80 FAMILIAR LIFE IN FIELD AND FOREST. 



twenty -six inclies ; stouter and smaller thsia H. ^la- 

 tyrliinus ; light brown-yellow, with a dorsal series 

 of thirty -five transverse black blotches ; sides with one 

 to three smaller series ; yellowish beneath ; twenty- 

 three to twenty-seven dorsal rows ; a decided pug 

 nose, evidently of great use in burrowing through the 

 soil. Common in the West and South. 



