. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. . COPK, C^ N- A-.^t. aa. Rept., 1875, p. Plestiodon ietragrammus Baiko, Pu'^- ^^"^"^ Surv.,Rept.,l859, p. 1- 441, pi. xxii 1), Euneces Bocouht, Miss. Sc. Max., Rept., 1881, p. 44 , p '^' ' ^f P nvtihracinus. Dorsal rows of scales, ^T •^Itwe:^^^^^^^ cephalic plates much twenty-six to twenty 61 Ut^' postnasal exactly above the see- as in 1\ anthracmus, but the single postn ^^^
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. . COPK, C^ N- A-.^t. aa. Rept., 1875, p. Plestiodon ietragrammus Baiko, Pu'^- ^^"^"^ Surv.,Rept.,l859, p. 1- 441, pi. xxii 1), Euneces Bocouht, Miss. Sc. Max., Rept., 1881, p. 44 , p '^' ' ^f P nvtihracinus. Dorsal rows of scales, ^T •^Itwe:^^^^^^^ cephalic plates much twenty-six to twenty 61 Ut^' postnasal exactly above the see- as in 1\ anthracmus, but the single postn ^^^^^ ^^^_^^^ ^^^.^ ^^^^^^.^^ edges in line, the two small anteorbitals wedged between the fourth and fifth upper labials, instead of third and fourth; the frontal hexagonal, much wider than long instead of rather longer than wide; anterior single plate of chin generally divided in to two instead of single. General color of body and limbs clear dark olive above, with two yellowish stripes on each side, the two upper on the central line of the fourth row of out dusky margius Entirely black, with au olivaceous huge. ,.„„,„„ le<'s The speciesvaries mud. iu proportions the youuger havmg the le s louger and body shorter. Then the hiud leg .s "'"^^^f. f,'^/^,^, three-fourths to three aud cue-half iu head aud body; 'If j'^^^ t°jsa from four and one-half to five and one-half *''"«- '^'j^f^'tf^m tiou of fore leg is from three-eighths to three-uuiths the distance from snout to insertion of hind leg. .i,„„..;„„, from This species bears a close relationship to t^^^^-^^^^'^^, ^^fX .hich it is chiefly to be distinguished, in adclition « ^^^^ "f f^f/, stated, by the fact that the upper lateral light stripe is tbroughjie middle of the fourth row of scales instead of the third, --^J^^l^^l rated by six rows of scales, not four, and has no dusky edging above Te stripes are yellow, not greenish white. The -^- -^^ J^ scarcely darker than the back in the
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