CROCODILIANS, LIZARDS, AND SNAKES. 

 Sioreria dekayi Jlolbrook — Coiitiuuod. 



1003 



n„4.„i„„„„ Number 

 Catalogue ^f ap^ci. 



mens. 



Locality. 



"Wlien 

 collected. 



From whom received. 



Xature of 

 specimeu. 



427 

 2130 

 1944 



5199 

 4814 

 1860 



8983 

 8939 

 8951 

 4900 



10654 

 10211 



12028 

 2275 

 11823 

 15377 

 15577 

 17058-9 

 17282-7 



17447-54 



17563-4 



17699 



17966 



17967 

 21683 



New Tort 



Leo.anou, Indiana 



Mount Aubiini, Massa- 



cllUSC'tts. 



Graii'l ( 'oiitiau, Louisiana 



ISoutiicrn Illinoia 



Fraiuingliam, Massachu- 

 setts. 



Kins ton, North Carolina. . 



Orizat'.i, Mi'xico 



Ferry Landing. Yirginia. . 



WashiiiKtou, District of 

 Columbia. 



Wheatland, Indiana 



St. James Parish, Louisi- 

 ana. 



Mount Carmel, Illinois 



Port Huron, Michigan 



Old Fort Cobb 



New Orleans, Louisiana . . 



Cherokee, North Carolina. 



Cameron County, Texas . . 



Washington, District of 

 Columbia. 



do 



do 



New Braunfels, Texas . . . . 



Cumberland Gap, Ten- 

 nessee. 



IrvingtoD, Indiana 



Grand Ilapids, Ohio 



S. B. Davis 



Dr. C. Girard . . . 



May 29,1875 



R. Kennicott 



Capt. S. Van Vliet, U. S. 

 A. 



J. W. Milner - 



Prof. F. Sumiehrast 



H.W. Welsher 



Dr. W. Stimpsou 



Apr. — , 1881 

 May —,1879 



Nov. — , 1881 



Robert Ridgway 



( ). de la Peichardi^re . 



L. M. Turner 



S. F. Baird 



E. Palmer 



Dr. K.W.Shufeldt 

 James Mooney .... 



C.K. Worthen 



C.W.Richmond... 



J. D. Figgins 



R.W.Brown 



U. S. Fish Commission 

 O.P.Hay 



-do. 



U. S. Fish Commission 



Alcoholic, 

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This species is not readily exterminated by the increase of popula- 

 tion; its fecundity, obscure colors, and small size protecting it. A 

 vacant lot on the outskirts of Philadelphia has been noted as a place 

 for finding them, and the boys that know can generally procure speci- 

 mens there when they are desired. 



STORERIA OCCIPITOMACULATA Storer. 



Storeria ocdintomaculata Baiud and Girakd, Cat. N. Amer. Eept.,-Pt. 1, Sorp., 

 18.')3, p. lo7. — Coi'E, Check-list N. Amer. Batr. Rept., 1875, p. 42. 



Tropidonoiiis oecipitomaculatiis Storeu, Rep. Rept. Ma.'^s., 1830, p. 230. 



IscluiognailniH occipiiomacKlatiis GrxTHEu, Cat. Colubr. Snakes Brit. Mus., 1858, 

 p. Gl.— BouLENGER, Cat. Snakes Brit. Mtis., I, 1893, p. 287. 



Coluber veuHSluH Hallowkll, I'loc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., Ill, 1847, p. 274; VI, 

 1849, p. 245. 



Orbitals, two anterior, two posterior. Dorsal scales in 15 rows. 

 Above gray, or chestnut-brown, sometimes with a paler vertebral line; 

 beneath red or salmon-color. Three distinct light-colored spots behind 

 the head and a smaller one on the fourth and fifth upper labial. 



Xostril almost entirely iu the prenasal jilate, in some cases the post- 

 nasal not entering at all into it. Si.v upi)or hibials, eye over third and 

 fourth, all higher than long except the fiftli and sixth. The fifth is 

 about twice as long as high, and the sixth is rather shorter. Tempo- 

 rals 1-2, the first pointed i)osterioily and extending over more than half 

 of tlie sixth superior labial. Lower labials 7, fourth and fifth of equal 

 length, but fifth wider. Pregeneials longer than postgeneials, the latter 

 bounded by first gastrostege, which is never divided. Vertical plate 



