34. LAMPROPELTIS 74-3 



less king snakes by coloration alone, since the red is next to 

 the black in the harmless snakes and not in the poisonous 

 species. 



165. Lampropeltis triangulum gentilis (Baird & Girard) 

 WESTERN KING SNAKE , 



Ophibolus gentilis BAIRD & GIRARD, Cat. N. Amer. Rept., Pt. i, Serpents 

 1853, p. 90 (type locality, North Fork, Red River, near Sweet- 

 water Creek, Wheeler County, Texas); BAIRD & GIRARD, 

 Marcy's Rep. Expl. Red River, Ex. Doc. House of Rep., 33rd. 

 Congress, 1853 (1854), p. 229, pi. VIII; BAIRD, Pac. R. R. Surv., 

 Vol. X, Pt. Ill, No. i, 1859, pi. XXX, fig. 64; MOZLEY, Trans. 

 Kansas Acad. Sci., Vol. VI, reprint, 1906, p. 35. 



Lampropcltif doliata COPE, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1860, p. 256 

 (part). 



Lampropeltis multistriata KENNICOTT, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 

 1860, p. 328 (type locality, Fort Lookout, South Dakota). 



Ophibolus muhistriatus COPE, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. i, 1875, P- 

 36; COPE, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Vol. XIV, 1891, p. 611. 



Ophibolus doliatus gentilis COPE, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. I, 1875, 

 p. 36; YARROW, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 24, 1883, p. 90; BROWN, 

 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1901, p. 75; CRAGIN, Trans. Kansas 

 Acad. Sci., Vol. VII, reprint, 1906, p. 118; DITMARS, Reptile Book, 

 1907, pp. 340, 348, pi. 106, fig. i; COCKERELL, Univ. Colorado 

 Studies, Vol. VII, No. 2, 1910, p. 131; ELLIS & HENDERSON, Univ. 

 Colorado Studies, Vol. X, No. 2, 1913, p. 91, pi. IV, fig. 23; ELLIS 

 & HENDERSON, Univ. Colorado Bull., Vol. XV, No. 6, 1915, p. 

 261; STRECKER, Baylor Bulletin, Vol. XVII, No. 4, 1915, p. 38. 



Ophibolus doliatus annulatus YARROW, Surv. W. looth Merid., Vol. V, 

 1875, p. 537; YARROW, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 24, 1883, p. 90 

 (part). 



Ophibolus multistriata COUES & YARROW, Bull. U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr., 

 Vol. IV, 1878, p. 284; COPE, Report U. S. Nat. Mus. for 1898, 

 1900, p. 909, fig. 225. 



Ophibolus triangulus var. gentilis GARMAN, Mem. Mus. Compr. Zool., 

 Cambr., Vol. VIII, No. 3, 1883, pp. 66, 155. 



Lampropeltis multistriata STEJNEGER, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Vol. XIV, 

 1891, p. 502. 



