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back of tlie body is of a grayish clay color, with two rows of small ill- 

 defiiied black spots, oue ou each side of the median line. These s[)ots 

 gradually become still less distinct backwards and disappear on the 

 tail, which is more brown. On the sides some of the scales are dark- 

 edged, particularly on the anterior part of the body. The belly is pale 

 gray, with a dirty yellowish tinge.. The sides of the gastrosteges are 

 finely mottled with very small black dots,* The total length was 

 245 mm., the head and body 190 mm., and the tail 55 mm. 



I wish to call attention to the fact that the number of scale rows of 

 this specimen is 15, the same as in the one recently described l)y Dr. 

 O. P. Hayt as Storeria victa from Oklawaha River, Florida, some dis- 

 tance to the north of Kissimmee. In other respects my specimen shows 

 no special agreement with Hay's description or disagreement with that 

 of typical S. dekayi. With only these two specimens thus far ob- 

 tained in Florida the status of S. victa must remain doubtful, as it will 

 require more material to decide whether the difference in the scale 

 formula is constant or not. 



STORERIA OCCIPITOMACULATA, (Storer). 



Mr. S. Robinson, of Orlando, gave me, last April, a small red snake 

 which he had caught at Oklawaha River, 10 miles southeast from Ocala, 

 Marion County. The color of the living snake was as follows: Back, 

 uniform dark red or "cherry-red;" belly, salmon or rather minium- 

 colored; snout and anterior portion of head, brownish yellow; on the 

 upper part of the neck a yellow half collar; tip of snout and chin, 

 whitish; head underneath reddish, mottled with black; a narrow black 

 mottled stripe on each side extends along the upper part of the gas- 

 trosteges, but becomes more and more faint posteriorly until it is no 

 longer consi)icuous 20 mm. behind the head; a small light spot on the 

 fifth upper labial; mouth, brown; total length, 190 mm. In alcohol a 

 faint light stripe extends from the yellow collar some distance back- 

 wards, but soon disappears. Although the color seems to be more 

 brilliant than usual, I have no doubt it is a Storeria occipitomaculata^ 

 as the scutellation is the normal one of this species. 



TANTILLA CORONATA, Baird ami Giriird. 



In a rotten stump at Oakland I obtained a little Tantilla, and another 

 one in the neighborhood of Apopka, Orange County. The last-men- 

 tioned is a typical Tantilla coronata in most respects, only the color is a 

 little lighter than Baird & Girard describe it,f as it is light yellowish 

 gray, with a faint brown tinge along the back; below, whitish; head, 

 above dark brown with narrow yellowish collar. In this specimen the 



*See HoLBKOOK, J. E., North American Herpetology, 2 ed., iv, pi. xiv. 



t Science, xix, April 8, 1892, p. 199. 



} Baird and Girard, Catalogue of North American Reptiles, i, Ser])ents, p. 131. 



