88. COEONBLLA. 205 



D. Black, witli j'ellow rings, the red colour appearing on 

 each side as rounded spots. 



a. Yg. (Sc. 21; V. 218; Tehuantepec. 

 C. 47). 



E. Eed above, each scale tipped with black, the rings reduced 

 to mere traces here and there. 



a. Hgr. (Sc. 23 ; V. 218 ; Yucatan. 

 C. 55). 



F. Almost uniform black, with very indistinct traces 

 of the light annuli. 



a. d' (Sc.21; V.226;0.51). Irazu, Costa F. D. Godman, Esq. 



Rica. . [P.], 



14. Coronella doliata. 



Coluber doliatus, Linn. S. N. i. p. 379 (1766) ; llarl. Journ. Ac. 

 Fhilad. v. 1827, p. 362, and Phys. Med. Res. p. 125 (1835). 



doliatus, part., Baud. Rept. vii. p. 74 (1803). 



dumfrisiensis, Sowerhy, Srit. Misc. p. 5, pi. iii. (1804). 



Coronella coccinea, Schleg. Phys. Serp. ii. p. 57 (1837) ; Jan, Arch. 

 Zool. Anat. Phys. ii. 1863, p. 239, and Icon. Oen. 17, pi. i. %. 1 

 (1866) ; Bocourt, Miss. Sc. Mex., Sept. p. 608, pi. xxxix. %. 1 

 (1886). ^ 1 > r 6 



doliata, Solbr. N. Am. Herp. iii. p. 105, pi, xxiv. (1842). 



Calamaria elapsoidea, Holbr. I. c. p. 119, pi. xxviii. 



Osceola elapsoidea, Baird 8f Gir. Cat. N. Am. Rept. p. 133 (1853), 



and Rep. U.S. Surv. R. R. x, pt. iii. pi. xxxiii. fig. 97 (1859) ; 



Cope, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xiv. 1892, p. 606. 

 Lampropeltis coccinea, Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1860, p. 257. 

 Ophibolus doliatus, Qarm. N. Am. Rept. p. 64, pi. v. fig. 2 (1883) • 



H. Oarm. Bull, lllin. Lab. iii. 1892, p. 298. 

 elapsoideus, H. Oarm. I. c. 



Snout much depressed, slightly prominent; rostal once and a 

 half as broad as deep, the portion visible from above measuring 

 about halt its distance from the frontal ; suture between the inter- 

 nasals shorter than that between the prsefrontals ; frontal a little 

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

 a little shorter than the parietals ; loreal usually absent ; one prse- 

 and two postoculars; temporals 1 + 2; seven upper labials, third 

 and fourth entering the eye ; four lower labials in contact with the 

 anterior chin-shields, which are longer than the posterior. Scales 

 in 17 or 19 rows. Ventrals 161-180 ; anal entire ; subeaudals 

 31-54. Head and body scarlet, with pairs of black rings enclosing 

 each a white one ; the first white ring on the nape ; these rings 

 may be interrupted on the ventral surface. 



Total length 230 millim. ; tail 35. 



South-eastern United States. 



a. ? (Sc. 17 ; V. 161 ; C. 42). N. America. E. Doubleday, Esq. [P.]. 



