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Red Racer
- Colouration
- With this variety, the colours of which are decidedly reddish, the transverse bands of the young are retained through life.
- Dimensions
- Smaller than the typical form.
- Distribution
- The southwestern United States--Nevada, Utah, Arizona and southern portions of California.
Like the typical form the scales are in seventeen rows. The body is slender and the tail very long.
The ground-colour is pale reddish-brown; many of the scales have darker tips and some are narrowly margined with pink. The forward quarter of the body is crossed by dark bands, but these are not very distinct. The greater portion of the abdomen is pink, though this hue is usually mixed with yellow and clouded with gray.