148 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 
Genus RecinaA Baird and Girard. 
The Leather Snakes. 
Regina leberis (Linnzeus). 
PLATE 32. 
Leather Snake. Yellow Bellied Water Snake. 
Scales all keeled, about 19 in a transverse dorsal series. Gas- 
trosteges 140 to 150. Postorbital plates 2. Color chestnut- 
= 
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Leather Snake. Regina leberis (Linneus). 
CQ 
brown in life. A yellow lateral band and 3 narrow black dorsal 
stripes. Belly yellow with 2 brown bands. Length 24 inches. 
I have not seen any examples from within the State. Hol- 
brook stated it ranges into our limits, and is followed by Dr. 
Abbott, though it is possible that the latter’s Tropidonotus leberis 
was an error for Thamnophis saurita. Dr. Abbott told me how- 
ever that it was not common about Trenton, and is only found 
occasionally. It did not appear to him to differ much in habits 
from Natrix sipedon. It is said to live most of the time in the 
