866 1 3. COLUBRID/E 



196. Sonora episcopa (Kennicott) 

 STRIPED GROUND SNAKE 



Lamprosoma episcopum KENNICOTT, U. S. Mex. Bound. Surv., Vol. II, 

 1859, Kept., p. 22, pi. 8, fig. 2 (type locality, Eagle Pass and 

 San Antonio to Rio Grande, Texas); BOCOURT, Miss. Sci. au 

 Mex., Kept., 1883, p. 559, pi. XXXIV, fig. 4. 



Contia episcopa COPE, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1860, p. 251; COPE, 

 Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. i, 1875, p. 36; COPE, Bull. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., No. 17, 1880, p. 20; GARMAN, Mem. Mus. Compr. Zool., 

 Cambr., Vol. VIII, No. 3, 1883, pp. 94, 164, pi. VI, fig. 2; Bou- 

 LENGER, Cat. Snakes Brit. Mus., Vol. II, 1894, p. 265; MOCQ.UARD, 

 Nouv. Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat., Paris, Ser. 4, Vol. I, 1899, p. 319; 

 DITMARS, Reptile Book, 1907, p. 331; STRECKER, Baylor Bulletin, 

 Vol. XVIII, No. 4, 1915, P- 37- 



Homalosoma episcopum JAN, Arch. Zool. Anat. Phys., Vol. II, 1862, 

 p. 35; JAN, Icohogr. Gener. Ophid., 13e livr., 1865, pi. IV, fig. 2. 



Contia episcopa episcopa COPE, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 17, 1880, 

 p. 21 ; YARROW, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 24, 1883, p. 87; COPE, 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Vol. XIV, 1892, p. 601; BROWN, Proc. 

 Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1901, p. 67; BROWN, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 

 Phila., 1903, p. 553. 



Contia episcopa torquata COPE, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 17, 1880, 

 p. 21 (type locality, Northwestern Texas); COPE, Proc. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus., Vol. XIV, 1892, p. 601. 



Contia torquata BOULENGER, Cat. Snakes Brit. Mus., Vol. II, 1894, 

 p. 266. 



Chionactis episcopus episcopus COPE, Report U. S. Nat. Mus., for 1898, 



1900, p. 938. 

 Chionactis episcopus torquatus COPE, Report U. S. Nat. Mus., for 1898, 



1900, p. 939. 

 Chionactis episcopus VAN DENBURGH, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., Ser. 4, 



Vol. Ill, 1912, p. 153. 

 Sonora episcopa VAN DENBURGH & SLEVIN, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., Ser. 



4, Vol. 3, 1913, p. 412; CAMP, Univ. Cal. Publ. Zool., Vol. 12, No. 



17, 1916, p. 530; GRINNELL & CAMP, Univ. Cal. Publ. Zool., Vol. 17, 



No. 10, 1917, p. 183; STEJNEGER & BARBOUR, Check List N. Amer. 



Amph. Rept., 1917, p. 92; VAN DENBURGH & SLEVIN, Proc. Cal. 



Acad. Sci., Ser. 4, Vol. XI, 1921, p. 52. 



