BRANSON : SNAKES OP KANSAS. 



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Fig. n. 

 Natrix ^rahamii B. and G. 



The following are the dimensions and scutellation of five 

 specimens from Douglas county in the Kansas University 

 museum : 



Color light brown above, with a sepia brown stripe on the 

 three dorsal rows of scales. The first three rows of scales are 

 cream color, darkened by many minute spots. There is a 

 narrow black stripe on the margin between the first row of 

 dorsal scales and the gastrosteges. In some specimens there 

 is an interrupted stripe on the middle of the belly. Top of 

 head dark brown to black. Temporal region black. Superior 

 labials whitish, ui)per margins darker. Inferior labials, under 

 part of head and belly cream-buti\ 



This snake is quite numerous in the eastern part of Kansas. 

 None have been reported from west of Junction City. In the 

 collections that I have examined in the middle western part of 

 the state 1 have found none of them, and I think it probable 

 that they do not occur west of the Republican river. I have 

 examined specimens from Douglas, Shawnee, Montgomery, 

 Lyon and Johnson counties. Cragiu reports it from Woodson 

 county. 



