66 BULLETIN 114, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



LAMPROPELTIS GETULUS BEOOKSI Barbour. 



Fig. 37. 



1919. Lampropeltis getulus broohsi Barbour, Proc. New England Zool. Club, 

 vol. 7, June 5, p. 1 (type locality, 14 miles southwest of Florida City, 

 Dade County, Florida (near the Royal Palm State Park, formerly called 

 Paradise Key); Mus. Comp. Zool., no. 12456; W. S. Brooks and C. A. 

 Mosier, collectors). 



Description. — The original description is as follows: '^An adult, 

 1,350 mm. long. Similar to L. getulus floridana Blanchard, in 

 squamation, but differing widely in coloration. Pattern so reduced 

 as to be almost everywhere undiscernible. Each scale dull chrome 

 yellow with a conspicuous, very dark brown apical spot." 



Remarks. — The name hroolcsi, is based upon a single example taken 

 near Royal Palm State Park, and a badly crushed individual seen in 

 the highway near Homestead, Florida. Southern examples of 

 floridana show a distinct tendency toward the type of coloration of 

 hroolcsi, so that the discovery in tropical Florida by Doctor Barbour 

 of this new race is most gratifying. It carries one step farther, and 

 to its logical conclusion the interesting series of pattern changes of the 

 getulus group in the southeast. It is to be hoped that more examples 

 will soon be found. 



LAMPROPELTIS GETULUS YUMENSIS Blanchard. 



KING SNAKE. 



Fig. 28. 



1861. Lampropeliia hoylii conjuncta Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Philadelphia, 



p. 301. 

 1865. Cornelia getulus splendida Jan, Icon. Gen. Ophid., livr. 12, pi. 6, fig. 1. 

 1901. Ophibolus getulus hoylii (part) Brown, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Philadelphia, 



p. 78 (Yuma). 

 1912. Lampropeltis conjuncta Van Denburgh, Proc. California Acad. Sci., 



ser. 4, vol. 3, p. 154. — Grinnell and Camp, Univ. California Publ. Zool., 



vol. 17, no. 10, 1917, p. 187 — Hall and Grinnell, Proc. California Acad. 



Sci., ser. 4, vol. 9, no. 2, 1919, p. 48. 

 1919. Lampropeltis getulus yumensis Blanchard, Occ. Pap., Mus. Zool. Univ. 



Michigan, no. 70, May 5, p. 6, pi. 1, fig. 2, (type locality, 27 miles west 



of Indian Oasis, Pima County, Arizona; type, U. S. Nat. Mus. no. 61318; 



A. H. Howell, collector). 



Description. — ^The scutellation as indicated by 18 specimens is as 

 follows: Ventral plates, 212 to 240; caudals, 44 to 57 (males, 50 to 

 57, average 54; females, 44 to 51, average 48); supralabials, 7 

 (rarely 8); infralabials, 9, sometimes 10; 1 preocular; 2 postoculars, 

 temporals usually 2 + 3 + 4 ; posterior chin shields but little more than 

 half as long and half as wide as the anterior, and separated from each 

 other by two small scales; loreal longer than high; dorsal scale rows 

 usually 23-21-19, sometimes 23-25-23-21-19 or 21-23-21-19. 



