COLUBRIDJE 



141. Diadophis amabilis Baird & Girard 



Western Ring-neck Snake 



Plate 61 



Diadophis amabilis Baird & Girard, Cat. N. Amer. Rept., Pt. I, Ser- 

 pents, 1853, p. 113 (type locality, San Jose, Cal.); Baird, Rep. 

 Pac. R. R. Surv., Vol. X, 1859, Pt. Ill, pi. XXXIII, figs. 83; Van 

 Denburgh, Occas. Papers Cal. Acad. Sci., V, 1897, p. 164, figs.; 

 Cope, Report, U. S. Nat. Mus., for 1898, 1900, p. 746 (part); 

 Brown, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1901, p. 70 (part); Grinnell 

 & Grinnell, Throop Institute Bulletin, No. XXXV, 1907, p. 38; 

 DiTMARS, Reptile Book, 1907, p. 337; Grinnell, Univ. Cal. Publ. 

 Zool., Vol. 5, No. I, 1908, p. 164; HuRTER, First Ann. Rep. Laguna 

 Marine Lab., 1912, p. 67; Atsatt, Univ. Cal. Publ. Zool., Vol. \1, 

 No. 3, 1913, p. 41; RuTHLiNG, Copeia, No. 15, 1915; Grinnell & 

 Camp, Univ. Cal. Publ. Zool., Vol. 17, No. 10, 1917, p. 184; Stej- 

 neger & Barbour, Check List N. Amer. Amph. Rept., 1917, p. 

 75; Cowles, Journ. Entomol. & Zool. Pomona College, Vol. XII, 

 No. 3, 1920, p. 66; Stephens, Trans. San Diego Soc. Nat. Hist., 

 Vol. Ill, No. 4, 1921, p- 64. 



Diadophis pulchellus Baird & Girard, Cat. N. Amer. Rept., Pt. I, 

 Serp., 1853, p. 115 (type locality. El Dorado Co., Cal.); Baird, 

 Rep. Pac. R. R. Surv., Vol. X, 1859, Pt. Ill, pi. XXXIII, figs. 

 85, and Pt. IV, No. 4, p. 11; Stejneger, N. Amer. Fauna, No. 7, 

 1893, p. 203. 



Ablates punctatus {pulchellus) Hallowell, U. S. Pac. R. R. Surv., 

 Vol. X, 1859, Pt. IV, No. I, p. 24. 



Diadophis punctatus pulchellus Cope, Proc. .'^cad. Nat. Sci. Phila., i860, 

 p. 250; Jan, Elenco syst. degli Ofidi, 1863, p. 49; Jan, Iconogr. 

 g6n6r Ophid., I5e livr., 1866, pi. VI, fig. 3; Cope, Proc. Acad. 

 Nat. Sci. Phila., 1883, p. 27; Townsend, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 Vol. 10, 1887, p. 239. 



Diadophis punctatus Cooper, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., Vol. IV, 1870, p. 71. 



Diadophis punctatus amabilis Cope, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. i, 1875, 

 p. 37 (part); Garman, Mem. Mus. Compr. Zool., Cambr., Vol. 

 VIII, 1883, p. 159; Yarrow, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., 24, 1883, p. 

 95 (part); Townsend, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1887, p. 239. 



Diadophis modestus Bocourt, Miss. Sci. Mex., 1886, p. 623 (type locality , 

 California). 



