. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. 888 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1898. Cat. Ko. 9745 presents the anomaly of only one temporal scale of the first row on each side. The head is narrower posteriorly than usual, and the colors are darker. The specimens above enumerated are divided between the 0. d. doliata and 0. d. triangula in Yarrow's Check-list. OSCEOLA DOLIATA CLERICA Baird and Girard. OpMholus doUatus clericus Cope, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XI, 1888, p. 383. Ophibolus cler
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. 888 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1898. Cat. Ko. 9745 presents the anomaly of only one temporal scale of the first row on each side. The head is narrower posteriorly than usual, and the colors are darker. The specimens above enumerated are divided between the 0. d. doliata and 0. d. triangula in Yarrow's Check-list. OSCEOLA DOLIATA CLERICA Baird and Girard. OpMholus doUatus clericus Cope, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XI, 1888, p. 383. Ophibolus clericns Baihd and Gikard, Cat. N. Amer. Rept., Pt. 1, Serpents, p. 88. Coronella triangulum Boulenger, part, Cat, Snakes Brit. Mus., II, 1894, p. 200. General characters much as in 0. d. triangula. Top of head and nape with a longitudinal reddish black-edged spot which embraces a Y-shaped yellow spot in its center. A small mediam parietal si)ot. A pale cross band between orbits, and a brown band on the prefrontal plates, which continues as a black band from the eye to the angle of the mouth, crossing the last two superior labial plates. Labials with dusky mutual borders. The body is crossed by a series of thirty-eight to forty-eight dorsal blotches, there being nine or ten on the tail. They are much broader. Fig. 212. Osceola doliata clerica Baird and Girard. — 1. Southern Illinois. Museum, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia. and larger than in 0. eximia, and extend between the outer dorsal rows. These blotches are chocolate, lighter on the sides, and distinctly bordered with black; they are about five or six scales long. The inter- vals between the blotches are mottled ash, or pepper and salt. On each side is a second alternating series of black blotches, much smaller than the dorsal, and extending from the exterior dorsal row on the edge of the abdominal scutellaj. Beneath yellowish white, with dis- tinct quadrate black blotches, opposite to the large dorsal spots, most
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