682 REPTILES—COLUBRIDZ. 
REGINA LEBERIS Linneus. 
Yellow-bellied or Leather Snake. 
Coluber leberis, LINNZUS, GMELIN, KALM, SHAW, DAUDIN. 
Coluber septemvittatum, SAY, HARLAN. 
Tropidonotus leberis, HOLBROOK, DeKay, DUMERIL and BIBRON, GUNTHER, COPE. 
Regina leberis, BAIRD and GIRARD. 
Color olive-brown above, beneath yellow, with four longitudinal bands of greenish- 
brown, of these bands the two inner at times looking somewhat like series of dots; the 
yellow upon the sides appears as bands above the browu ; sides of vertical plates 
parallel, the plate itself being hexagonal, with the posterior apex more acute than the 
anterior; anteorbitals two; upper labials seven, lower eight; inframaxillaries reaching 
to the end of the sixth lower labial; postorbitals over the fourth and fifth upper labials , 
dorsal scales 19; gastrosteges 140-150 ; urosteges 65-80; yellow bands upon the sides on 
first and second rows of scales; tail moderately long, becoming unicolor by the con- 
fluence of the lines. Length, 22 inches; head, # inch; tail, 5} inches; transverse 
diameter of head, 4 inch; of neck, 7-16 inch; circumference of body, 12% inches. 
Habitat, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, Tennessee, 
Michigan, Ohio, and Illinois. 
In the State I have specimens from Highland county, and also from 
Columbus. It is aquatic, and probably occurs elsewhere, though it 
is not very common. 
REGINA KIRTLANDII Kennicott. 
Little Red Snake. 
Regina kirtlandiit, KENNICOTT, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil., 1865. p. 75. 
Tropidoclonion kirtlandii, Corr, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil., 1860, p. 340. 
General color above purplish brown, with four rows of sub-circular to triangular 
blotches, the outer larger than the inner, being from two to five scales in width; color 
beneath brick red, witha well defined series of dark blotches near the exterior of the 
scutell~; dorsal scales in 19 rows, all carinate; vertical plate hexagonal, the posterior 
angle more acute, the sides nearly parallel ; anteorbitals one on each side; nasals one, 
with an indented line giving it the appearance of two; upper labials six, lower 
seven ; postorbitals above the fourth upper labials, and inframaxillaries reaching to sixth 
lower iabials; gastrosteges 130-135; urosteges 55-60; post-abdominal scutella bifid. 
Length 174 inches ; head, } inch; tail, 44 inches; transverse diameter of head, 5-16 inch; 
of neck 4 inch; circumference of body, 14 inches. 
Habitat, New Jersey, Ohio, Michigan, and Illinois. 
Regina kirtlandii is a terrestrial animal, being found in woods, gen- 
erally under old logs. It is sluggish, not very pugnacious, and in the 
State has been detected in Columbus. 
In naming this species, Mr. Kennicott pays the following compli- 
ment to the Ohio Herpetologist: ‘In giving to this serpent the name 
