. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences. Science; Natural history; Natural history. scales. On the neck it broadens and merges into darker surface of head. On each side of this stripe, a vitta, averaging "Chae- tura Drab" to "Clove Brown," runs parallel anteriorly em- bracing fiive and one-half scales, and posteriorly indistinctly breaking up into two bands separated by a faint light stripe. Lower two rows of scales grayish, approaching the color of dorsal stripe. Belly uniformly "Cream ; Range — The chaparral-covered foothills of southweste
. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences. Science; Natural history; Natural history. scales. On the neck it broadens and merges into darker surface of head. On each side of this stripe, a vitta, averaging "Chae- tura Drab" to "Clove Brown," runs parallel anteriorly em- bracing fiive and one-half scales, and posteriorly indistinctly breaking up into two bands separated by a faint light stripe. Lower two rows of scales grayish, approaching the color of dorsal stripe. Belly uniformly "Cream ; Range — The chaparral-covered foothills of southwestern California and northwestern Lower California, from sea level to an elevation of approximately six thousand feet. Northward it is known to range to lower Sespe Canyon, Ventura County and Prairie Fork of the San Gabriel River, Los Angeles County; eastward it ranges to San Bernardino, San Bernardino County, Banning, and Vanderventer Flat east of Lake Hemet, Riverside County, Santa Ysabel and Campo, San Diego County; south- ward it ranges at least as far as Ensenada, Lower California. The most westerly record is Sespe Canyon, Ventura County, Cali- fornia, although it is known to occur as far west as the coast in San Diego County, while the Ensenada specimen is from the coast of northern Lower PLATE 14 Desert Patch-nosed Snake, Salvadora grahamiae hexalepis, collected near Red Rock Canyon, Kern County, California General Description and Remarks—The following data are summarized from scale counts, measurements, and notes on 60 specimens. In some cases the condition of individual speci- mens owing to the hazards of collection and preservation was such that complete description of all characters could not be de- termined with safety. One specimen consisted of a head only. Size, medium; does not seem to attain the length of other forms of Salvadora. Scale rows 17. Scales all smooth except near anal region where lateral scales are slightly carinate. Ven- 91. Please no
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