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Oct. 22, 1921 Vol. VII, pp. 117-118 



PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



NEW ENGLAND ZOOLOGICAL CLUB 



THE FLORIDA PINE SNAKE 



BY THOMAS BARBOUR 



An examination of the pine snakes from the eastern sea- 

 board States reveals the fact that Daudin's old name Coluber 

 melanoleucus, based on the pine snake of Bartram, which he 

 speaks of as being ''pied black and white," includes two different 

 forms at least. Bartram travelled in both CaroHna and Florida, 

 and these regions constitute the type locaUty for the species. 

 Bartram, however, makes no mention of actually having seen 

 pine snakes in both of the regions he visited, and as the pine 

 snakes which I have seen from South Carolina and New Jersey 

 are 'pied black and white,' I propose to restrict Daudin's name 

 to this black form, to stand as Pituophis melanoleucus melano- 

 leucus Daudin, with the type locality Carolina. 



Florida specimens are brown-pied, not black-, and have a larger 

 number of scale rows and on the average a higher number of 

 combined ventrals and subcaudals. This race may be called 



Pituophis melanoleucus mugitus subsp. nov. 



Type, M.C.Z. no. 15,525, adult male, from spruce-pine ridges, ten miles 

 north of West Palm Beach, Florida; T. and R. Barbour, collectors, 1919. 



Similar to P. m. melanoleucus, but heavily washed and pied with rusty 

 brown, not black. Ventrals and subcaudals of Florida examples average 



