. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. CROCODILIANS, LIZARDS, AND SNAKES. 751 DIADOPHIS PUNCTATUS Linnaeus. DiadopMs punctatus Baird and Girard, Cat. N. Amer. Rept., 1853, p. 112.—Copk, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1860, p. 250.—Jax, Arcli. Zool. Anat. Phys., II, 1863, p. 263; Icon. Gen., 1866, p. 15, pi. vi, fig. 1.—Garman, N. Amer. Rept., 1883, p. 72, pi. II, fig. 2.—BocouRT, Miss. Sci. Mex., Rept., 1886, p. 618, pi. XL, fig. 1.—Cope, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XIV, 1892, p. 617.
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. CROCODILIANS, LIZARDS, AND SNAKES. 751 DIADOPHIS PUNCTATUS Linnaeus. DiadopMs punctatus Baird and Girard, Cat. N. Amer. Rept., 1853, p. 112.—Copk, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1860, p. 250.—Jax, Arcli. Zool. Anat. Phys., II, 1863, p. 263; Icon. Gen., 1866, p. 15, pi. vi, fig. 1.—Garman, N. Amer. Rept., 1883, p. 72, pi. II, fig. 2.—BocouRT, Miss. Sci. Mex., Rept., 1886, p. 618, pi. XL, fig. 1.—Cope, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XIV, 1892, p. 617.—H. Garman, Bull. 111. Lab., Ill, 1892, p. 300. Coluber puncta1ns , Syst. Nat., I, 1766, p. 376.—Daudin, Rept., VII, 1803, p. 178.—Harlan, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., V, 1827, p. 354; Med. Phys. Res., 1835, p. 117.—Storer, Rep. Fish and Rept. Mass., 1839, p. 225.— HOLBROOK, N. Amer. Herp., Ill, 1842, p. 81, pi. xvih.—DeKay, N. Y. Fauna, III, 1842, p. 39, pi. xiv, fig. 29. Coluler iorquatus^, Zool., Ill, 1802, p. 553. Cal am aria punctata Schlegel, Phys. Serp., II, 1837, \>. 39. Ablahes punctatus Dumeril and Bibron, Erp. G^n., VII, 1854, p. 310.—GHnthkr, Cat. Snakes Brit. Mus., 1858, p. 28. Ablabes occipitalis Gunther, Cat. Snakes Brit. Mus., p. 29. Diadophis occipitalis Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1850, p. 250. DiadopMs punctatus, Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1850, i>. 250.— BocouRT, Miss. Sci. Mex., Rept., p. 621. DiadopMs dysopes Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1850, p. 251. Coronella punctata Boulenger, Cat. Snakes Brit. Mus., II, 1894, p. 206. A yellowish white occipital ring. Body bluish black above; yellow- ish orange beneath, with a medial series of spots, sometimes absent. Tail beneath unicolor. Dorsal scales in fifteen rows; superior labials eight; temporals 1—1. Head very much depressed, flattened above; snout rounded and overlapping the lower jaw. Frontal plate subpentagonal, tapering ba
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