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LAMPROPELTIS TRIANGULUM OLIGOZONA (Bocourt) 



Coronella formosa oligozona Bocourt, Mission scientifique au Mexique et dans 

 I'Am^rique centrale, Rept., livr. 10, 1886, pp. 614-615, pi. 39, fig. 8 (in color). 



LampropeUis triangulum oligozona Smith, Proc. Rochester Acad. Sci., vol. 8, 1942, 

 pp. 201-202. 



Type. — Mils. Hist. Nat. Paris, two cotypes. 



Type locality. — "Tehuantepec." 



Range. — Foothills on Pacific slopes of southern Guatemala north- 

 westward through the mountains of southern Chiapas to the Isthmus 

 of Tehuantepec (only definite locality in Mexico is Huehuetan, 

 Chiapas). 



LAMPROPELTIS TRIANGULUM POLYZONA Cope 



LampropeUis polyzona Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 12, 1860, p. 



258.— DiTMAKs, Snakes of the world, 1931, pi. 22 (lower fig.). 

 LampropeUis triangulum polyzona Dunn, Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, No. 



353, 1937, p. 1.— Smith, Proc. Rochester Acad. Sci., vol. 8, 1042, pp. 200-202. 



Type.— Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. No. 9770. 



Type locality. — Cuatupe, near Jalapa, Veracruz. 



Range. — Central Veracruz southward into Guatemala and British 

 Honduras (recorded from numerous localities in Veracruz.^ San Cristo- 

 bal, Oaxaca, Macuspana and Teapa, Tahasco^ and San Diego, Puehla) . 



LAMPROPELTIS TRIANGULUM SCHMIDTI Stuart 



LampropeUis triangulum schmidti Stuart, Occ Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 

 No. 323, 1935, pp. 1-3. 



Type.— Brit. Mus. Nat. Hist. No. 81.10.1.97. 



Type locality. — Tres Marias Islands. 



Range. — The type locality and the adjacent mainland (known defi- 

 nitely only from Maria Madre Island and from Tenacatita Bay, 

 Jalisco). 



LAMPROPELTIS ZONATA ZONATA (Lockington ex Blainville)" 



f Coluber (ZacJiolus) zonatus Blainvuxe, Nouv. Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, ser. 3, 

 vol. 4, 1835, p. 293 (type locality, California ; tj^e lost). 



^Klauber (Bull. Zool. Soc. San Diego, No. 18, 1943, pp. 44-46) shows that, although 

 the coral kingsnake, of all known in western United States, fits best the description of 

 Coluber zonatus Blainville, the information given is so scanty that association of the 

 name with any species is dubious. In brief, Klauber considers Blainville's name unidenti- 

 fiable as of 1943, although in 1936 Blanchard (in Burt, Copeia, 1936, pp. 96-97) accepted 

 its identiflability with the coral kingsnake. Of the earlier reviewers of the species, 

 Stejneger (Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 25, 1902, p. 153) regards the name unidentifiable, 

 while Van Denburgh (loc. clt.) accepts it. The preponderance of opinion and weight of 

 argument, however, appear to favor consideration of Blainville's name as unidentifiable 

 even as of the time of its publication. 



Although rejected by Peters (Copeia, 1938, p. 93) the reasoning expressed by Hubbs (in 

 Burt, op. cit., pp. 95-96), based primarily on Opinion 97 of the International Commission 

 on Zoological Nomenclature, is upheld by Opinion 126. The latter implicitly recommends 

 that names not adequately diagnosed as of the time of publication can be used by any 

 author for a later diagnosis of a species that may reasonably be the same as the original, 

 and that only if the later name be applied to 5. clearly different species than the original can 



