10 BARBOUR — HERPETOLOGICAL NOTES Pv^i^VlF' 



mountains of North Carolina had entirely unspotted bellies, 

 and for the others he does not mention the large conspicuous 

 blotches seen on those from the Southern lowlands. 



The Northern race .far exceeds the Southern in size. The 

 largest example in the Museum of Comparative Zoology is from 

 Tupper Lake, New York, T. Barbour collector, and measures 

 425 mm. in total length; • while from the South few e^xceed the 

 largest in the M. C. Z. series from Fort Lauderdale, Brevard Co., 

 Florida, T. Barbour and Harrison W, Smith collectors, which 

 measures 270 mm. in total length. 



It is just possible that these snakes may be still further 

 divided, but the material at hand is not convincing on this 

 point. Ring-neck snakes from peninsular Florida are very 

 brilliantly colored when alive; and if compared with living 

 material from the Carolinas and Georgia it is by no means im- 

 possible that they would prove to show characters by which 

 they could invariably be distinguished. 



On Leiocephalus raviceps 



For some years past I have spent much of my time in Cuba, 

 and finally I collected what I knew of the Cuban reptiles and 

 amphibians, together with information sent me from time to 

 time by my friend Ramsden, and feeling that it was unlikely 

 that I might explore further in Cuba for a long time, I published 

 'The Herpetology of Cuba' (Barbour and Ramsden, Mem. 

 M. C. Z., 47, 1919, p. 71-213, pi. 1-15). On p. 173, discussing 

 raviceps, the status of the species was summed up by saying 

 " All things considered, it is by no means impossible that the 

 types of raviceps came from some one of the Bahamas and were 

 credited to the Wright collection from Cuba by mistake." All 

 this, because neither Ramsden nor I had succeeded in finding the 

 species and I knew it only from the soft and discolored types. 



This spring, in looking over some small collections that had 

 accumulated in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, to my 



