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Salvadora hexalepis (Cope) 
Patch-nosed Snake 
OriegInAL Description.—Phimothyra hexalepis Cope, Proe. Acad. 
Nat. Sci. Phila., 1866 [1867], p. 304. 
Type Locaniry.—Fort Whipple, Arizona. 
Synonyms.—Salvadora grahamiae hexalepis; Zamenis grahami; 
Salvadora grahamiac. 
Common Names.—Banded Flat-nosed Snake; Graham’s Flat-nosed 
Snake. 
Ranee.—The southern portion of the state, chiefly in arid situ- 
ations. Has been taken north to Amargosa Borax Works and Matu- 
rango Spring, Argus Range, in Inyo County (Stejneger, N. Amer. 
Fauna, 7, 1893, p. 206); west to Arroyo Seco, near Pasadena, Los 
Angeles County (Grinnell and Grinnell, Throop Inst. Bull., 35, 1907, 
p. 42), to Riverside (McLain, Crit. Notes Coll. Reptiles Western U. S., 
1899, p. 11) and to San Diego (Cope, Ann. Rep. U. 8. Nat. Mus., 1898 
[1900], p. 820). Oceupies the Lower and Upper Sonoran life-zones. 
Inhabits hillsides with sparse covering of bushes. (See fig. 11.) 
Coluber constrictor vetustus (Baird and Girard) 
Western Yellow-bellied Racer 
ORIGINAL Description.—Bascanion vetustus Baird and Girard, 
Cat. N. A. Reptiles in Smiths. Inst., pt. 1, 1853, p. 97. 
Type Locaniry—San Jose, Santa Clara County, California (so 
restricted by Van Denburgh, Oce. Papers Calif. Acad. Sei., 5, 1897 
p. 183). 
Synonyms.—Bascanion constrictor flaviventris; Bascanion con- 
strictor vetustum; Zamenis constrictor flaviventris; Bascanion con- 
strictor; Zamenis constrictor; [2] Bascanium flagelliforme testaceum, 
part. 
Common Names.—Blue Racer; California Black Snake; Black 
Chaser; Yellow Coachwhip Snake, part; Yellow-bellied Black Snake ; 
Green Racer. 
Rance.—Throughout nearly all of the state, except on the south- 
eastern deserts. Oceurs south, east of the Sierra Nevada, at least to 
Honey Lake, Lassen County (Yarrow and Henshaw, Ann. Rep. U.S. 
Engineers, 1878, p. 1636); in central California, east to Yosemite 
Valley, Mariposa County (Van Denburgh, Oce. Papers Calif. Acad. 
