CHECK LIST N. AMER. AMPH. REPT. 99 



Elaphe laeta (Baird and Girard) 

 Scotophis laetus Baird and Girard 



Cat. N. Amer. Rept., Pt. 1, 1853, p. 77. 

 Elaphe laeta Stejneger and Barbour 



Check List N. Amer. Amph. Rept., Ed. 1, 1917, p. 82. 

 Coluber laetus Cope 



Ann. Rep. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1898 (1900), p. 850, fig. 196. 

 Coluber emoryi Cope 



Ann. Rep. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1898 (1900), p. 852, fig. 197. 



TYPE locality: Red River, Arkansas. 

 range: Kansas southward to Central Mexico. 



Elaphe obsoleta obsoleta (Say) 



PILOT BLACK-SNAKE 



Coluber obsoletus Say 



Long's Exp. Rocky Mts., Vol. 1, 1823, p. 140. 

 ElapJiis obsoletus Garman 



Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., Vol. 8, No. 3, 1883, p. 54. 

 Coluber obsoletus obsoletus (part) Cope 



Ann. Rep. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1898 (1900), p. 844, fig. 194. 



TYPE locality: Isle au Vache [sic] to Council Bluffs on the 



Missouri River. 

 range: Southern New England westward to Michigan, southward 



to Texas, Louisiana, and Florida. 



Elaphe obsoleta confinis (Baird and Girard) 

 Scotophis confinis Baird and Girard 



Cat. N. Amer. Rept., Pt. 1, 1853, p. 76. 

 Elaphe obsoleta confinis Stejneger and Barbour 



Check List N. Amer. Amph. Rept., Ed. 1, 1917, p. 83. 

 Coluber confinis Cope 



Ann. Rep. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1898 (1900), p. 829, fig. 187. 



TYPE locality: Anderson, South Carolina. 

 range: South Atlantic and Gulf States and states of southern 

 Mississippi Valley. 



Elaphe quadrivittata quadrivittata (Holbrook) 

 CHICKEN-SNAKE 



Coluber quadrivittatus Holbrook 



N. Amer. Herp., Ed. 1, Vol. 1, 1836, p. 113, pi. 21. 

 Coluber quadrivittatus Cope 



Ann. Rep. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1898 (1900), p. 838, fig. 192. 



TYPE locality: "North Carolina to Florida and westward as 



far as the Mississippi." 

 range: Carolina to Florida and west to the Mississippi River. 



