CHECK LIST N. AMER. AMPH. KEPT. 75 



Abastor (GENUS) 



GRAY, Cat. Snakes Brit. Mus., 1849, p. 78 

 TYPE: erythrogrammus 



Abastor erythrogrammus (DAUDIN) 

 RAINBOW SNAKE 



Coluber erythrogrammus DAUDIN 



Hist. Nat. Rept., Vol. 7, 1803, p. 93, pi. 83, figs. 2a-b. 

 Abastor erythrogrammus GRAY 



Cat. Snakes Brit. Mus., 1849, p. 78. 

 Abastor erythrogrammus COPE 



Ann. Rep. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1898 (1900), p. 738, fig. 153. 



TYPE LOCALITY: fitats Unis d'Amerique. 



RANGE : Virginia southward to Florida and Alabama. 



Farancia (GENUS) 



GRAY, Zool. Misc., 1842, p. 78 

 TYPE: drummondi = abacura 



Farancia abacura (HOLBROOK) 

 HORN-SNAKE, MUD-SNAKE 



Coluber abacurus HOLBROOK 



N. Amer. Herp., Ed. 1, Vol. 1, 1836, p. 119, pi. 23. 

 Farancia abacura BAIRD and GIRARD 



Cat. N. Amer. Rept., Pt. 1, 1853, p. 123. 

 Farancia abacura COPE 



Ann. Rep. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1898 (1900), p. 741, fig. 154. 



TYPE LOCALITY: South Carolina. 



RANGE: Virginia to Florida and Louisiana, in the Mississippi 

 Valley northward to Indiana. 



Diadophis (GENUS) 



BAIRD and GIRARD, Cat. N. Amer. Rept., Pt. 1, 1853, p. 112 

 TYPE: punctatus 



RING-NECK SNAKES 



Diadophis amabilis BAIRD and GIRARD 

 Diadophis amabilis BAIRD and GIRARD 



Cat. N. Amer. Rept., Pt. 1, 1853, p. 113. 

 Diadophis amabilis COPE 



Ann. Rep. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1898 (1900), p. 746, figs. 157, 160. 



TYPE LOCALITY: San Jose, California. 

 RANGE : Oregon to Lower California. 



