166 BULLETIN 18 7, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



Atomardius multimaculatus Cope, Amer. Nat., vol. 17, 1883, pp. 1300-1301 (type 

 locality, San Francisco River, New Mexico; type unknown). 



Thamnophis multimaculatus Tayi^or, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., vol. 27, 1941, pp. 

 126-128, fig. 6. 



Type.—V.S.^M. No. 8600. 



Type locality. — Southern Arizona. 



Range. — Central Durango northward to southeastern Arizona, 

 southwestern New Mexico, and northern central Texas (recorded in 

 Mexico only from the states of Chihuahua and Durango). 



THAMNOPHIS RUTHVENI Hartweg and Oliver 



Thamnophis ruthv€7ii Hartweg and Oliver, Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 

 No. 390, 1938, pp. 1-4. 



Type.—VniY. Mich. Mus. Zool. No. 82469. 

 Type locality. — Three miles northeast of Tehuantepec, Oaxaca. 

 Range. — Pacific slopes of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec (recorded 

 only from the vicinity of the type locality and Chivela, Oaxaca) . 



THAMNOPHIS SAURITUS CHALCEUS (Cope) 



Prymnomiodon chalceus Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 12, 1860 



(1861), p. 558. 

 Thamnophis sauritus chalceus Dttnn, Herpetologica, vol. 1, 1940, pp. 192-193. 

 Eutacnia rutiloris Cope, Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc, vol. 22, 1885, pp. 387-389 (type 



locality, Cozumel Island; type, U.S.N.M. No. 13906). 

 Thamnophis sauritus rutiloris Smith, Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, No. 



388, 1938, pp. 5-6, pi. 1.— ScHMuyr, Publ. Field Mus. Nat. Hist, zool. ser., 



vol. 22, 1941, p. 498. 



Type.— Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. No. 5826. 



Type locality. — "Siam," in error. 



Range. — Central Veracruz on Atlantic slopes to Costa Rica, includ- 

 ing the Yucatan Peninsula and Cozumel Island (recorded in Mexico 

 from the states of Campeche, Chiapas, Puebla, Oaxaca, Quintana Roo, 

 Tabasco, Veracruz, Yucatan). 



THAMNOPHIS SAURITUS PROXIMUS (Say) 



Coluber proximus Say, Long's Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, vol. 1, 1823, p. 

 187. 



Thamnophis sauritus proximus Ruthven, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 61, 1908, pp. 98- 

 107 (part).— DiTMARS, Reptiles of North America, 1986, p. 138, pi. 39 (lower 

 fig.).— Smith, Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, No. 388, 1938, p. 6, pi. 1. 



Type. — Lost. 



Type locality. — Stone quarry on west side of Missouri River, 3 miles 

 above the mouth of Boyers River. 



Range. — Colorado to southern Wisconsin, south through Louisiana 

 and Texas to central Veracruz (known in Mexico from the states of 

 Coahuila, Nuevo Leon, San Luis Potosi, Tamaulipas, and Veracruz). 



