680 The American Naturalist. [July, 
No. 15,1385; 201; 1-1; ? ; 815 mm.; tail injured. 
No. 15,136 ; 205; 1-1; 108; 665 mm.; 258 mm. 
Color above blackish-brown anteriorly, becoming lighter posteriorly 
to the end of the tail. The dark color extends on each end of the 
gastrosteges to the angulation throughout the length, and in the younger 
specimen, appears as a row of spots on each side of the middle part of 
tne gastrosteges, fading out beyond the middle of the length. Ground 
color of belly yellow. In the larger specimen the black-brown predom- 
inates on the inferior surfaces, yielding gradually to the ground color, 
which predominates on the inferior surface of the tail. A yellow spot 
on the preocular; and in the younger specimen on the postoculars and 
labial plates. Gular and genial plates yellow spotted in the younger 
specimen, nearly uniform dark brown in the older. On the anterior 
part of the body of the younger specimen the lateral scales to the third 
and fourth row have brown shades, with an obscure trace of cross- 
banding. On the same specimen near the middle of the body, there 
are two pale half-cross-bands near together. In the same, the center 
of each parietal plate is brown. 
This subspecies differs widely from the typical form in color char- 
acters. 
I add here that specimen which strongly resembles this form was 
sent to the Philadelphia Zoological Garden from Southern Arizona. 
The belly is light red. 
Catal. no. | No. specimens Locality | Whence obtained _ 
15,135 1 oe nde eet? | § U, S, Fish Commis- 
15,136 1 gana O sion Albatross 
California 
—E. D. COPE. 
Zoological News, VERMES.—Distomes. Dr. H. B. Ward has 
recently published several papers on these parasites to which attention 
should be called, since they appear in places where one does not usu- 
ally look for zoological articles. In the first’ he records a second 
American example of the fluke, Distomum westermannii, this time from 
the lungs of a dog, the material being furnished by Prof. D. 5. Keli- 
cott, and being that upon which the latter author had already re- 
ported.” The second of these papers’? reviews the literature of this 
' Veterinary Magazine, Vol. II, p. 87, 1895. 
*Trans. Ohio State Medical Society, 1894. 
3 Medical News, Mar. 2, 1895. 
