REVISION- OF THE KING SITAKES. 76 



LAMPROPELTIS GETULUS BOYLII (Baird and Glrard). 

 MILK snake; BOYLE'S KING SNAKE; BLACK AND WHITE KINO SNAKE. 



Fig. 27. 



1863. Ophiholus hoylii Baibd and Gibahd, Cat. N. Amer, Rept., pt. 1, Jan., 

 p. 82 (type locality, El Dorado County, California; type, U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 no. 1698; Dr. C. C. Boyle, collector).— Baird, U. S. and Mex. Bound. 

 Surv., 1859, p. 20; Pacif. R. R. Surv., vol. 10, pt. 3, no. 1, 1859, pi. 30, 

 fig. 57; same, vol. 10 (Williamson's Route), pt. 4, no. 4, 1859, p. 11. — 

 Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1866, p. ZO^.—Lampropeltit 

 hoylii, game, 1860, p. 255.— Coopeb, Proc. California Acad. Sci., vol. 4, 

 1873, p. 79.— Stejneger, N. Amer. Fauna, no. 7, pt. 2, 1893, p. 204.— 

 Van Denburgh, Proc. California Acad. Sci., aer. 2, vol. 5, 1895, p. 

 1006; Proc. California Acad. Sci., eer. 2, vol. 5, pt. 3, 1896, p. 1006; 

 Occ. Papers California Acad. Sci., vol. 5, 1897, p. 169.— McLain, 

 Coll. Rept. W. Coast U. S., 1899, p. 11.— Meek, Field Columb. Mus. Publ., 

 no. 104, vol. 7, no. 1, 1906, p. 15. — Grinnell and Grinnell, Throop Inst. 

 Bull., no. 35, 1907, p. 41.— Grinnell, Univ. California Publ. ZooL, vol. 5, 

 no. 1, 1908, p. 165.— Van Denburgh, Proc. California Acad. Sci., ser. 4, 

 vol. 3, 1912, p. 150.— Van Denburgh and Slevin, Proc. California 

 Acad. Sci., ser. 4, vol. 3, 1913, p. 415.— Camp, Univ. California Publ. 

 Zool., vol. 12, no. 17, 1916, p. 531.— Pemberton, Condor, 1916, p. 233.— 

 Grinnell and Camp, Univ. California Publ. Zool., vol. 17, no. 10, 1917, 

 p. 186.— Bentley, Copeia, no. 75, 1919, p. QO.—Coronella hoylii Jan, 

 Arch. Zool. Anat., vol. 2, fasc. 2, 1863, pp. 238, 246. 



1853. CoTonella halteata Hallowell, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 6, 

 p. 236 (type locality: California); Pacif. R. R. Surv., vol. 10, pt. 4, no. 1, 

 1859, pp. 14, 24, pi. 5. 



1863. Coronella pseudogetulus Jan, Arch. Zool. Anat., vol. 2, fasc. 2, pp. 238, 247. 

 . 1865. Coronella getulus pseudogetulus Jan, Icon. Gen. Ophid., livr. 12, pi. 6, 

 fig. 2 (a-g). 



1875. Ophiholus getulus hoylii Cope, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 1, p. 37.— Yarrow, 

 Rep. Geog. and Geol. Explor. Surv. W. 100th Mer., vol. 5, chap. 4, 1875, 

 p. 538.— Coues, same, chap. 5, 1875, p. 618.— Coues and Yarrow, 

 Bull. U. S. Geol. and Geog. Surv. Terr., vol. 4, art. 11, 1878, p. 283.— 

 Yarrow, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 24, 1882, p. 92.— Cope, Proc. Acad. 

 Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1883, p. 29.— Garman, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., 

 vol. 7, no. 3, pt. 1, 1883, pp. 69, 157.— Townsend, Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., vol. 10, 1887, p. 239.— Cope, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 14, 1891, 

 p. 613; Rep. U. S. Nat. Mus. for 1898, 1900, p. 919, fig. 230.— Brown, Proc. 

 Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1901, p. 78.— Ditmars, Reptile Book, 1907, 

 pp. 341, 363, pi. 103, fig. 9, pi. 1,08 (lower fig.); Rept. of World, 1910, 

 p. 271. 



1894. Coronella getula (part) Boulenger, Cat. Snakes Brit. Mus., vol. 2, p. 198. 



1913. Lampropeltis hoylei Atsatt, Univ. California Publ. Zool. , vol. 12, no. 3, p. 41. 



1917. Lampropeltis hoylii hoylii Stejneger and Barbour, Check List, p. 87. 



Description. — Tlie scutellation of the Pacific Coast representative 

 of the getulus group may be defined as follows: Ventral plates, 206 to 

 254; caudals, 41 to 62; supralabials, 7, infrequently 8; infralabials 9, 

 often 10; oculars, 1 and 2; temporals, 2 4-3 + 4; posterior chin shields 

 only about two-thirds as long as the anterior, parallel, and separated 

 186550— 21— Bull. 114 6 



