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All the color variations defined by Professor Garman 1 are found 

 in the series collected. The " Scorpion " is well known and much 

 dreaded by the people of Tennessee. 



Specimens — Samburg, 4 juv., 1 ad; Raleigh, 3 juv. , 2 ad. 



Genus OLIGOSOMA Girard. 



12. Oligosoma laterale (Say). Ground Swift. 



Distribution identical with that of Sceleporus undulatus. Abun- 

 dant. 



Specimens- — Raleigh, 3 ad; Sawyer's Springs, 1 juv. ad. 



Order OPHIDIA. 



Family COLUBRIDJE. 



Genus THAMNOPHIS Fitzinger. 



13. Thamnophis ordinatus (L.). Common Garter Snake. 



Very few specimens of this genus were met with. A specimen 

 of typical (?) ordinatus was taken on the Cumberland plateau near 

 Clear Fork Creek in the northern corner of Morgan County, but it 

 escaped from my pocket. A small ii^ividual in bad state of pre- 

 servation was examined at Samburg and thrown away. 



Specimens — Samburg, 1 juv. ad. 



14. Thamnophis ordinatus obscurus (Cope). Plain Garter Snake. 



A large garter snake which I found in a mutilated condition on 

 the road from Cloudland to Roan Mountain Station is doubtfully 

 referred to this variety. It has nineteen rows of scales and seven 

 labials, and was originally about 30 inches long and an inch in 

 diameter at the thickest part. The color of the back is a uniform 

 greenish bronze without spots or lines saving a yellowish vertebral 

 stripe covering the median row and half of each of the two adjoining 

 rows of dorsal scales. The gastrostegal scales are of a uniform 

 deep greenish azure hue. The head is dark bronze without mark- 

 ings. 



Specimen: Base of Roan Mt. (3,500 ft.), Carter Co., 1 ad. 



Genus NATRIX Laurenti. 



15. Natrix sipedon (L.). Spotted Water Snake. 



The series of smaller water snakes from Reelfoot Lake plainlv 

 demonstrates that the so-called " varieties" fasciatus and rhombifer 



1 Kept. & Amphib. of Ills. p. 258-9. 



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