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the range of the species. This small, largely nocturnal inhabitant 

 beneath stones, logs and other cover usually averages smaller than 

 S. dekaiji, and our specimen proves smaller than the two specimens 

 of the latter species taken in the swamp. The tail is lost, the speci- 

 men measuring 17.9 cm. to the vent. The gastrosteges are 120; 

 scales 15-15-15; temporals 1-2; supralabials 6; infralabials 7. 

 Unlike most of the descriptions, the ocular formulae are 3-2 for both 

 sides, instead of the 2 preocular condition usually noted. On the 

 right side of the head appears a small supranasal above the nostril 

 and at the common corner of the internasal, prefrontal and two 

 nasals. On the left side is a similar plate not touching the internasal. 

 Other specimens from other Georgian localities (Dr. J. C. Bradley, 

 collector) reveal no such condition, and the present specimen may 

 have had some accident, although it is not especially apparent. 



The head in front of the three occipital color spots is much darker 

 than the rest of the body; in alcohol it looks black — in fact, darker 

 than any other specimen of the species we have ever recorded. 

 The characteristic light spot of the fifth supralabial is, however, not 

 wholly obscured. This specimen, like Hay's record, had a slug in 

 its stomach and insect remains in its rectum. 



15. Haldea Striatula (Linn.): Brown Snake; Worm Snake; Ground Snake; Little Striped 

 Snake. Plate III, fig. 4. 



One specimen was secured on Billy's Island. In the Central 

 States this small snake extends from Minnesota to Texas, while in 

 the Eastern States its range from Virginia southward has not its 

 southern limit well determined. We can find no definite locus 

 beyond W. J. Taylor's (Cope, 1900, p. 1010) record for Nashville, 

 Ga., which is 50 miles northwest of the Okefinokee Swamp. Ditmars^* 

 gives it as extending to Florida, where it might well be, but in this 

 State Loennberg (1895, pp. 317-339) did not secure it. 



Coloration. — The field description of the color of this specimen is 

 as follows : Color of the back with the skin bluish and scales brownish 

 or opalescent; each scale with fine speckings, which sometimes 

 assume a black edge on the cephalic end of the scale. The color of 

 the dorsal scales extends onto the ends of the gastrosteges, fine 

 speckings accompanying it. The gastrosteges are greenish-yellow 

 or opalescent. A pinkish-like area occurs on the side of the head. 

 It crosses the last lower labial, the 4th and 5th upper labials and 

 first temporal and cephalic ends of the second row of temporals. 

 It then fades as it crosses the middle of the occipital plates. The 



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