. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. 744 REPORT OF NATIONAL MTJSEUM, 1898. DIADOPHIS REGALIS Baird and Girard. Diadophis regalis Baird aud Girard, Cat. N. Amer. Rept., Pt. 1, Serp., 1853, p. 115; U. Mexican Bound. Surv., II, 1859, p. 22, pi. xix, fig. 2.—Cope, Check-list N. A. Batr. Rept., 1875, p. 38. Coronella regalis Boulenger, Cat. Snakes Brit. Mus., II, 1894, p. 208. Body above nuiform greeuisli ash to blackish browu; beneath light yellow, scattered all over with sm
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. 744 REPORT OF NATIONAL MTJSEUM, 1898. DIADOPHIS REGALIS Baird and Girard. Diadophis regalis Baird aud Girard, Cat. N. Amer. Rept., Pt. 1, Serp., 1853, p. 115; U. Mexican Bound. Surv., II, 1859, p. 22, pi. xix, fig. 2.—Cope, Check-list N. A. Batr. Rept., 1875, p. 38. Coronella regalis Boulenger, Cat. Snakes Brit. Mus., II, 1894, p. 208. Body above nuiform greeuisli ash to blackish browu; beneath light yellow, scattered all over with small black spots. Dorsal scales in 17 rows. Superior labials, 7; temporals, l-'-l; oculars, 2-2. Head proportionately short aud broad behind; flattened above; snout rounded. Eyes very small. Frontal plate subpeutagonal, taper- ing i)osteriorly. Superciliaries narrower anteriorly. Body long and subcylindrical. Scales proportionally large and elongated, in 17 rows; those of the outer row conspicuously broader. The upper aud lower jaws and inferior surface of head spotted with black, on a light ground. Color of the abdomen extending to the outer row of scales, which are dotted with blat^k posteriorly. The black spots on the abdomen extend considerably beyond the anus. Two distinct color forms are represented in this species, as follows: Upper surfaces bluish ashen; color of belly on first row of scales D. r. regalia. Upper surfaces to gastrosteges brownish black D. r. arnyi. Of fourteen specimens of the Biadophis regalis examined, all have seven superior labials but two, which have eight. DIADOPHIS REGALIS REGALIS Baird and Girard. Diadophis punctatus regalis Cope, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 32, 1887, p. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents; United Stat
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