25. CHARINA 641 



Distribution. The Rubber Snake, or Two-headed Snake 

 as it is often called because of its blunt tail, is not rare in the 

 moister portions of California, Oregon, Washington, and 

 western Nevada. It usually is found in or near coniferous 

 woods. 



In California, it seems to be restricted to the coast region 

 and the Sierra Nevada and has not been found south of 

 Tulare County. It has been taken in Siskiyou (near Mount 

 Shasta), Lassen (south base of Mount Lassen, Eagle Lake), 

 Nevada (Donner Lake), Placer (Red Point, Summit Soda 

 Springs, Cisco, Tahoe City), El Dorado (Strawberry Valley, 

 Fyffe, Mount Tallac, Fallen Leaf Lake), Calaveras (Moke- 

 lumne Hill), Mariposa (Yosemite Valley), Fresno (Fresno, 

 Huntington Lake), Tulare (Redwood Canyon East Fork 

 Kaweah River), Humboldt (Humboldt Bay), Trinity (Cof- 

 fee Creek), Mendocino (Comptche), Sonoma (Russian 

 River near Rio Campo), Marin (Point Reyes, three miles 

 west from Inverness, Sausalito, Mt. Tamalpais), Alameda 

 (Berkeley, Temescal, Oakland), San Francisco (Presidio), 

 San Mateo (Halfmoon Bay), Santa Clara (Palo Alto, 

 Black Mountain), Santa Cruz, (Big Basin, Santa Cruz, So- 

 quel), and Monterey (Carmel), counties. >, 



In Nevada, it has been secured on the Humboldt River, 

 at the big Bend of the Truckee River, and in Ormsby 

 County and at Glenbrook, Douglas County. 



In Oregon, it has been taken in Lake (Summer Lake), 

 Douglas (Drain), Lane (Blue River, McKenzie Bridge), 

 Marion (Salem), and Clackamas (Milwaukee), counties, 

 and in the Upper Willamette Valley between Portland and 

 Salem, the John Day Valley, and at Bourne. Specimens 

 have also been collected in Baker County, and near Wallowa 

 Lake, Wallowa County, but I do not know whether they 

 are of this subspecies or C. bottce utahensis. 



In Washington, it has been secured in King (Seattle), 



