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Elaphe laeta Stejneger and Baebotib, A check list of North American amphibians 



and reptiles, ed. 1, 1917, p. 82. — Ditmaks, Reptiles of North America, 1936, p. 



221, pi. G7. — Schmidt and Davis, Field book of snakes, 1941, p. 146, fig. 39 



(midbody pattern). 

 Elaphe laeta laeta Woodbuky and Wooobuky, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 



55, 1942, pp. 139-140. 



Tj/pe. — ^Lost. 



Type locality. — Red River, Ark, 



Range. — East of the Rocky Mountains from southern Nebraska 

 southward through Texas to southern Coahuila, southern central 

 Chihuahua, and central Tamaulipas (recorded from a few scattered 

 localities in the Mexican states of Chihuahua, Coahuila, Durango, 

 Nuevo Leon, and Tamaulipas) . 



ELAPHE ROSALIAE (Mocquard) 



CoUiler rosaJiae Mocquard, Nouv. Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, ser. 4, vol. 1, 1899, 

 pp. 321-323, pi. 12, fig. 1. 



Elaphe rosaUae St'ejnegek and Baebour, A check list of North American am- 

 phibians and reptiles, ed. 1, 1917, p. 84. 



Type. — ^Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris. 



Type locality. — Santa Rosalia, Baja California, 



Range. — Central and southern Baja California. 



ELAPHE SUBOCULARIS (Brown) s' 



Coluber suhocularis Brown, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 53, 1901, pp 

 402^95, pi. 29. 



Elaphe suhocularis Stejneger and Bakbouk, A check list of North American am- 

 phibians and reptiles, ed. 1, 1917, p. 84.— Smith, Ajin. Carnegie Mus., vol. 27, 

 1939, p. 317. — Schmidt and Davis, Field book of snakes, 1941, p. 153, fig. 41. 



Elaphe sclerotica Smith, Copeia, 1941, No. 3, pp. 135-136 (substitute name for 

 Coluber subocularis Brown, a secondary homonym of Bascanion suhocularis 

 Cope 1SG6 [=Masticophis m. mentovarius Dumeril, Bibron, and Dumeril, a 

 species referred to Coluber by Garman, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 8, 1883, 

 pp. 42, 147]). 



Type.— Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. No. 13733. 



Type locality. — Davis Mountains, Jeff Davis County, Tex. 



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

 ward to southern Coahuila (recorded in Mexico only from Cuatro 

 Cienegas and near Saltillo, Coahuila) . 



ELAPHE TRL^SPIS (Cope) 



Cohuber triaspis Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 18, 1866, p. 128. 

 Elaphe triaspis Amaral, Mem. Inst. Butantan, vol. 4, 1929, p. 159. — Ditmaes, 



Snakes of the world, 1931, pi. 17 (lower fig.). 

 Pityophis interniedius BoEmGER, Ber. Offenb. Ver. Nat., Nos. 22-23, 1883, p. 148 



(type locality, Mexico; type in Heidelberg Mus.). 



Type.— JJ-S.^.M. No. 24903. 



•Elaphe sclerotica Smith to those who suppress secondary homonyms. 



