CHECK LIST N. AMER. AMPH. KEPT. 81 



Carphopkiops amoenus Cope 



Ann. Rep. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1898 (1900), p. 735, fig. 151. 



TYPE locality: Pennsylvania. 



range: Connecticut to Florida, westward in Ohio, Illinois, and 

 Indiana. 



Carphophis vermis (Kennicott) 



Celida vermis Kennicott 



Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1859, p. 99. 

 Carphopkiops vermis Cope 



Ann. Rep. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1898 (1900), p. 737, fig. 152. 



TYPE locality: Missouri. 



range: Kansas southward to Louisiana. 



Abastor (GENUS) 



Gray, Cat. Snakes Brit. Mus., 1849, p. 78 

 type: erythrogrammus 



Abastor erythrogrammus (Daudin) 

 RAINBOW-SNAKE 



Coluber erythrogrammus Daudin 



Hist. Nat. Rept., Vol. 7, 1803, p. 93, pi. 83, figs. 2a-b. 

 Abastor erythrogrammus Gray 



Cat. Snakes Brit. Mus., 1849, p. 78. 

 Abastor erythrogrammus Cope 



Ann. Rep. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1898 (1900), p. 738, fig. 153. 



TYPE locality: fitats Unis d'Amerique. 



RANGE : Virginia southward to Florida and Alabama. 



Farancia (GENUS) 



Gray, Zool. Misc., 1832, p. 78 

 type: drummondi = abacura 



Farancia abacura (Holbrook) 



HORxX-SNAKE, MUD-SNAKE 



Coluber abacurus Holbrook 



N. Amer. Herp., Ed. 1, Vol. 1, 1836, p. 119, pi. 23. 

 Farancia abacura Baird and Girard 



Cat. N. Amer. Rept., Pt. 1, 1853, p. 123. 

 Farancia abacura Cope 



Ann. Rep. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1898 (1900), p. 741, fig. 154. 



TYPE locality: South Carolina. 



RANGE : Virginia to Florida and Louisiana, in the Mississippi Val- 

 ley northward to Indiana. 



