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General distribution : North Carolina to Florida and 

 Alabama. 



Alabama records : Mobile County, not uncommon in 

 low cut-over pine lands under logs in early spring. 



GENUS: LAMPROPELTIS, Fitzinger.* 



LAMPROPELTIS ELAPSOIDES (Holbrook) Stejneger & Barbour 

 (Osceola elapsoidea, Baird & Girard) 

 Scarlet King Snake, Osceola Snake, Thunder Snake 



Type locality: South Carolina and Georgia. 



General distribution : North Carolina to Florida and 

 west to New Orleans. 



Alabama records : Mobile, Russell and Tuscaloosa 

 counties. 



Usually found early in the spring under logs and bark 

 of dead pine trees. 



LAMPROPELTIS GETULUS GETULUS (Linne) Cope 



(Ophibolus, Cope) 



King-Snake, Chain-Snake 



Type locality : Carolina. 



General distribution : New Jersey to Central Florida 

 west into Alabama. 



Alabama records: Talladega and Baldwin counties. 

 A useful species. 



LAMPROPELTIS GETULUS HOLBROOKI, Stejneger 

 (Ophibolus getuhis sayi, Cope) 



Type locality: Valley of the Mississippi. 

 General distribution : Western Alabama to Central 

 Texas ; north to Illinois and Indiana. 



Alabama records: Mobile and Tuscaloosa counties. 



LAMPROPELTIS GETULUS NIGER, (Yarrow) 



Type location : Wheatland, Indiana. 

 General distribution : Indiana to Northern Alabama. 

 Alabama records: Colbert, Etowah, Calhoun, and Tal- 

 ladega counties. 



*An exhaustive treatise of this genus may be found in Bull. 114, 

 U. S. Nat. Mus.: A Revision of the King Srrakes, by Frank N. 

 Blanchard, 1921. 



