34. LAMPROPELTIS 743 
less king snakes by coloration alone, since the red is next to 
the black in the harmless snakes and not in the poisonous 
species. 
165. Lampropeltis triangulum gentilis (Baird & Girard) 
WESTERN KING SNAKE 
Ophibolus gentilis Barrp & Girarp, Cat. N. Amer. Rept., Pt. 1, Serpents 
1853, p. 90 (type locality, North Fork, Red River, near Sweet- 
water Creek, Wheeler County, Texas); Barrp & Grrarp, 
Marcy’s Rep. Expl. Red River, Ex. Doc. House of Rep., 33rd. 
Congress, 1853 (1854), p. 229, pl. VIII; Barn, Pac. R. R. Surv., 
Vol. X, Pt. II, No. 1, 1859, pl. XXX, fig. 64; Mozrey, Trans. 
Kansas Acad. Sci., Vol. VI, reprint, 1906, p. 35. 
Lampropeltis doliata Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1860, p. 256 
(part). 
Lampropeltis multistriata Kennicott, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 
1860, p. 328 (type locality, Fort Lookout, South Dakota). 
Ophibolus multistriatus Corr, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 1, 1875, p- 
36; Cops, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Vol. XIV, 1891, p. 611. 
Ophibolus doliatus gentilis Cope, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 1, 1875, 
p- 36; Yarrow, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus., No. 24, 1883, p. 90; Brown, 
Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1g0r, p. 75; Cracin, Trans. Kansas 
Acad. Sci., Vol. VI, reprint, 1906, p. 118; Dirmars, Reptile Book, 
1907, pp- 340, 348, pl. 106, fig. 1; CockErELL, Univ. Colorado 
Studies, Vol. VII, No. 2, 1910, p. 131; Exrtis & Henperson, Univ. 
Colorado Studies, Vol. X, No. 2, 1913, p. 91, pl. IV, fig. 23; Exxis 
& Henperson, Univ. Colorado Bull., Vol. XV, No. 6, 1915, p. 
261; SrreckER, Baylor Bulletin, Vol. XVII, No. 4, 1915, p. 38. 
Ophibolus doliatus annulatus Yarrow, Surv. W. rooth Merid., Vol. V, 
1875, p. 537; YARRow, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 24, 1883, p. 90 
(part). 
Ophibolus multistriata Cours & Yarrow, Bull. U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr., 
Vol. IV, 1878, p. 284; Cope, Report U. S. Nat. Mus. for 1898, 
1900, p. 909, fig. 225. 
Ophibolus triangulus var. gentilis Garman, Mem. Mus. Compr. Zool., 
Cambr., Vol. VIII, No. 3, 1883, pp. 66, 155. 
Lampropeltis multistriata STEJNEGER, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Vol. XIV, 
1891, p. 502. 
