OPHIDIA. 
COLUBRIDAE. 
16. (1). Carphophiops amoenus, Say 
Ground snake; Worm snake. 
Carphophis amoena, Dumeril and Bibron, Gunther, Boulenger. 
Coluber amoenus, Say, Cope, Storer. 
Calamaria amoena, Schlegel. 
Brachyorrhos amoenus, Holbrook, 
Celuta amoena, Baird and Girard. 
Celuta helenac, Neniicott. 
Length 12 inches. Head very small. Color above uni- 
form, clossy, chestnut brown, abdomen salmon color. 
Damp situations, under logs, stones or collections of leaves. 
Recorded from Scituate and Prov., R. I. R. W. P. Coll., 
one specimen. 
17. (2). Diadophis punctatus, Linnaeus. 
Ring-necked snake. 
Coluber punctatus, Linnaeus, Daudin, Harlan, Storer, Hol- 
brook, DeKay. 
Coluber torquatus, Shaw. 
Calamaria punctata, Schlegel. 
Ablabes punctatus, Dumeril and Bibron, Gunther. 
Diadophis occipitalis, Cope. 
Diadophis dysopes, Cope. 
Ablabes occipitalis, Gunther. 
Coronella punctata, Boulenger. 
Diadophis punctatus, Baird and Girard, Cope, Jan, Garman, 
Bocoutrt. 
Length 15 inches. Color above bluish black, without spots ; 
abdomen yellowish orange, with a medial series of black spots, 
these spots sometimes absent : a yellowish ring in occipital re- 
gion. 
Under logs and stones. R. W. P. Coll., six specimens. 
(3). Heterodon platyrhinus, Latreille. 
Hog-nosed snake ; Blowing adder. 
Coluber heterodon, Daudin, Harlan. 
Coluber cacodaemon, Shaw. 
Scyiale mger, Daudin, Harian. 
Pelias niger, Merrem. 
Heterodon niger, Troost, Holbrook, Baird and Girard, Du- 
meril and Bibron. 
Heterodon cognatus, Baird and Girard. 
Heterodon atmodes, Baird and Girard. 
Heterodon platyrhinus, Holbrook, Dumeril and ot, Baird 
and Girard, Cope, Boulenger. 
