678 REPTILES—COLUBRIDZ. 
j. Post-abdominai scutella bifid; dorsal rows of scales not exceed 21. &. 
k. With a yellow ring round the neck. Silo é : .  DYADOPHIS. 
k. Without cervical ring. 1. : 
l. Dorsal scales in 15 rows. ; i 5 : - . .  LIOPELTIS. 
1. Dorsal scales in 17 or more rows. ; ; ; ; .  BASCANIUM, 
m. Dorsal scalesin 19 rows. 1. 
m. Dorsal rows of scales not exceeding 17. 0. 
m. Prefrontals one. : : : : t ‘ ‘ ‘ ; FARANCIA, 
mn. Prefrontals two. 4 : ‘ " : ‘ ; ; ; ABASTOR. 
0. Postorbitals two; dorsal scales in 15 or 17 rows. ; 5 . VIRGINIA. 
0. Postorbitals one; dorsal scales in 13 rows. 5 ; 3 CARPHOPHIS. 
GENUS HUTANIA. Baird and Girard. 
Body varying from long and slender to strong and moderately thick; cephalic plates 
normal; anteorbitals one; postorbitals usually three; loral present ; nasals two; pre- 
frontale two; labials and inframaxillaries moderately large; dorsal scales strongly 
carinated, in19-2lrows; gastrosteges, 140-170; post-abdominal scutella entire; urosteges, 
50-120, all bifid; ground color dark, with a vertebral and two lateral stripes; habits 
terrestrial ; species ovoviviparous. 
Lateral stripe on the third and fourth rows of scales; body slender; tail nearly one- 
third of totallength. a. 
Lateral stripe on second and third rows of scales; body stouter; tail one-fourth of 
total length. : ; : : : 5 6 ‘ : ; ‘ EH. SIRTALIS, 
a. Urosteges less than 110. : : : ° ; ; . : EK. PROXIMA., 
a, Urosteges 115 or more. ° a ° 0 : : 5 : K. SAURITA. 
HULENIA PROXIMA Say. 
Say’s Garter Snake. 
Coluber proximus, SAY, HARLAN, 
Tropidonoius proximus, Bore. 
Eutenia proxima, BAIRD and GIRARD, COPE, JORDAN. 
General color above black; vertebral band varying from yellow to brown; lateral 
 gtripes green or yellowish to white ; occipital plates with a yellow spot about the cen- 
ter of the commissural line ; abdomen and under parts varying from dingy white to oliva- 
ceous or green ; vertical plate elongated, pentagonal, the posterior sides much the shorter, 
the lateral edges longest and arcuate to receive the projecting part of superciliaries ; nasals 
two ; rostral broad, but not very high ; upper labials eight, lower nine or ten; temporal 
regien covered with large plates; inframaxillaries reaching to the eighth lower labial; . 
loral rhomboidai ; eye over the fourth and fifth upper labial ; dorsal rows of scales nine- 
teen, all carinated ; vertebral band covering one and two half rows of scales; lateral 
stripes on the third and fourth rows from the abdomen ; color below the lateral stripes 
somewhat lighter than above; body stouter than Lutenia sauriia ; tail about two sevenths 
the total length; gastrosteges, 170-180; urosteges, 80-85. Length, 2% feet; head, 1 
inch; tail, 9 inches; transverse diameter of head 74 lines’; of neck 54 lines; circumfer- 
ence of body 24 inches. j 
Habitat, ‘‘ California,” Montana, and Arkansas, to Wisconsin, Ohio, North Carolina, 
Louisiana, Texas, and Mexico. 
Rare in the State. 
