. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. :1. Connecticut. Cat. No. 7224, CROCODILIANS, LIZARDS, AND SNAKES. 1021 third the total leugth. Uead quite distinct from body, elongate, flat. Orbitisl plates, 1-3; temporals, 1-2; superior labials seven, those beneath the orbit longer than high. Scales in nineteen rows, very narrow, strongly keeled, and notched at the apex, those of the inferior row diftering only Irom the others in being a little deeper at the base. Color about l
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. :1. Connecticut. Cat. No. 7224, CROCODILIANS, LIZARDS, AND SNAKES. 1021 third the total leugth. Uead quite distinct from body, elongate, flat. Orbitisl plates, 1-3; temporals, 1-2; superior labials seven, those beneath the orbit longer than high. Scales in nineteen rows, very narrow, strongly keeled, and notched at the apex, those of the inferior row diftering only Irom the others in being a little deeper at the base. Color about liglit chocolate. Three stripes of uniform yellow. Below the lateral stripes, liglit brown. Abdomen greenish white. A broad vertebral line of sulphur yellow, occui^ying one and two half rows of scales, the line margined for half a scale on each side with black. A lateral stripe on each side along the third and fourth rows of lateral scales; the scales in the exterior edges of this stripe occasionally speckled or margined with black. Skin be tween the scales black, with numerous small yellow lines, half a scale rig- 276. long, seen only in dilating egt^ia saubita linn^kus. the skin. In some spe- cies the black shows as a series of lateral spots. The usual double spot on the line of union of the occipitUls. Orbital plates yellowish white, as are the lower part and sides of the head and throat. In a specimen from Westport, Xew York, there is a well-detined black line under the lateral stripe. In cue from Londongrove, Pennsylvania, two rows of quadrate spots are visible on the anterior part of the body as in E. sirtalis. Spots are not visible in any other specimen. The scuta, scutelhe, and lengths of body and tail in inches are given in three specimens by Baird and Girard, as follows: Cat. Nos. Locality. Gastrostegcs. Urosteges. Length. Tail. 782. Carlisle, Pennsylvania 156. 115. 35. 12^. Do 157, 118. 26i. 9. ? Washington, District of Columbia 157. 118. 32i. 9. The lengths of the ta
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