Streckei — Reptiles and Batrachians of Texas. 51 



Crotalus adamanteus Beiauvois. 



This species is recorded by Mr. Mitchell as having formerly been rather 

 common in the timbered belts along the coast region in Harris, Mata- 

 gorda, Lavaca, Jackson, Victoria and Calhoun counties. He states that 

 its habits are different from those of Crotalus atrox which occurs in the 

 prairie district of the same section. 



Crotalus horridus L. 



Mr. Mitchell writes me that five specimens of this rattlesnake have 

 been taken in Victoria County since 1902. 



Kinosternon louisianae Baur. 



I collected a typical specimen of this turtle on the Arroyo Medio, about 

 five miles from Refugio. 



Kinosternon flavescens Agassiz. 



Mr. Mitchell has collected several specimens at Victoria. Two of these 

 are now in the Baylor Museum. 



Chelydra serpentina L. 



Dr. A. E. Brown in his list of Texas reptiles (Texas reptiles and their 

 faunal relations. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila., 1903, p. 552) excludes 

 this species on the ground that he has seen no record of exact localities. 

 I have collected specimens at Burnet, Burnet County, Waco, McLennan 

 County, San Antonio, Bexar County and in Bee and Refugio counties. 

 Mr. Mitchell has collected it in his county, also.* 



Bufo debilis Girard. 



I collected a single specimen in Refugio County during a heavy rain. 

 It was the only one noted during my stay. 



Hyla squirella Bosc. 



Mr. Mitchell recently captured two specimens at Victoria, one of which 

 he kindly presented to me. He informs me that the color, in the living 

 specimen, was pale canary. 



Hyla cinerea Daudin. 



Mr. Mitchell sent me a rather peculiar, light colored specimen which 

 he informed me was yellow in life. It is rather heavier built than the 

 average H. cinerea, but otherwise shows little variation from the ordinary 

 type. This species varies in color from yellow and light pea-green to 

 dark oil-green; the labial stripe and spots from white to deep yellow. 



* I have a specimen of Xerobatis berlandieri Agass. from a point in Live Oak County 

 much farther north than the southern part of Refugio, and natives of the latter county 

 who have examined it claim that it occurs there also. 



