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LAMPROPELTIS TRIANGULUM GENTILIS (Baird and Girard). 



Fig. 72. 



.1853. OpMboluslgentilis Baird and Girard, Cat. N. Amer. Kept., pt. 1, p. 90 

 (type locality: North Fork, Red River, near Sweetwater Creek, Wheeler 

 County, Texas; type, U. S. Nat. Mus. no. 1853; Capt. Marcy, collector). — 

 Marcy, Ex. Doc. Ho. of Rep., 33d Congress, 1st sess., 1854, p. 200, pi. 

 8.— Baird, Pacif. R. R. Surv., vol. 10, pt. 3, no. 1, 1859, pi. 30, fig. 64.— 

 Coronella gentilis (part ?) Boulenger, Cat. Snakes Brit. Mus., vol. 2, 

 1894, p. 201. 



1860. Lampropeltis doliata (part) Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, p. 

 256 (Kansas). 



1860. Lampropeltis multistriata Kennicott, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 

 p. 328 (type locality, Fort Lookout, South Dakota; type specimen, U. S. 

 Nat. Mus., no. 1842; Lieut. Warren and Dr. Hayden, collectors). 



1875. Ophiholus multistratus Cope, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 1, p. 36; Proc. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus., vol. 14, 1891, p. 611. — Ophiholus multistrata Coues and Yar- 

 row, Bull. U. S. Geol. Geog. Surv. Terr., vol. 4, art. 11, 1878, p. 284.— 

 Cope, Rep. U. S. Nat. Mus. for 1898, 1900, p. 909, fig. 22b.— Lampropeltis 

 multistrata Stejneger, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 14, 1891, p. 502. 



1882. Ophiholus doliatus gentilis (part) Yarrow, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 24, p. 

 90.— Brown, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1901, p. 75.— Bran- 

 son, Kansas Univ. Sci. Bull., vol. 2, no. 13, 1904, p. 402, figs. 25, 25a.— 

 DiTMARs, Reptile Book, 1907, pp. 340, 348, pi. 106 (upper fig.).— Cock- 

 erell, Univ. Colorado Studies, vol. 7, 1910, p. 131 (footnote). — Ellis 

 and Henderson, Univ. Colorado Studies, vol. 10, no. 2, 1913, p. 91, 

 pi. 4, fig. 23. — Osceola doliata gentilis Cope, Rep. U. S. Nat. Mus. for 1898, 

 1900, p. 894. 



1882, Ophiholus doliatus annulatus (part) Yarrow, Bull. U. S. Nus. Mus., no. 24, 



p. 90 (Apache, Arizona). 



1883. Ophiholus triangulus gentilis Garman, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 8, 



no. 3, pt. 1, pp. 66, 155. 

 1893. Ophiholus doliatus sysputus Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, p. 



387 (Hennessy, Oklahoma). 

 1903. Lampropeltis pyrrhomelaena celaenops Stejneger, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 



vol. 25, p. 153 (type locality, Mesilla Valley, New Mexico; type specimen, 



U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 22375; H. B. Lane, collector). — Stejneger and 



Barbour, Check List, 1917, p. 89. 

 1917. Lampropeltis triangulum gentilis Stejneger and Barbour, Check List 



p. 90. — Stejneger, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 31, 1918, p. 99. 



Description. — Forty-six specimens of this form liave been available 

 for study, and from these the following summary of the scutellation 

 has been derived: Ventral plates, 176 to 212; caudals, 31 to 53 

 (males, 41 to 53, average 48; females, 31 to 49, average 45); supra- 

 labials, 7, rarely 8; infralabials, 9, rarely 8 or 10; one preocular; 

 two postoculars, rarely one; temporals usually 2 + 3+4, occasionally 

 one less in any row; posterior chin shields shorter than the anterior or 

 nearly as long, in contact with each other or separated by one or two 

 small scales; loreal distinctly longer than high; scale rows usually 

 21-19, often 21-19-17, on middle of body sometimes 23. 



