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EUTAINIA FAIREYI, B. & G. 
Plate XIII, adult; XYI, young. 
Eutainia faireyi, B. & G. Cat. N. A. Serpents, p. 25. 
Sp. Ch.—B ody above deep uniform glossy black. A dorsal stripe of yellowish, green one and less than two half scales 
wide ; and one lateral stripe on each side on the third and fourth rows, usually of the same color. Sometimes the dorsal 
stripe is more deeply yellow than the lateral. Dorsal scales below the lateral stripe as black as above it. Abdomen greenish 
white. Form a little stouter than E. saurita. Head large. Tail rather less than one-third of the total length. Dorsal 
scales in nineteen rows.— Kennicott. 
Illinois. 
EUTAINIA RADIX, B. & G. 
E. radix, B. & G. Cat. N. A. Serpents, p. 34. 
Sp. Ch. —Body stout, compact, and cylindrical; tail short. Head short, narrow; nose pointed. Ground color above very 
dark olive brown, sometimes black, with three sharply defined, rather narrow, yellow longitudinal stripes, and six series of 
very indistinct black blotches, which are not visible in the darker specimens. Dorsal rows, 21. Lateral stripe on the third 
and fourth rows.— Kennicott. 
Fort Snelling, Minn.—S. 
RETINA KIRTLANDII, Kennicott. 
Plate XX, Fig. 2. 
Regina lirtlandii, Kennicott, Proc. Phil. Acad. Nat. Sci. 185. 
Sp. Cii.—B ody stouter than in any other species of Begina or Nerodia; head smaller and tail shorter. Head depressed, 
very small, short, proportionately broad behind, continuous with the body, the neck being without any visible contraction. 
Crown very convex, sloping to the snout. A single nasal, with the nostril in its centre. One large ante-orbital, two large 
post-orbitals. Vertical, broad, sub-hexagonal. The body enlarges rapidly from the head to its full size, continuing of about 
the same size to near (he anus, where it contracts suddenly ; the tail being very small. Ground color light reddish brown, 
with four dorsal series of circular black spots, the two central series smallest. Abdomen uniform reddish, with a row of 
small black spots on each side. Dorsal rows 19, all strongly carinated.— Kennicott. 
Illinois. 
REGINA GRAHAMII, Baird&Girard. 
The Prairie Water Snake. 
Plate XIX, Fig. 1. 
Regina grahamii, B. & G. Catal. N. Amer. Serpents, 1853, p. 47. 
S P . Ch _Dull daik brown, with a dorsal light brown line, margined on each side by a narrow indistinct black line. A 
broad yellowish stripe on the first, second, and third rows, margined above by an indistinct black line on the fourth 
and fifth rows, and below by a distinct narrow black line on the lower fourth of the first lateral row and extreme end 
of the abdominal scutellae. Abdomen yellowish, tinged posteriorly in the adult with olive, with a single central row of 
small subtriangular black spots posteriorly, which disappear on the anterior third of the body, and are sometimes obsolete in 
young specimens. Dorsal rows of scales, 19.— Kennicott. 
Illinois. 
SCOTOPHIS YULPINUS, Baird&Girard. 
The Fox Snake. 
Plate XXII. 
Scolophis mdpinus, B. & G. Catal. N. Am. Serpents, 1853, p. 75. 
Sp. Cii.— Body stoutest of the genus ; tail thick. Head large, very stout, broad, and rounded throughout. Snout short, 
broad ; vertical plate as broad as long ; supcrciliaries broad ; loral elevated as high as long. Eye smallest of the genus. 
