. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. CROCODJLIANS, LIZARDS, AND SNAKES. 837 This subspecies inhabits the entire peninsula of Florida, along with the typical one, which displays its full characters in the same region. The C. (J. sellatus is evidently annectent to the C. rosacens of southern Florida. Colither (/uttatua sellatus (Jope. Catalogue No. Number of speci- mens. Locality. From whom received. Nature of specimen. 9692 1 1 1 6507 Palatka Florida do 14836 Cape Sable, Florid
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. CROCODJLIANS, LIZARDS, AND SNAKES. 837 This subspecies inhabits the entire peninsula of Florida, along with the typical one, which displays its full characters in the same region. The C. (J. sellatus is evidently annectent to the C. rosacens of southern Florida. Colither (/uttatua sellatus (Jope. Catalogue No. Number of speci- mens. Locality. From whom received. Nature of specimen. 9692 1 1 1 6507 Palatka Florida do 14836 Cape Sable, Florida do. COLUBER ROSACEUS Cope. Coluber rosaveus Cope, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XI, 1888, p. 388, pi. xxx\ i, lig. :>. Voluher Iwius? Boulengkr, Cat. Snakes Brit. Mus., II, 1894, p. 49, Head oval, distinct from body. Rostral plate visible from above; internasals much shorter than prefrontals. Frontal wider than in. Fig. 191. ('OLUBER EOSACEUS C'OPB. = 1. Key West, Florida. Cat. No. 14418, allied species, as broad as it is long, with straight anterior border. Parietals longer than muzzle from frontal plate. Loreal longer than high; preocular not reaching frontal, but separated by the very nar- row anterior extremity of the superciliary. Temporals 2-3-4, the pos- terior small. Scales of body smooth, rather wide, the first row a little wider than the second. Postgeneials smaller than pregeneials, but distinct from gular scales. Gastrosteges bent up at the sides. Tail probably long as in G. quadrivittatus^ but the end is lost. The uros- teges remaining number 47. The ground color of the superior surfaces, in the rather fresh alco- holic specimen, is buff, each scale with a dusky band within and parallel to the border, surrounding a buff' center. This band may be broken up into spots. The greater part of the superior surfaces is occupied by a series of vermilion-tinted pink spots, which extend across the back to within two or three scales of the gastrosteges, thus. Please not
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