402 REPOBT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 



separated, down middle of back. Along sides, just above gastrosteges, 

 a dusky line extending back, though becoming obsolete on posterior 

 half of body, and marked above and below by a series of small 

 buffy spots along its entire length. Lower surface of head grayish 

 with a few dusky specks along side. Lower surface of trunk and 

 tail deep brick-red. Length five inches. Taken at Stafford's Forge, 

 in Ocean county, on June 12th, 1908, by Mr. J. W. Holman. 



Storeria dekayi (Holbrook). 

 De Kay's Brown Snake. 



Mr. Miller says it is apparently not common about Plainfield. 

 Mr. Seiss has it from Hunterdon county. 



Genus VIRGINIA Baird and Girard. 



The Virginia Snakes. 



Virginia Valerias Baird and Girard. 



Blaney's Snake. 



Scales smooth, about fifteen in transverse dorsal series. Gastro- 

 steges one hundred and twenty to one hundred and thirty. Anal 

 plate divided. Color grayish, in life, with minute black dots, often 

 in two rows. Below yellowish. Length twelve inches. 



Known from our limits only by Mr. W. D. W. Miller's observations. 

 He says he has found several specimens, all under boards or stones, 

 in woods on the trap ridges immediately north of Plainfield. South 

 of this region the species is apparently not found. Though I have 

 never seen any specimens, Mr. Miller informs me that he has one 

 adult specimen preserved. This is the first occurrence of the species 

 in New Jersey so far as I am aware, and its distribution is usually 

 given as no further north than Maryland and Delaware. 



