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lieve that he has stated the true status of the case, 

 i. e., that the Coronella sayi Schlegel is the snake 

 that we know as Pityophis catenifer sayi Schlegel. 

 The speckled king snake inhabits the greater portion 

 of the area of Texas, but some of the published lo- 

 cality records doubtless refer to Ophibolus splendidus 

 Cope, and on this account it would be a difficult mat- 

 ter at this time to define the limits of its Texan 

 range. It occurs throughout the entire eastern sec- 

 tion and as far west as the foot of the plains. South- 

 ward, it is found in Burnet, Bexar and Refugio 

 Counties. Most of these southern specimens have 

 many of the color characters of splendidus and I sus- 

 pect that Brown's Pecos specimens belong to that 

 species. 



118. Ophibolus splendidus Cope. Splendid King Snake. 



Cope and Stejneger record specimens in the Na- 

 tional collection from Pecos River and San Diego. 

 Dr. Stejneger says that this form seems to skirt the 

 Mexican border pretty closely. The majority of the 

 specimens in collections are from Southern Arizona 

 and New Mexico. 



119. Ophibolus alternus A. E. Brown. Davis Mountain 



King Snake. 



Known only from the type specimen collected in 

 the Davis Mountains, Jeff Davis County. 



120. Farancia abacura Holbrook. Horn Snake. 



Mr. J. D. Mitchell collected a specimen of this 

 snake at Victoria in 1909. It had not previously 

 been reported from the State. It probably occurs in 

 all the swamp and bayou counties of the eastern and 

 southeastern sections. 



121. Virginia elegans Kennicott. Virginia's Snake. 



Eastern and Central Texas. Reported by Cope 

 from Dallas, Helotes, Kerrville and Liberty Hill, Wil- 

 liamson County. I have it from Lindale, Smith 



