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races. Nevertheless Mr. Blanchard has at the U. S. National 

 Museum a king snake from Florida, with no more definite data, 

 which is rather intermediate between hrooksi and floridana. I 

 have seen true L. getulus getulus from northern Florida, and 

 typical floridana from but Uttle further south; so it is not im- 

 probable, in spite of the certainty of all these snakes being de- 

 rived from the same stock, that a binomial designation would 

 not be more fitting. It is a current custom among systematists 

 to assume that intergradation between closely similar forms 

 must exist, when in reality it is not often definitely demonstrated. 



