbr.) 



a, b. 3 (Sc. 27, 27 ; V. N. America. 

 237, 241 ; 0. 84, 89). 



24. Coluber conspicillatus. 



Coluber conspicillatus, Boie, Isis, 1826, p. 211 ; ScTileg,. Phys. Serp. 



ii. p. 171 (1837), and Faun. Japan., Rept. p. 85, pi. iii. (1838; ; 



Gunth. Cat. p. 91 (1858). 

 Elaphis conspicillatus, Dum. Sr Bibr. vii. p. 285 (1854) ; Silgendorf, 



Sitzb. ges. Naturf. Freunde, 1880, p. 114. 

 Coronella conspicillata, Jan, Arch, Zool, Anat. Phys. ii. 1863, p. 249, 



and Icon. Gin. 14, pi. vi. fig. 1 (1865). 

 CaUopeltis conspicillatus, Giglioli, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1887, p. 595. 



Rostral nearly twice as broad as deep, visible from above ; inter- 

 nasals much broader than long, shorter than the preefrontals ; 

 frontal a little longer than broad, as long as its distance from the 

 end of the snout, shorter than the parietals; loreal longer than 

 deep; one prae- and two postoculars; temporals 1+2 or 2 + 2; 

 seven upper labials, third and fourth entering the eye ; four lower 

 labials in contact with the anterior chin-shields, which are a little 

 longer than the posterior. Scales smooth, or faintly keeled on the 

 posterior part of the body, in 21 rows. Ventrals distinctly angu- 

 late laterally, 200-224; anal divided; subcaudals 60-76. Pale 



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