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Diadophis amabilis Baird and Girard 
Western Ring-necked Snake 
ORIGINAL DeEscripTioN.—Diadophis amabilis Baird and Girard, 
Cat. N. A. Reptiles in Smiths. Inst., pt. 1, 1853, pp. 113-114. 
Type Locauiry—San Jose, Santa Clara County, California. 
Synonyms.—Diadophis pulchellus Baird and Girard, loc. cit., p. 
115 (type from Eldorado County) ; Diadophis punctatus pulchellus ; 
Diadophis punctatus amabilis; Diadophis amabilis pulchellus ; Coro- 
nella amabilis; Ablabes punctatus; [2] Coluber punctatus; Diadophis 
punctatus. 
Common Names.—California Ring-necked Snake; Red-bellied 
Snake; Spotted Ring Snake. 
Rance—West of the desert divides the whole length of the state. 
Occurs northeast to McCloud River, Shasta County (Townsend, Proe. 
U.S. Nat. Mus., 10, 1887, p. 239) ; east to Oroville, Butte County (Mus. 
Vert. Zool.) ; to Eldorado County (as above); to Yosemite Valley, 
Mariposa County (Stejneger, N. Amer. Fauna, 7, 1893, p. 204) ; to 
[near] Fresno, Fresno County (Yarrow, U. 8. Nat. Mus. Bull, 24, 
1882, pp. 15, 95-96); to Tejon Pass [Kern County?] (Heermann, 
Pac. R. R. Rep., 10, 1859, Williamson’s Rep., pt. 4, no. 1, p. 24) ; to 
Arroyo Seco Cation (Grinnell and Grinnell, Throop Inst. Bull., 35, 
1907, pp. 38-39) and Glendora (Mus. Vert. Zool.), Los Angeles 
County; to Santa Ana Cafion, 6400 feet altitude, San Bernardino 
County (Grinnell, Univ. Calif. Publ. Zool., 5, 1908, p. 164) ; to Straw- 
berry Valley, 5500 feet altitude, San Jacinto Mountains, Riverside 
County (Atsatt, Univ. Calif. Publ. Zool., 12, 1913, p. 41); and to 
Witch Creek, San Diego County (Cope, Ann. Rep. U. 8. Nat. Mus., 
1898 [1900], p. 749). There is a mutilated specimen of a Diadophis 
in the U. S. National Museum from Santa Catalina Island. Occurs 
within the Upper Sonoran and Transition life-zones. Inhabits shaded 
canons; lives in masses of dead leaves and beneath stones. (See 
fio 25) 
Lampropeltis pyromelana multicincta (Yarrow) 
Coral King Snake 
OrIGINAL Description.—Ophibolus getulus multicinctus Yarrow, 
Proce. U. S. Nat. Mus., 5, 1882, p. 440. 
Type Locauiry.—|Near] Fresno, California. 
Synonyms.—[?] Coluber (Zacholus) zonatus Blainville, Nouv. 
