REVISION OF THE KING SNAKES. 49 



LAMPROPELTIS GETULUS GETULUS (Unnaeue). 



kinqsn.vke; chain snake; cowsucker; black moccasin; horse racer; master snake; bastard horn 

 snake; thunder snake; thunder and lightning snake; "wamper; -wampum snake; rattlesnake 



PILOT. 



Figs. 4, 34, 35. 



1766. Coluber getulus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, vol. 1, p. 382 (type locality 

 Carolina).— Gmelin, Syst. Nat., vol. 1, pt. 3, 1788, p. 1106.— Lacepede, 

 Hist. Nat. Serp., vol. 2, 1789, pp. 84, 300.— Bonnaterre, Tabl. Encycl. 

 Meth., 1790, p. 45, pi. 18, fig. 33.— Sonnini and Latreille, Hist. Nat. 

 Rept., vol. 4, pt. 2, 1799, p. 174.— Daudin, Hist. Nat., vol. 6, 1800, 

 p. 314, pi. 77, fig. 1.— Shaw, Gen. Zool., vol. 3, pt. 2, 1802, p. 467.— Say, 

 Amer. Joum. Sci., vol. 1, 1818, p. 260.— Boie, Isis, 1827, p. 537.— 

 Harlan, Joum. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 5, pt. 2, 1827, p. 

 358.— Peale, Contr. Macl. Lye, vol. 1, 1829, pi. 5.— Harlan, Med. 

 Phys. Researches, 1835, p. 122. — Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Quad. Ovip., 

 vol. 1, 1836, p. 300.— De Kay, New York Fauna, 1842, plates, rept. 

 amph., pi. 10, fig. 21, pt. 3, p. 37.— Linsley, Amer. Jo\im. Sci., vol. 46, 

 1843, p. 43.— Hough, 5th Annual Rept. State Cab. Nat. Hist. New York, 

 1852, p. 23.— GiJNTHER, Cat. Colubr. Snakes Brit. Mus., 1858, p. 249.— 

 Pseudoelaps getulus Fitzinger, Neue Class. Rept., 1826, p. 56. — Coronella 

 getula Holbrook, N. Amer. Herp., ed. 2, vol. 3, 1842, p. 95, pi. 21. — 

 Lichtenstein, Nomenclator, Mus. Zool. Berolinensis, 1856, p. 25. — 

 Boulenger, Cat. Snakes Brit. Mus., vol. 2, 1894, p. 198 (part). — Ophi- 

 holus getulus Baird and Girard, Cat. N. Amer. Rept., pt. 1, 1853, p. 

 85.— Baird, Serp. of N. Y., 1854, p. 20; Pacif. R. R. Surv., vol. 10, pt. 3, 

 no. 1, 1859, pi. 31, fig. 65.— Coues, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 

 1871, p. 48.— Yarrow, Amer. Nat., vol. 12, 1878, p. 470.— Garman, S., 

 Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 8, no. 3, pt. 1, 1883, pp. 68, 156, pi. 5, fig. 

 3; Nat. Hist. Notes, Boston, 1887, p. 2.— Hay, 36th Annual Rep. Indiana 

 State Board Agri. for 1886, vol. 28, 1887, p. 210.— Nelson, Rep. State 

 Geol. New Jersey, vol. 2, 1890, p. 647.— Cope, Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc, 

 vol. 33, 1894, p. 221; Rep. U. S. Nat. Mus. for 1898, 1900, pi. 18, fig. 7.— 

 Brimley, Joum. Elisha Mitchell Sci. Soc, vol. 21, no. 4, 1905, p. 152. — 

 DiTMARs, Reptile Book, 1907, pp. 341, 351, pi. 103, figs. 11, 12, pi. 108 

 (upper fig.).— Brimley, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 22, 1909, p. 

 134.— DiTMARS, Reptiles of the World, 1910, p. 267, pi. 59 (upper fig.); 

 Sci. Contr. New York Zool. Soc, vols. 1, 2, 1912, p. 222.— Brimley, 

 Joum. Elisha Mitchell Sci. Soc, vol. 30, no. 4, 1915, p. 202.— Engle- 

 HARDT, et al., Copeia, no. 17, 1915, p. 1. — Coronella getulus Dumeril and 

 BiBRON, Erp. Gen., vol. 7, pt. 1, 1854, p. 616.— Jan, Icon. Gen., livr. 14, 

 1861, pi. 5, fig. 1; Arch. Zool. Anat., vol. 2, fasc. 2, 1863, pp. 238, 244.— 

 Lampropeltis getula Cope, Proc Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1860, p. 

 255.— Abbott, Geol. of New Jersey, Appendix E, 1868, p. 802.— Xam- 

 propeltis getulus Abbott, Nat. Rambles, 1894, p. 476. — Loennberg, 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 17, no. 1003, 1894, p. 317.— Cory, Hunting 

 and Fishing in Florida, 1896, p. 131.— Ditmars, Proc. Linn. Soc. New 

 York, 1896, p. 12; 1902, p. 2.— Brimley, Amer. Nat., vol. 37, p. 263.— 

 Stone, Amer. Nat., vol. 40, no. 471, 1906, p. 167; Brimley, Joum. 

 Elisha Mtchell Sci. Soc, 1907, p. 145. — Fowler, Annual Rep. New 

 Jersey State Mus. for 1906, 1907, p. 178, text figs., pi. 45.— Brimley, 

 Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 22, 1909, p. 134.— Hurter, Trans. 

 Acad. Sci. St. Louis, vol. 20, 1911, p. 186. — Brimley, Joum. Elisha 

 Mitchell Sci. Soc, vol. 30, no. 4, 1915, p. 202.— Dunn, Copeia, no. 18, 

 1915, p. 6; Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 37, art. 23, 1917, p. 593,— 

 Stejneqer and Barbour, Check List, 1917, p. 88. — Brimley, Copeia, 

 no. 64, 1918, p. 97; no. 88, 1920, p. 100. 



