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Chrysemys picta Gray. Painted Turtle. Very common ; living 

 chiefly in muddy places, and seldom going far from the water. 

 This species is found in all parts of Maine. 



Nanemys guttata Agassiz. Rare. I have found but one specimen at 

 Norway ; it is more common in the south-western part of the 

 State (York and Cumberland Counties). 



Glyptemys insculpta Agassiz. Sculptured Turtle. Common; often 

 found at considerable distances from water. I have found it 

 feeding on the leaves and scapes of Dandelion {Taraxacum 

 densleonis'). In the eastern part of the State, beyond the 

 Penobscot River, I have not been able to find it in numerous 

 excursions, so that it must, at least, be uncommon there. 

 Prof. Agassiz, however, mentions a specimen from the Little 

 Madawaska River, in northern Maine. 



Ophidia.. 



Chlorosoma vernale B. &. G. (^Liopeltis vernalis Cope.) Green 



Snake. Very common ; distributed over all parts of the State. 



I have collected it also at Gi-and Menan, and Breton Island, 



Nova Scotia. 

 Storeria Dehayi Baird & Girard.* Not common. 

 Storeria occipito-maculata Baird & Girard. " Little Brown Snake." 



Very common. It lives chiefly under logs and stones, and is 



somewhat nocturnal in its habits. 

 Some specimens of this species are reddish brown above, and others 

 slate-colored, — a difference which is, perhaps, sexual. Celuta amoena, 

 attributed to Maine by Dr. Fogg,f is unquestionably the red-colored 

 form of the present species, as I have ascertained by an examination 

 of the specimens in the collection of the Portland Natural History 

 Society, labelled by him. The genus Celuta may be readily distin- 

 guished from Storeria by its smooth, glossy scales, and head continuous 

 with the body, while in Storeria the scales are carinated, and the 

 head is distinct from the body, the neck being small. The colors of 

 Celuta amosna are, however, much like those of Storeria occipito- 

 maculata, and on this account they might be confounded; but I 

 believe the whitish spots found on the back of the head of the 

 latter are never found on the former. Therefore Celuta amoena 

 should be erased from nominal lists of the reptiles of Maine ; and 



*The genus Isclinognatlms was proposed for this species by Dumeril and 

 Bibron, in the Memoires de I'Institut de France, xxiii. p. 399, 1853. But since 

 the worlv of Baird and Girard was published in January of the same year, I 

 have considered their name as having priority j it has moreover the merit of 

 being more euphonic. 



t List of the Reptiles and Amphibians of Maine, by B. F. Fogg. Proceedings 

 of the Portland Society of Natural History, Vol. I. p. 86, 1862. 



