140 BULLETIN 17 5, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



PITUOPHIS CATENIFER CATENIFER (Blainville) 



Coluber catenifer Blainville, Nouv, Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, vol. 4, p. 290, 

 pi. 26, figs. 2, 2a, 2b, 1835 (type in Paris Museum; type locality, California). — 

 BouLENGER, Catalogue of snakes in the British Museum, vol. 2, p. 67, 1894 

 (part) . 



Pituophis catenifer Baird and Girard, Catalogue of North American reptiles, pt. 

 2 (Serpentes), p. 69, 1853. — Gunther, Catalogue of the colubrine snakes in 

 . . . the British Museum, p. 86, 1858. — Girard, U. S. Explor. Exped., vol. 

 20, p. 135, pi. 18, figs. 1-7, 1858. — Bocourt, Mission scientifique au Mexique 

 et dans I'Am^rique Centrale, Rept., pp. 666, 670, pi. 47, figs. 4, 4a, 4b, 4c, 4d, 

 1888. — Stejneger, North Amer. Fauna, No. 7, p. 206, 1893. — Van Den- 

 burgh, Occ. Pap. California Acad. Sci., No. 5, p. 195, 1897; Proc. Amer. 

 Phil. Soc, vol. 37, p. 139, 1898.— McLain, Critical notes, p. 11, 1899.— 

 Grinnell and Grinnell, Throop Inst. Bull., No. 35, sci. ser., No. 1, p. 46, 

 fig. 20, 1907. — DiTMARS, The reptile book, p. 320, 1907 (part). — Grinnell, 

 Univ. California Publ. Zool., vol. 5, No. 1, p. 165, pi. 20, 1908.— Ditmars, 

 Zoologica, vol. 1, No. 11, p. 234, fig. 91, 1912. — Van Denburgh, Proc. Cali- 

 fornia Acad. Sci., ser. 4, vol. 3, pp. 149, 150, 1912; p. 158, 1912 (part).— Van 

 Denburgh and Slevin, Proc. California Acad. Sci., ser. 4, vol. 4, pp. 133, 136, 

 138, 141, 1914.— RtJTHLiNG, Copeia, No, 15, p. 4, 1915; No. 19, p. 10, 1915.— 

 Storer, Copeia, No. 35, p. 74, 1916. — Ruthling, Lorquinia, vol. 1, No. 1, 

 p. 6, 1916; Copeia, No. 37, p. 91, 1916. — Pratt, Manual of the vertebrates of 

 the United States, pp. 219-220, 1923. 



Pityophis catenifer Baird and Girard, U. S. Pac. R. R. Expl. and Surv., vol. 6, 

 pt. 4, No. 4, p. 11, 1859. — Hallowell, U. S. Pac. R. R. Expl. and Surv., vol. 

 10, pt. 4, No. 1, p. 24, 1859.— Cope, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 1, p. 39, 1875 

 (part). — Garman, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 8, No. 3, p. 52, 1883 (part). — 

 Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadephia, 1883, p. 29. — Garman, Bull. Essex 

 Inst., vol. 16, p. 27, 1884 (part). — Townsend, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 

 10, p. 239, 1887.— Cope, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 14, p. 641, 1892. (part); 

 Amer. Nat., vol. 30, p. 1018, 1896 (part); Rep. U. S. Nat. Mus. for 1898, p. 

 876, 1900 (part). — Johnson, Trans. Wisconsin Acad. Sci. Arts Lett., vol. 13, 

 p. 526, 1901. 



Pituophis melanoleucus var. catenifer Jan, Elenco sistematico degli Ofidi, p. 59, 

 1863; Iconographie g^nerale des ophidiens, livr. 22, pi. 1, fig. 1, 1867. 



Pityophis catenifer catenifer Brown, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1901, p. 

 53 (part). 



Pituophis catenifer catenifer Dice, Univ. California Publ. Zool., vol. 16, No. 17, 

 pp. 303, 307, 310, 1916. — Grinnell and Camp, Univ. California Publ. Zool., 

 vol. 17, No. 10, p. 193, 1917 (part). — Stejneger and Barbour, Checklist of 

 North American amphibians and reptiles, p. 85, 1917 (part). — Van Den- 

 burgh and Slevin, Proc. California Acad. Sci., ser. 4, vol. 9, No. 6, p. 211, 

 pi. 11, pi. 12, fig. 1, 1919. — Cowles, Journ. Ent. Zool., Pomona College, vol. 

 12, No. 3, p. 66, 1920. — Van Denburgh, Proc. California Acad. Sci., ser. 4, 

 vol. 10, p. 13, 1920; Occ. Pap. California Acad. Sci., No. 10, vol. 2, p. 707, pi. 

 74, 1922. — Stejneger and Barbour, Checklist of North American amphib- 

 ians and reptiles, ed. 2, p. 95, 1923. — Blanchard, Pap. Michigan Acad. Sci. 

 Arts Lett., vol. 4, pt. 2, p. 16, 1924. — Burt and Burt, Journ. Washington 

 Acad. Sci., vol. 19, No. 20, p. 456, 1929.— Stull, Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. 

 Michigan, No. 250, p. 4, 1932. 



Pityophis Heermanni Hallowell, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1853, p. 236 

 (no type known; type locality, Cosumnes River, Calif.). 



