198 coLUBEiDa;. 



longer than the posterior. Scales in 21 or 23 (rarely 19) rows. 

 Ventrals 198-240 ; anal entire ; subcaudals 41-65. Dark brown 

 or black above, with yellow or white markings ; labials and lov^■er 

 parts black and white or black and yellow. 



Total length 1780 millim. ; taU 200. 



North America. 



A. Above with small yellow spots or narrow yellow transverse 

 bands restricted to the back. (C. sayi.) 



a. c? (Sc. 19 ; V. 209 ; C. 39). Indiana. 



b. 6 (Sc. 21 ; V. 211 ; 0. 46). Arkansas. 



c. 2 (Sc. 21 ; V. 216 ; C. 45). Louisiana. 



d. e-f. S (Sc. 21 ; V. 207 ; C. 49) New Orleans. M. Sall^ [0.1. 

 & yg. (Sc. 21, 21 ; V. 201, 198 ; 



0. 60, 53). 

 jr. c? (Sc. 23; V.218; C. 53). Duval Oounty, W. Taylor, Esq. 



Texas. [0.1. 



h, i. d (Sc. 21 ; V. 209; 0. 54) Texas. 



& ? (Sc. 21 ; V. 206 ; 0. 50). 

 />■. Skull. New Orleans. 



B. Above with yellow transverse bands connected with their 

 fellows on the sides. (C getula.) 



a. Hgr. (Sc. 21 ; V. 210 ; 0. 39). District of Columbia. Smithsonian Inst. 

 h-d. cj (Sc. 23 ; V. 216 ; 0. 52), Marion Oo.,Florida. A. Erwin Brown, 



$ (So. 23; V. 218; 0. ?), & Esq. [P.]. 



hgr. (Sc. 23; V. 214; 0.47). 

 e,f. c? (So. 21 ; V. 217 ; 0. 50) N. America. 



&yg. (Sc.21; V.211;C. 50). 



C. More or less complete whitish annuli round the body, 

 widening on the beEy. (C calif ornim, O. hoylii.) 



a. 3 (Sc. 23 ; V. 225; 0. 56). Oamp Taylor, Prof 0. Eigen- 



Marion Oo., Oal. mann [0.1. 



b~d. S (Sc. 23 ; V. 228 ; 0. 46), San Diego, Cali- Ohristiania Mus. 



$ (So. 28 ; V. 285; 0. 54), & fornia. 



yg. (Sc. 23; V. 226 ; 0.54). 



e. Yg. (So. 23; V. 228; 0. 54). Oalifornia. Smithsonian Inst. 

 /. Yg. (Sc. 21; V. 218; 0. 55). Oahfornia. Lord Walsing- 



ham [P.]. 



8. Coronella calligaster. 



Ooluher caUigaster, Harlan, Joum. Ac. PMlad. v. 1827, p. 359, and 



Med. Phys. lies. p. 122 (1835). 



guttatus (non L.), Schleg. Phys. Serp. ii. p. 168 (1837). 



Ooronella rhombomaculata, Holbr. N. Am. Serp. iii. p. 103, pi. xxiii. 



(1842) ; Jan, Arch. Zool. Anat. Phys. ii. 1863, p. 243, and Icon. 



Gen. 17, pi. ii. figs. 1 & 2 (1806). 

 Ophibolus rhombomaculatus, Baird &• Gir. Cat. N. Am. Rent v 86 



(1853). ^ 



Ablabes triangulum, var. caUigaster, Sallow. Proc. Ac. Philad. 1856, 



p. 244. 



