34. LAMPROPELTIS 



172. Lampropeltis calif orniae (Blainville) 



California Milk Snake 



Plate 83 



Coluber {Ophis) California Blainville, Nouv. Ann. du Mus., Vol. IV, 



1835, p. 292, pi. XXVII, figs, i-ib (type locality, California); 



Baird & GiRARD, Cat. N. Amer. Rept., Pt. i, Serp., 1853, p. 153. 

 Coronella California Dumerii. & Bibron, Erpet. Gener., Vol. VII, I 85+, 



p. 623. 

 Coronella getulus var. calif ornica Jan, Elenco Sist. degli Ofidi, 1863, p. 47; 



Jan, Iconogr. Gener. Ophid., 14e livr., 1865, pi. 5, fig. 3. 

 Ophibolus California Cope, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. i, 1875, p. 37; 



Cope, Report U. S. Nat. Mus. for 1898, 1900, pi. XIX, fig. 8. 

 Ophibolus getulus eiseni Yarrow, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Vol. V, 1882, 



p. 439 (type locality, Fresno, California); Yarrow, Bull. U. S. 



Nat. Mus., No. 24, 1883, p. 94. 

 Ophibolus getulus California Garman, Mem. Mus. Compr. Zool., Cambr., 



Vol. VIII, No. 3, 1883, p. 157; Cope, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Vol. 



XIV, 1892, p. 614; Cope, Report U. S. Nat. Mus. for 1898, 1900, 



p. 922, fig. 231; Brown, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila. 1901, p. 78; 



D;tmars, Reptile Book, 1907, pp. 341, 363. 

 Coronella getula Boulenger, Cat. Snakes Brit. Mus., Vol. II, 1894, 



p. 197 (part). 

 Lampropeltis California Van Denburgh, Occas. Papers Cal. Acad. Sci., 



V, 1897, p. 172, fig.; McLain, Critical Notes, 1899, p. 11; Van 



Denburgh, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., Ser. 4, Vol. 3, 191 2, pp. 149, 



151; Grinnell & Camp, Univ. Cal. Publ. Zool., Vol. 17, No. 10, 



1 91 7, p. 187; Stejneger & Barbour, Check List N. Amer. Amph. 



Rept., 1917, p. 87; Hall & Grinnell, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., Ser. 4, 



Vol. 9, No. 2, 1919, p. 54; Stephens, Trans. San Diego Soc. Nat. 



Hist., Vol. Ill, No. 4, 1921, p. 64; Van Denburgh & Slevin, Proc. 



Cal. Acad. Sci., Ser. 4, Vol. XI, 1921, p. 52; Nelson, Mem. Nat. 



Acad. Sci., Vol. XVI, 1921, p. 114. 

 Lampropeltis California California Blanchard, Occas. Papers Mus. Zool. 



Univ. Michigan, No. 87, 1920, pp. 3, -; Blanchard, Bull. U. S. 



Nat. Mus., No. 114, 1921, p. 94, fig. 22. 



Description. — Similar to L. g. boylii in everything but 

 color. Top of head slightly flattened posteriorly, curving 

 downward to broad rounded snout. Temporal regions rarely 



