. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. CROCODILIANS, LIZAKDB, AND SNAKES. 909 OPHIBOLUS MULTISTRATUS Ophibolus mitltktratus Coi>E, Check-list N. Amer. Batr. Kept., 1875, p. 37. Lampropeltia multistrata Kennicott, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 18B0, p. 328. Dorsal scales in tweuty-three rows. Form similar to that of (hrt'ohi gentilis, but the head and eye larger. Color above browuish red, with thirty-one pairs of narrow black half rings inclosing white spaces from
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. CROCODILIANS, LIZAKDB, AND SNAKES. 909 OPHIBOLUS MULTISTRATUS Ophibolus mitltktratus Coi>E, Check-list N. Amer. Batr. Kept., 1875, p. 37. Lampropeltia multistrata Kennicott, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 18B0, p. 328. Dorsal scales in tweuty-three rows. Form similar to that of (hrt'ohi gentilis, but the head and eye larger. Color above browuish red, with thirty-one pairs of narrow black half rings inclosing white spaces from head to anus, the black rings not extending across the abdomen, which is uniform yellowish white. Head black above. Snout broader and more depressed than in Osceola genfilifi. It is also more elongate, and hence, also, the loreal and nasal plates; in the only specimen examined, the second superior labial plate is replaced by two smaller ones, thus increasing the number to eight, a peculiarity probably abnormal, as all the other species of the genus have seven. The body above is brownish red in spirits, crossed by thirty-one pairs of black rings from head to anus. The in- closed white spaces are one and a half scales wide on the central fifteen dor- sal rows, and begin to widen abruptly an the fourth lateral row on each side, extending over three or four scales longitudinally on the first row. On the sides they are punctulated with black, as in Osceola (jentiUs. The oc- cipital white ring is much broader. The black rings are each two scales wide on the vertebral region, narrow- ing to loss than one scale laterally. On the fourth lateral row the two rings of each pair begin to diverge, the anterior uniting on the edge of the abdomen with the posterior ring of the pair in advance, the posterior becoming confluent with the anterior of the succeeding pair. Thus the ground color is inclosed in the form of a transverse elliptical spot. Upon the middle of the body these spots are two o
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