CHECKLIST OF THE SNAKES OF MEXICO 59 



Schmidt and Davis, Field book of snakes, 1941, p. 144, fig. 38.— ?Mixlaik 

 and MuLAiK, Opeia, 1941, No. 4, pp. 263-264. 



Type.—U.S.'NM. No. 10403. 



2'ype locality. — Fort Davis, Tex. 



Range. — Western Texas in the Great Bend of the Rio Grande south- 

 ward probably to southern Coahuila (in Mexico recorded only from 

 the Carmen Mountains, extreme northern Coahuila). 



ELAPHE CHLOROSOMA (Gunther) 



Coluber chlorosoma Gunther, Biologia Centrali-Americana, Rept., 1894, pp. 115- 

 116, pi. 41. 



Elaphc chlorosoma Stejneger and Barboltr, A check list of North American am- 

 phibians and reptiles, ed. 1, 1917, p. 82. — Smith, Copeia, 1941, No. 3, pp. 

 134-135. 



Type.— Bvit. Mus. Nat. Hist. 



2'ype locality. — Atoyac and Amula in Guerrero and San Ramon 

 in Jalisco. 



Range. — Mountains of Pacific drainage from southeastern Arizona 

 southward to the Isthmus of Tehuantepec (recorded from the states 

 of Chihuahua, Colima, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Jalisco, Michoacan, 

 Oaxaca, Zacatecas, and perhaps Queretaro and San Luis Potosi). 



ELAPHE FLAVIRUFA FLAVIRUFA (Cope) 



Coluber flavirufus Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 18, 1866 (1867), 



p. 319. 

 Elaphe flavirufa flavirufa Smith, Copeia, 1941, No. 3, p. 132, fig. 2. 



Type.—U. S. N. M. No. 65C6. 



Type locality. — Yucatan. 



Range. — Atlantic slopes from central Tamaulipas southward into 

 Guatemala and British Honduras, and on Pacific slopes at the Isthmus 

 of Tehuantepec; Corn Islands, Nicaragua (recorded from several lo- 

 calities in Mexico in the states of Campeche, Oaxaca, Queretaro, 

 Tamaulipas, Veracruz, and Yucatan). 



ELAPHE FLAVIRUFA MATUDAI Smith 



Elaphe fiavirnfa matudai Smith, Copeia, 1941, No. 3, pp. 132-134, fig. 1. 



Type.—V.S.^.M. No. 110303. 



Type locality. — Salto de Agua, 1,200 feet on Cerro Ovando, near 

 Escuintla, Chiapas. 



Range. — Kiiown only from the type locality ; occurs on Pacific slopes 

 of southern Chiapas and probably Guatemala. 



ELAPHE LAETA LAETA (Baird and Girard) 



Scotoph^ii laefus Baikd and Girard, Catalogue of North American reptiles, 1853, 

 pp. 77-78. 



