REVISION OF THE KING SNAKES. 



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tending over tlie side of the larger fork, and down the inner side 

 of the V; distal surface smooth, succeeded proximally by a few 

 slightly fringed calyces; the short fringes rapidly becoming modified 

 into small spines which increase in size basally, and, one-half way 



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FiQ. 13.— Map showing locality records foe Lampropeltis getulus floeidana. 



down the organ, stop abruptly; basal half of organ smooth except 

 for a few scattered minute spines, chiefly near the large ones; no 

 spines distinctly enlarged. 



The skull is essentially like that of getulus, A specimen from 

 Orange Hammock, De Soto County, Florida (U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 



