The specimen from Párajo Verde, Veracruz, was considered to be an intergrade between _P. deppei_ and _P. lineaticollis_ by Smith (1943: 461), who stated that, although the snake had 231 ventrals and dark lateral streaks as does _deppei_, it had light-centered dorsal blotches and stripes on the neck as does _lineaticollis_. This specimen (USNM 110892) has a high number of ventrals for _deppei_; one from Jalisco has 232, and one each from Guanajuato and Veracruz have 229. The blotches posteriorly are lighter than those anteriorly and are slightly lighter in the center than at the periphery. Two anterior blotches are divided medially and narrowly connected by black streaks. Although these are somewhat suggestive of the pattern of _lineaticollis_, they are more nearly like that of _deppei_. Four other specimens from the same area are typically _deppei_. There is some doubt as to the actual provenance of the snake stated to have come from Párajo Verde, for, according to Smith (1943: 460), the snake had been tied to a truck and dragged halfway down the slopes of the Cumbres de Acultzingo, where he found it. He surmised that it probably was dragged no farther than the settlement, Párajo Verde, at the Cumbres de Acultzingo. Fugler and Webb (1956: 171) commented on the uniformly brown dorsum of a specimen (KU 39564) from 16 miles east and 18 miles north of Ocampo, Coahuila. It has a higher number of ventrals (242) and caudals (88) than is known for deppei. It is, without a doubt, a _Pituophis_. It is not _Pituophis catenifer_, as attested to by the presence of only two prefrontals. The high number of ventrals and caudals, together with the uniform dark brown dorsum, provide a combination of characters indicating that this specimen may represent an undescribed species in the _deppei_ group of _Pituophis_. _Distribution._--Southern Chihuahua and southern Coahuila southward on the western and central parts of the Mexican Plateau to the Valley of México and to southeastern Puebla and adjacent Veracruz.