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or yellow; scales in 21 to 25 rows; superior labials 7: entire country 

 south of latitude 40; common. 



Subspecies of L. getulus 



L. g. getulus (L.). Color bands narrow, forking on the sides; 

 scales in 21 rows: New Jersey to the Gulf. 



L. g. Jiolbrooki Stejneger. Scales in 21 rows; a yellow spot on each 

 dorsal scale; no bands: Louisiana to Texas; northward to Illinois and 

 Wyoming. 



L. g. nigra (Yarrow). Scales in 21 rows; scales without light centers 

 or with very small ones: eastern Illinois to Ohio; southward into 

 Alabama. 



L. g. floridana Blanchard. Scales in 23 rows; cross bands more than 

 50. or not distinguishable: Florida. 



L. g. hoylii (Baird and Girard). Scales in 23 rows; color bands broad 

 and forming rings: western Arizona and Utah to California. 



L. g. caliJorni(E (Blainville) . Scales in 23 rows; a dorsal longitudinal 

 stripe either complete or interrupted: southern California. 



L. triangidum (Lacepede) (L. doliata L.). Length 860 mm.; tail 

 130 mm.; ground color gray or yellow, with a series of broad, black- 

 bordered red or brown bands or saddles occupying the dorsal and lateral 

 sides of the body; abdomen yellowish or red, with black spots alter- 

 nating irregularly with the bands; scales in 21 rows: eastern and central 

 States; westward into Texas, Kansas and Iowa; often common. 



Subspecies of L. triangulum 



L. t. syspila (Cope). Dorsal saddles i^^ to 35 in number: Ohio and 

 Tennessee to Iowa and Oklahoma. 



L. I. triangulum Lac. Milk-snake. Ground color gray, bands 

 much broken and brown or reddish: northern States; southward into 

 North Carolina; westward into Iowa. 



L. t. amaura Cope. Scarlet king-snake. Ground color yellow; 

 bands bright red, nearly encircling the body and about 20 in number: 

 IMississippi to Texas. 



L. t. gentilis (B. and G.). Bands dull red with black borders and 25 

 to 40 in number: Texas to Dakota. 



L. rhombomaculata (Holbrook). Length 830 mm.; tail iii mm.; 

 color light brown, with a series of about 55 chestnut lenticular dorsal 

 blotches, alternating with a series of smaller blotches on each side; 



