. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. OROCODILIANS, LIZARDS, AND SNAKES. 885 OSCEOLA DOLIATA TRIANGULA Boie. Ophibohis doUatua triangulus Cope, Check-list X. Anier. Rept. Batr., 1875, p. 37; Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XI, 1888, p. 383. Coluier trianfjulum Boie, Isis von Oken, 1827, p. 537. Ablabes triauguliim Dumeril aiul Bibron, Erp. G6n., YII, , p. 315.—Hallo- well, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1856, p. 245. Lampropeltis triangitia Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pbila., 1860,
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. OROCODILIANS, LIZARDS, AND SNAKES. 885 OSCEOLA DOLIATA TRIANGULA Boie. Ophibohis doUatua triangulus Cope, Check-list X. Anier. Rept. Batr., 1875, p. 37; Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XI, 1888, p. 383. Coluier trianfjulum Boie, Isis von Oken, 1827, p. 537. Ablabes triauguliim Dumeril aiul Bibron, Erp. G6n., YII, , p. 315.—Hallo- well, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1856, p. 245. Lampropeltis triangitia Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pbila., 1860, p. Pseudoclaps Y Bertiiold, Abh. k. Gess. Wiss., Gottiagen, 1,1843, p. 67, pi. i, figs. 11,12. Coluber eximius DeKay, N. York Fauna, Rept., 1842, p. 38.—Haulan, .lourn. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1827. p. 360.—Holijeook, N. Amer. Herpt., Ill, 1842, pi. 15.— Gunther, Cat. Col. Snakes Brit. Mus., 1858, p. 91. (>2)hiholus eximius ISaird and Girard, Cat. N. Amer. Rept., 1858, p. 87. CoroneUa irian<jidHm Boulengeh, Cat. Snakes Brit. Mus., II, 1894, p. 200. Muzzle ratlier broader, and the head more depressed than in the species of the genus allied to 0. getulus; in other respects generally similar, like them having all the scales hexagonal, those on the back scarcely narrower than those on the sides, although rather more elon- gated than usual. Vertical longer than broad, shorter than the occi-. Osceola doliata tkiangula Boie. = 1. ?Westchester County, New York. Collection of E. D. Cope. pitals. General color above yellowish-gray, with a dorsal series of large blotches, tifty-five in number from the head to the tip of the tail, the forty-fifth opposite to the anus. These are. transversely elliptical, about four scales long, covering twelve to fifteen scales across the back (more anteriorly than posteriorly), and separated by intervals of one and a half to two scales, all of nearly the same width. The spots them- selves are grayish-brown or chocolate, with a b
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