134 Brimley — Notes on the Zoology of Lake Ellis, North Carolina. 



Liolepisma laterale. 



GROUND LIZARD. 

 Occasional. 



Carphophiops amoenus. 



GROUND SNAKE. 



Taken each year rather comnionly under logs in woods. 



Farancia abacura. 



RED-BELLIED HORN SNAKE. 

 Three small specimens and three good-sized adults taken in May, 1906. 

 The latter were taken by H. H. Brimley and were in coitu, the third speci- 

 men, an albinistic male with the red of the lower parts rejilaced by pure 

 white, being twined up with the other two, a normal male and female. 

 The female, the largest of the three, measured 1,417 mm. long (a speci- 

 men taken by H. H. Brimley, near Newberne in 18(S5, measured 1,847 mm. 

 long and is the largest si^ecimen of which we have heard). 



Abastor erythrogramus. 



HOOP SNAKE. 



A sinall specimen and an adult taken in 1906. In spite of the vernacu- 

 lar name given, all the evidence seems to point to Ophisanrus ventralis 

 (the joint snake), being the hoop snake of vulgar fable. When this latter 

 animal has had its tail broken off at all near its body and has started to 

 grow a new one, the new portion is of quite a different color from the 

 rest of the tail and looks not unlike a short stout horn, and this fact is, I 

 believe, tlie basis for all tlie wonderful yarns about the hooj) and h()rn 

 snakes. 



Diadophis punctatus. 



RING-NECKED SNAKE. 

 One taken in May, 1906, and another in 1907, both while looking for 

 Stereochilus in Great Lake woods. Both specimens had the yellow neck 

 ring incomplete above, it being interrupted in the center by a narow bar 

 of the color of the back, 



Ophibolus getulus. 



KING SNAKE. 

 Rather connnon. 



Bascanium constrictor. 



BLACK SNAKE. 

 Common. 



Coluber guttatus. 



RAT SNAKE. 



One killed by Woglum in IMay, 1906. 



Coluber quadrivittatus. 



STRIPED CHICKEN SNAKE, 

 One taken by Sherman and Jiiyseif in INIay, 190S. It was a good-sized 

 adult, quite dark in coloration. (Also taken by H. H. Brimley at Cape 

 Hatteras in July, 1905.) 



