CHECK LIST N. AMER. AMPH. REPT. 117 



Natrix sipedon confluens (Blanchard) 

 Natrix fasciata confluens Blanchard 



Occ. Papers Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, No. 140, July 19, 1923, p. 1. 

 TYPE locality: Butler County, Missouri. 

 range: Eastern Louisiana north through southern and eastern 



Arkansas to southeastern Missouri and west to Texas to about 



the 98th Meridian. 



Natrix sipedon fasciata ^ (Linne) 



Coluber fasciatus Linne 



Syst. Nat., Ed. 12, Vol. 1, 1766, p. 378. 

 Natrix sipedon fasciata Stejneger and Barbour 



Check List N. Amer. Amph. Rept., Ed. 1, 1917, p. 96. 

 Natrix fasciata fasciata Cope 



Ann. Rep. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1898 (1900), p. 966, fig. 250. 



TYPE locality: Carolina. 



range: Virginia to Florida, westward to Louisiana and northward 



up the Mississippi through all the central states to Nebraska 



and Indiana. 



Natrix sipedon pictiventris (Cope) 

 Natrix fasciata pictiventris Cope 



Amer. Nat., Vol. 29, 1895, p. 677. 

 Natrix sipedon pictiventris Stejneger and Barbour 



Check List N. Amer. Amph. Rept., Ed. 1, 1917, p. 96. 

 Natrix fasciata pictiventris Cope 



Ann. Rep. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1898 (1900), p. 969. 

 TYPE locality: Palatka, Florida. 

 range: Peninsula of Florida. 



Natrix taxispilota (Holbrook) 

 WATER-PILOT 



Tropidonotus taxispilotus Holbrook 



N. Amer. Herp., Ed. 2, Vol. 4, 1842, p. 35, pi. 8. 

 Natrix taxispilota Cope 



Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Vol. 11, 1889, p. 392. 

 Natrix taxispilota Cope 



Ann. Rep. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1898 (1900), p. 959, fig. 246. 



type locality: South Carolina seaboard and the Altamaha 



River, Georgia. 

 range: Virginia, the Carolinas to Florida, west to Louisiana. 



1 Apparent forms which are more or less uniformly rufescent are found in the ranges of both the 

 subspecies fasciata and sipedon. To these the names of Natrix sipedon erythrogaster (Forster in Bossu, 

 Travels through North America, Vol. 1, 1771, p. 364, footnote) and Natrix sipedon fuhiventer (Rafi- 

 nesque, Ann. Nat., 1820, No. 1, p. 6) have been given. 



