. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. OSCEOLA DOLIATA GENTILIS Baird and Girard. Ophibolus doliatus gcntilis Cope, Check-list N. Amer. Batr. Kept., 1875, j). 36; Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XI, 1888, p. 383. Ophibolus genlllis Baihd and Girard, Cat. N. Amer. Kept., Pt. 1, Serp., 1853, p. 90; Marcy's Report Expl. Red River, 1853, p. 229, pi. viii. Ground-color dull red, encircled by twenty-five pairs of black rings, the twenty-first opposite the anus, each pair inclosing a third ring
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. OSCEOLA DOLIATA GENTILIS Baird and Girard. Ophibolus doliatus gcntilis Cope, Check-list N. Amer. Batr. Kept., 1875, j). 36; Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XI, 1888, p. 383. Ophibolus genlllis Baihd and Girard, Cat. N. Amer. Kept., Pt. 1, Serp., 1853, p. 90; Marcy's Report Expl. Red River, 1853, p. 229, pi. viii. Ground-color dull red, encircled by twenty-five pairs of black rings, the twenty-first opposite the anus, each pair inclosing a third ring of yellowish white. The black rings are conspicuously broader above, the three crossing eight scales on the vertebral row anteriorly, and toward the anus about five. Anteriorly the intervals between successive pairs consist of about five scales, posteriorly only of two or three, thus diminishing considerably. The black rings contract as they descend, those of each pair reced- ing slightly from each other, so as to cause the yellow j)ortion to expand about one scale. The black rings are contin- uous on the abdomen, those of contiguous pairs (not of the same pair) sometimes with their in- tervening spaces black. The scales in the white rings are always more or less mottled with black, especially along the sides of the body, this mottling being very rarely observ- able on the red x^ortion. The anterior black ring of the first pair is extended so as to cover the whole head above, except the very tip; the yellow ring behind it involves the extreme tip of the occipitals. The black rings extend on the back so that the contiguous rings of adjacent pairs run into each other. There are twenty-eight pairs of rings, the twenty-fifth opposite the anus. The lateral borders of the saddle spots are fused into a single large median black spot on the abdomen, inclosing the extremities of the gastrosteges within the area of the dorsal saddle. The abdomen opposite the yellow interspaces is not sp
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