Streckei — Reptiles and Batrarhians of Texas. 77 



Eutaenia marciana Baird and Girard. 



MARCY'S GARTER SNAKE. 



In May, 1897, I captured an adult specimen of a spotted garter snake 

 on the flats west of Waco and sent it, with other material, to my friend, 

 C. S. Brimley, of Raleigh, N. C. Brimley identified it as marciana and 

 sold it to a German Museum under that name ; but afterwards expressed 

 himself as being a little doubtful of the identification. Since then I 

 have collected good series of typical marciana in western and southern 

 Texas, and have been satisfied for a long time that Brimley's original 

 identification was correct, but nevertheless was higbly pleased when two 

 more fine specimens from Waco were brought in last November. One of 

 these was found under a pile of old lumber on the University campus. 



Eutaenia eques Reuss. 



REUSS" GARTER SNAKE. 



I have collected about six specimens in the country during the past 

 ten years. The difference between examples from central and western 

 Texas is very marked, and Cope was fully justified in recognizing two 

 color varieties. 



Eutaenia sirtalis sirtalis Linn. 



Eutaenia sirtalis parietalis Say. 



Garter snakes of the sirtalis type are exceedingly rare in this section of 

 Texas, and it is almost impossible to find a perfectly typical specimen of 

 either of the above subspecies. In my former paper I referred two 

 Entaenias to dorsalis Baird and Girard, which name is a synonym of 

 parietalis Say. One of these was a fairly typical specimen of Say's sub- 

 species, but I made my reference to the other with considerable doubt as 

 it seemed very like sirtalis, although I had been led to believe, through 

 my reading, that the typical subspecies was not found in this part of 

 Texas. In answer to a letter of inquiry written to Dr. A. E. Brown, 

 Director of the Zoological Society of Philadelphia, regarding some of his 

 authorities, I was referred to one of Cope's papers which recorded the 

 occurrence of E. sirtalis sirtalis near Dallas. Since that time I have 

 collected three specimens, all of which are referable to sirtalis. 



I ant ilia gracilis Baird and Girard. 



GRACEFUL TANTILLA. 



This species must be very rare here as I have found but one during all 

 my years of collecting. In life this specimen was light golden-brown 

 above, reddish underneath. 



Elaps fulvius Linn. 

 HARLEQUIN SNAKE. 



This handsome snake is not uncommon. Damp places near springs and 

 the vicinity of small streams are its favorite resorts, for in these places its 

 food, which consists largely of other snakes, is usually abundant. In 



