30 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ALABAMA 



General distribution : Same as given for type locality. 

 Alabama records : None. 



GENUS: DRYMARCHON, Fitzinger. 



DRYMARCHON CORAIS COUPERI (Holbrook) Strecker 



(Spilotes or Ccmpsosoma, Cope) 



Indigo-Snake, Gopher-Snake 



Type locality: Dry pine hills south of the Altamaha, 

 Georgia. 



General distribution : Carolinas to Florida and west- 

 ward to Texas. 



Alabama records : Satsuma, Mobile County. 



The writer has seen several specimens on the sandy 

 palmetto covered hills at Grand Bay, Mobile County, but 

 has never been able to capture a specimen. 



GENUS: PITUCPHIS, Holbrook. (Also spelled Pityophis.) 



PITUOPHIS MELANOLEUCUS (Daudin) Holbrook 



(black form) 



Black Bull-Snake, Pine-Snake 



Type locality of species : South Carolina and Florida. 



Type locality of black form : Southwestern part of 

 Mobile County. 



General distribution : Pine barrens of southern New 

 Jersey to Florida and Alabama 



Alabama records: Abott's Station, Grand Bay, and 

 Irvington, Mobile County. 



A harmless, docile and very useful species. 



In this connection the following note and description 

 by Dr. F. N. Blanchard in Copeia (No. 81, New York, 

 April, 192'^'), are of importance. 



A Black Pituophis 



My friend, Mr. H. P. Lodinr?, of Mobile, Alabama, recently sent 

 me for examination a large Pituophis, remarkable for being uni- 

 formly black above and below, except for a little rusty color on 

 the anterior part of the head and flecks of rust on the ends of 

 some of the ventral scales. 



This is apparently the first example of its genus to be reported 

 from Alabama, and, so far as I know, there are no records for 

 Georgia, Mississippi, and Louisiana. This specimen was found 

 dead on the Hall's Mill Road, in the vicinity of high sandy hills 



