AMPHIBIANS AND REPTILES. 157 
keeled, and keels extending down on sides, more or less obsolete 
along lowermost series. ‘Transversely over back 15 series of 
scales, and 163 counted from parietal plates to tip of tail. Gas- 
trosteges 111 to vent. Tail tapering gradually to a slender point, 
about 4 in entire body. Color in alcohol uniform dull olivaceous- 
gray above. Sides of body along each outer portion of gastro- 
steges dull plumbeous-gray, finely speckled or dotted with dusky. 
Gastrosteges otherwise dull brownish-white. Along each side of 
neck anteriorly a deep dusky spot on outer portions of gastro- 
steges, which soon gives way posteriorly to specks in lateral 
streak. Lower surface of head grayish. Just behind parietal 
plates, and scales after second series of temporals, a series of 
3 ill-defined creamy-white blotches over back of neck, 1 median 
at occiput and another on each side not interrupting grayish 
streak along side. Urosteges like belly in color, and line of de- 
marcation along sides of tail very distinct. Iris pale slaty. 
Length 7% inches. Bear Swamp, Burlington County. Novem- 
ber Ist, 1903. Witmer Stone. 
The above described example is the only one I have seen. Dr. 
Abbott tells me it is common above Trenton, and was not found 
about his residence, but along the rocky portions of the Assan- 
pink Creek. It is entirely harmless and inoffensive, and may 
usually be met with in dry woods on the ground. It is also 
variable in color, the white on the neck suggesting the ring neck 
snake. ~ 
Storeria occipitomaculata Ditmars, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. Y., 
1895-96, No. 8, p. 22.—Stone, Am. Nat., XL, 1906, p. 164. 
Storeria dekayi (Holbrook). 
PLATE 36. 
DeKay’s Brown Snake. Brown Snake. DeKay’s Snake. 
Spotted Snake. Spotted Adder. 
Head scarcely distinct from body or without constriction at 
neck, ovoid as seen above, and sides hardly swollen posteriorly. 
Snout rather obtuse, convex, its length about 1% in its width, and 
