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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 cocci nea (Blumenbach). 



Plate 69. 



Scarlet Snake. 



Body slender, rigid and cylindrical. Gastrosteges 160 to 170. 

 Color in life crimson, 5^ellowish 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' comiplete 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 CROTALID^. 



Crotalus horridus Linnaeus. 



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 10 



