. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. 782 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1898. LIOPELTIS VERNALIS DeKay. Liopeltis vernalis Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1860, p. 560. Coluber vernalis DeKay, manuscript, Harlan, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., V, 1827, p. 361; Med. Phys. Res., 1835, p. 124.—Stoker, Rept. Mass., 1839, p. 224.— HoLBROOK, N. Amer. Herpt., Ill, 1842, p. 79, pi. xvii.—DeKay, New York FaunaRept., 1842, p. 49, pi. xi, fig. 22.—Thompson, Hist. Vermont, 1842, p. 117. C
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. 782 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1898. LIOPELTIS VERNALIS DeKay. Liopeltis vernalis Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1860, p. 560. Coluber vernalis DeKay, manuscript, Harlan, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., V, 1827, p. 361; Med. Phys. Res., 1835, p. 124.—Stoker, Rept. Mass., 1839, p. 224.— HoLBROOK, N. Amer. Herpt., Ill, 1842, p. 79, pi. xvii.—DeKay, New York FaunaRept., 1842, p. 49, pi. xi, fig. 22.—Thompson, Hist. Vermont, 1842, p. 117. Chlorosovm vernalis Baird and Girard, Cat. N. Amer. Rept., Pt. 1,1853, p. 108. Herpetodryas vernalis Hallo well, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pliila., 1856, p. 243. Cyclophis vernalis Gunther, Cat. Colubr. Snakes Brit. Mus., 1858, p. 119. Contia vernalis Boulenger, Cat. Snakes Brit. Mns., II, 1894, p. 258. Head proportionally long, ovoidal, slightly swollen on the temporal region. Snout rounded and projecting considerably over the lower jaw. The rostral plate shows but little from above. Outlines of pre- frontals rounded, internasals proportionally large, and more than half the size of the prefrontals. Frontal hexagonal, elongated, posteriorly more tapering than anteriorly; sides slightly concave. Parietals large, subangular. Superciliaries quite inr^e, broader posteriorly than ante- riorly. Postorbitals two, subquadrangular; lower one resting on the. Fig. 169. Liopeltis vernalis DeKay. = 1. Eastern "Wisconsin. 1493. commissure of the fourth and fifth upper labials. Anteorbital angular above, rounded below, with anterior margin convex. Loreal angular, louger than high, and proportionally well developed. Nasal elliptically elongated, with nostril in the middle. Three temporal shields, well developed; anterior one elongated, largest. Cleft of mouth curved or undulated. Upper labials seven; fourth largest; fifth and sixth nearly e(iual to the fourth; third an
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