CHECK LIST N. AMER. AMPH. KEPT. 85 



Heterodon nasicus Baird and Girard 



Heterodon nasicus Baird and Girard 



Stansbury's Expl. Surv. Vail. Great Salt Lake, 1852, p. 352. 

 Heterodon nasicus Cope 



Ann. Rep. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1898 (1900), p. 772, fig. 168. 



TYPE locality: Texas. 



RANGE : Southwestern Iowa, Kansas and Nebraska west to Mon- 

 tana and south to northern Mexico. Common along the Mexi- 

 can border from Texas to Arizona. 



Heterodon simus (Linne) 

 Coluber simus Linne 



Syst. Nat., Ed. 12, Vol. 1, 1766, p. 375. 

 Heterodon simus Holbrook 



N. Amer. Herp., Ed. 2, Vol. 4, 1842, p. 57, pi. 15. 

 Heterodon simus Cope 



Ann. Rep. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1898 (1900), p. 770, fig. 167. 



TYPE locality: Carolina. 



RANGE : Southeastern states, Indiana to Florida. 



Liopeltis (GENUS) 



FiTZiNGER, Syst. Rept., 1843, p. 26 

 TYPE : tricolor 



Liopeltis vemalis (Harlan) 

 SMOOTH GREEN-SNAKE 

 Coluber vemalis Harlan 



Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., Vol. 5, 1827, p. 361. 

 Liopeltis vemalis Cope 



Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1860, p. 560. 

 Liopeltis vemalis Cope 



Ann. Rep. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1898 (1900), p. 782, fig. 169. 



TYPE locality: Pennsylvania and New Jersey are mentioned 



as habitat. 

 RANGE : Southern Canada through the Eastern and Middle States 



south to Florida and Texas, New Mexico. 



Opheodrys (GENUS) 



FiTZiNGER, Syst. Rept., 1843, p. 26 

 type : aestivus 



Opheodrys aestivus (Linne) 



ROUGH GREEN-SNAKE 



Coluber aestivus Linne 

 Syst. Nat., Ed. 12, Vol. 1, 1766. p. 387. 



