88. CORONBLIA. 197 



the head, separated by narrow pale lines and followed by one or 

 more black bands across the nape ; lips and gular region yellowish ; 

 lower parts whitish, the borders of the shields blackish. 

 West Africa. 



«. Yg. (V. 187; C. 58). W. Africa. Sir J. Richardson [P.]. 



(Type of Coryphodon margaritiferus.) 



7. Coronella getula. 



Coluber getulus, Linn. S. JST. i. p. 382 (1766) ; Catesbt/, Nat. Sist. 

 Carol, pi. lii. (1771) ; Baud. Mept. yi. p. 314, pi. Ixxvii. flg. 1 

 (1803) ; Harl. Journ. Ac. Philad. v. 1827, p. 358, and Med. Phys. 

 Res. p. 122 (1835) ; DeKay, N. Y. Faun. lii. p. 37, pi. x. fig. 21 

 (1842) ; a&nth. Cat. p. 249 (1858). 

 ? Coluber eximius, Harl. II. cc. p. 360. 

 Coluber (Ophis) californise, Blainv. N. Ann. Mus. iv. 1835, p. 292, 



pi. xxvii. fig. 1. 

 Herpetodryas getulus, Schleg. Phys. 8erp. ii. p. 198 (1837). 

 Coronella getulus, Holbr. N. Am. Herp. iii. p. 95, pi. xxi. ^1842) ; 

 Dum. ^ Bibr. vii. p. 616 (1854) ; Jan, Arch. Zool. Anat. Phys. ii. 

 1863, p. 244, and Icon. Gin. 12, pi. Vi. & 14, pi. t. (1865). 



sayi, Holbr. I. c. p. 99, pi. xxii. ; Bum. Sr Bibr. p. 619 ; Giinth. 



Cat. p. 41 ; Jan, II. cc. 

 Opbibolus boylii, Baird ^ Oir. Cat. -N. Am. Rept. p. 82 (1853). 



splendidus, Baird Hf Gir. I. o. p. 83. 



sayi, Baird ^ Gir. I. c. p. 84, and in Marcy's Explor. Bed Biv. 



p. 228, pi. vii. (1853). 



getulus, Baird &■ Gir. I. c. p. 85 ; Cope, Check-list N. A?n. 



Mept. p. 37 (1875) ; Garm. N. Am. Bept. p. 68, pi. v. figs. 3 & 4 

 (1883) ; Cope, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xiv. 1892, p. 611 ; H. Garm. 

 Bull. Illin. Lab. iii. 1892, p. 297 ; Hay, Batr. 8f Bept. Indiana, 

 p. 110 (1893). 

 Coronella balteata, Hallow. Proc. Ac. Philad. 1853, p. 226, and Bap. 

 Explnr. Surv. B. B. x. pt. 4, pi. v. (1857). 



californise, Bum. S/- Bibr. p. 623. 



Lampropeltia sayi, Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1860, p. 2<)4 



splendida, Cope, I. c. p. 255. 



getula. Cope, I. c. 



boylii. Cope, I. c. 



boylii; var. conjuncta. Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1861, p. 301. 



Coronella pseudogetiilus, Jan, ll.cc.y. 247, Icon. 12, pi. yi. fig. 2. 

 Opbibolus californise. Cope, Chech-list, p. 37. 



getulus niger, eiseni, multicinctus. Yarrow, Proc. U.S. Nat. 



Mus. V. 1882, p. 488. 

 Snont slightly prominent ; rostral about once and a haK as broad 

 as deep, the portion visible from above measuring about one third 

 its distance from the frontal ; suture between the internasals about 

 half as long as that between the praefrontals ; frontal considerably 

 longer than broad, as long as its distance from the end of the snout, 

 shorter than the parietals ; loreal as long as deep, or deeper than 

 long, or longer than deep, sometimes absent; one prse- and two 

 (rarely three) postoculars; temporals 2+2 or 2+3; seven upper 

 labials, third and fourth entering the eye; four lower labials in 

 contact with the anterior chin-shields, which are as long as or 



