. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. 918 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1898. OPHIBOLUS GETULUS SPLENDIDUS Baird and Girard. Ophiholns yetulus spleiidldiin Coi'K, Check-list N. Anier. Hatr. Kept., 1875, p. 37. Ophibolus splendidiis Baird and (iiUAUO, Cat. N. Amer. Rept., Pt. 1, Serp., 1853, p. 83.—Baird, II S. Hex. Bound. Surv., II, 1859, p. 20, pi. xiv. Lampropeltis splendlda Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1860, p. 255. Black above; the sides black, with a white spot in each
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. 918 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1898. OPHIBOLUS GETULUS SPLENDIDUS Baird and Girard. Ophiholns yetulus spleiidldiin Coi'K, Check-list N. Anier. Hatr. Kept., 1875, p. 37. Ophibolus splendidiis Baird and (iiUAUO, Cat. N. Amer. Rept., Pt. 1, Serp., 1853, p. 83.—Baird, II S. Hex. Bound. Surv., II, 1859, p. 20, pi. xiv. Lampropeltis splendlda Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1860, p. 255. Black above; the sides black, with a white spot in each scale. The body crossed by broad bands, consisting of white spots, one in each scale. Dorsal rows twenty-three. Similar in general features to 0. g. boylii. Vertical plate similar to that of 0. g. boylii, but broader, and the sides more nearly parallel. This species forms a connecting link, as to color, between the blotched. Fig. 229. Ophibolus getdlus splendidus Baird and Gikard. = 1. Cat. No. 18541, varieties of 0. g. smji and 0. g. getulus. There is a series of dorsal black blotches from head to tail; in one specimen sixty-three, the forty-ninth opposite the anus; in the other, fifty-two, the forty-first opposite the anus. These are four or five scales long and six or seven wide. The lighter intervals between are constituted by one or two transverse rows of spots, each one on a separate scale. The scales on the sides (from the first to the seventh or eighth rows) are black, each one with an elongated white blotch in the center. These blotches occupy nearly the whole scale on the exterior row, but diminish in amount toward the back. A series of rhomboidal darker spots is seen on each side opposite the light intervals, produced by the less amount of white on the scales at that place, and sometimes extend to the abdomen. The. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and ap
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