REPTILES. 



103 



identified lepidoptera, measuring worms, ground beetles {Bar pains 

 sp.), red ants, striped salamander (Surface, 1906, 165-lCG) ; insects 

 (Ditmars, 1907, 324-325) ; grasshoppers (Atkinson, 1901, 148) ; 

 spiders, grasshoppers and crickets, but in preference to anything 



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Fig. 37. Distribution of Liopeltlis vcrnalis. 

 Horizontal ruling, specimens examined; vertical ruling, reports only, 



of this character will take the larvae or caterpillars of certain 

 moths'' (Ditmars, 1907, 325). 



Range: The species has been reported from: Michigan (Sager, 

 1839, 302; Miles, 1861, 233), Ann Arbor (Smith, 1879, 7), Detroit 

 (Cope, 1900, 783), Eaton County (Clark, 1902, 193), Olivet, Ann 

 Arbor, and Barry, Kalamazoo, Kent, Montcalm and Van Buren 



