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Mr. J. E. Richardson reports he found it near Sumner, Pine 
Hill and north of Point Pleasant in Camden county, and Garden 
Lake in Atlantic county. 
Cemophora coccinea (Blumenbach). 
PLATE 60. 
Scarlet Snake. 
Body slender, rigid and cylindrical. Gastrosteges 160 to 170. 
Color in life crimson, yellowish below, and about 20 to 26 black 
rings, each enclosing yellow one. 
A small snake, abundant in Florida, and only known in our 
limits by Harlan’s record, which has been overlooked by most 
writers. I omitted it in last year’s report being under the im- 
pression that it was not definitely recorded from New Jersey 
limits. It is here mentioned simply to complete published 
information, however, open to question. Harlan says “inhabits 
South Carolina, feeding on grasshoppers and other insects. Re- 
ceived a specimen from Mr. B. Say, New Jersey, September, 
1827.” This does not leave it altogether clear that Say’s specimen 
_ did come from New Jersey. However, the animal should perhaps 
be provisionally admitted to the fauna, as in the case of a number 
of others. It appears closely related to Lampropeltis, differing in 
the absence of the loreal plate and having fewer scales in a trans- 
verse series over the back (19 as compared with 21 to 25 in 
Lampropeltis ). 
Coluber coccineus Harlan, Med. Phys. Res., 1835 p. 119. 
Family CROTALIDE. 
Crotalus horridus Linnzus. 
Rattlesnake. 
Mr. J. A. G. Rehn has reports of a large one killed near Hol- 
mansville, in Ocean county, early in July of 1907, and another 
killed near New Gretna in Burlington county a little earlier. 
It is said to be local through northern Ocean county, between 
South Lakewood and Van Hiseville. Mr. Rehn also says they 
have not been seen about Stafford’s Forge during the last to 
