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ocular vitta, with an ash-colored stripe between the two, which 

 extends from the superciliary backward on the sides of the neck. 

 As in the other brown marks these stripes are margined with 

 black. The adjacent edges of the fourth and fifth labials are 

 brown, 



(Description from Cope's "Crocodilians, Lizards, and 

 Snakes," pp. 852-854.) 



I have examined specimens from Riley and Phillips counties. 

 It probably occurs throughout the state, but is very rare. 



STORERIA Baird and Girakd. 

 Storeria Baird and Girard, Cat. N. Amer. Rept., Pt. I, Serp., 1853, p. 135. 

 Ischnognathus Dumeril, Prod, dee Ophid., 1853, p. 72. 



KEY TO SPECIES. 



Dorsal scales carinated, fifteen to seventeen rows. Cephalic plates normal. 

 An-:vl divided. Subcaudals in two series. Head distinct from body. Dor- 

 sal scales in fifteen rows: oculars 2-2; five or six upper labials. 



»S'. occipitomaculata. 



Dorsal scales in seventeen rows; oculars 1-2; seven upper labials. . S. dekayi. 



Storeria occipitomaculata Baird and Girard. 



Storer's Snake. 

 Tropidonotus occiqoitomaculatus Storer, Rep. Rept. Mass., 1830, p. 230. 

 Storeria oocipltomaculcda Baird and Girard, Cat. N. Amer, Rept., Pt. I, 



Serp., 1853, p. 137. 

 Ischnognathus oGcipitomaculatus Gunther, Cat. Colubr., Snakes Brit. 



MuB., 1858, p. 61. 



Fig. 19. 

 Storeria occipitomaculata B. and G. 



Dorsal scales all keeled, in fifteen rows. Frontal broad, 

 hexagonal. Superciliaries narrow, about the same width pos- 

 teriorly as anteriorly. Occipitals large. Prefrontals quadran- 

 gular, broad, and short. Internasals with the posterior and 

 inner margins straight, the outer margin curved. Rostral 

 broad, of medium height. Nasals large, nostril in anterior. 



