278 Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History. 



Dorsal scales in 15 rows S. ocoipitomaoulata. 



Dorsal scales in 17 rows S. dekayi. 



Storeria occipitomaculata, Storer. 



Tropidoiiotiis occipito-inacahitas. 8torer, Rep. Kept. Mass., 1839, 



p. 230. 

 Colfibi^r ()ccij)ito-nu(culattis, Storer, Best. Jour. Nat. Hist., 1840, 



III., p. 33. 

 CoJaber neiiv.sta.s, Hallowell, Proc. Acad. Nat. tSci. Phila., 184(5-47, 



III., p. 278. 

 tSfoieria orcij)ito-/iiaciil(/t((,'Bd. and Gir., Cat. N. A. Kept., Pt. I., 



1853, p. 137.— Kenn., Trans. 111. State Agr. See, 1853-54, 1., 



p. 592. 

 Storeria occipitoiii(/ciitt(t(i,T>a.Y\s and Rice, Bull. III. State Lab. 



Nat. Hist.. I., No. 5, 1883, p. 40; Bull. Chicago Acad. Sci., 



1883.— S. Garman. Mem. Mus. Comp. ZoOl., 1883, pp. 30, 143, 



pl. 1, fig. 2. 



Small. Body tapering to the extremities. Head small. 

 Tail short. All the dorsal scales carinated. Rostral plate ex- 

 cavated below; its anterior face convex. Frontal hexagonal, 

 sides converging posteriorly. Two anteorbitals. Two postor- 

 bitals. Six or seven supralabials. Seven infralabials; the 

 fourth and fifth largest. Dorsal rows fifteen. Ventrals 117- 

 128. Anal divided. Subcaudals 43-52. 



Olive or chestnut-brown above, uniform, or with a dorsal 

 ash-gray stripe, and a similar stripe on the outer rows of dorsal 

 scales, the latter more obscure than the dorsal stripe, or want- 

 ing altogether. Beneath salmon-red, fading anteriorly into light 

 gray. External margins of the ventral scutes gray; the ante- 

 rior scutes with distinct blackish submarginal spots, forming a 

 longitudinal series for each side. Head above reddish brown, 

 faintly iridescent, with three occipital pale spots, the median 

 much the largest. Fifth supralabial pale. 



Total length of an adult female, 11.:) I; tail, 2.44. 



Occurs everywhere within our limits. Not common. Cook 

 county (Kennicott), Peoria (Brendel), Normal, Belleville 

 (Nat. Mus.), Anna. 



Storeria dekayi, Holbr. 



Tn>j)((l(ni<)fiis dekdi/i. Holbr., N. A. Herp., 1842, IV., p. 53, pl. 14.— 

 De Kay, Nat. Hist., N. Y., I., Zool. III., Rept. and Amph., 

 1842, p. 4(i. pl. 14, fig. 80. 



