/poj] Brimxey — Notes on Scuteixation. 147 



10 has both red and and while rings more or less interupted 

 on the belly by black. 



13 has the adjacent black rings uniting on the belly, en- 

 closing the red dorsal spots. 



20 has the white rings mainly interrupted more or less on 

 the belly by black blotches, while the red rings are uninter- 

 rupted. 



21 is typical coccineus, in color, but has the loreal reduced 

 on one side to a small triangular plate at the junction of the 

 prefontal, nasal, and 1st and 2nd upper labials. 



22 is neariy typical cocineus, but has black spots on the belly 

 opposite the white rings. Several of the head plates peculiar. 

 The loreal is absent on one side and represented on the 

 other by a triangular plate cut off front of prefontal and ex- 

 tending to the labials. 



23 has red spots closed by a partially divided black tract on 

 middle line of belly. Black spots on belly opposite the white 

 rings are present on latter half of belly only. Sixth upper la- 

 cial on each side reaches to the parietals and suppresses the 

 temporals. 



Summary. The Mississippi specimens all have 19 rows of 

 scales, except two not examined for that point, twelve of them 

 have the loreal present on both sides of the head, and two of 

 them have it absent on both sides: eleven have one temporal 

 in the front row on both sides, one has two temporals on both 

 sides, one has one temporal on one side and two on the other, 

 and the last has two temporals on one side and the scutella- 

 tion could not be made out on the other. 



Of the Raleigh specimens four have 19 rows of scales, 

 and two have 21, while a seventh was not examined for that 

 point. Two have a loreal on both sides, three have the loreal 

 absent on both sides, while of the remaining two, one has 

 loreal present on one side and represented by an abnormal 

 plate on the other, and the other has loreal absent on one 

 side and represented by an abnormal plate on the other. As 

 to the temporals two specimens have one in first row on each side 



