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LAMPROPELTIS TRIANGtLlJM SVSPILA (Cope). 



Red Snake; Red MaK Snake 



Figs. 52, G8. 



1861. Caronella doliata Jan, Icon. Gen. Ophid., livr. 14, pi. 4, fig. A (Illinoifl 

 meridional); Arch. Zool. Anat., vol. 2, fasc. 2, 18G3, p. 237.— Bocourt, 

 Miss. Sci. Mex., pt. 3, vol. 2, 1886, p. 009, vol. 3, pi. 39, fig. 2.—Ophibolus 

 dolialus Smith, Geol. Surv. Ohio, vol. 4, 1882, p. 691.— Blatchley, 

 Journ., Cincinnati Soc. Nat. Hist., 1891, p. 32.— Hurter, Trans. Acad. 

 Sci. St. Louis, vol. 6, no. 2, 1893, p. 255. — Lampropeltis doliata McLain, 

 Notes Coll. Rept., 1899, p. 3. — Lampropeltis dolialus Hurter and 

 Strecker, Trans. Acad. Sci. St. Louis, vol. 18, no. 2, 1909, p. 26.— 

 Hurter, Trans. Acad. Sci. St. Louis, vol. 20, no. 5, 1911, p. 183.— 

 RuTHVEN, Proc. Iowa Acad. Sci., vol. 19, 1912, p. 207. 



1882. OpUholm dolialus dolialus (part) Yarrow, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 24, 

 p. 89.— Hay, 36th Annual Rep. State Board Agric. Indiana for 188G, vol. 

 28, 1887, p. 210; Journ. Cincinnati Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 10, no. 2, 1887, 

 p. 64 (New Harmony, Ind.); 17th Annual Rep. Indiana Dept. Geol. Nat. 

 Res., 1892, p. 515.— Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1893, p. 

 385; Rep. U. S. Nat. Mus. for 1898, 1900, pis. 34, 35, figs. 5 to 7.— Branson, 

 Kansas Univ. Sci. Bull., vol. 2, no. 13, 1904, p. 400.— Osceoia doliata 

 doliata Morse, Proc. Ohio State Acad. Sci., vol. 4, pt. 3, spec. pap. no. 9, 

 p. 130. — Lampropeltis dolialus dolialus Strecker, Proc. Biol. Soc. 

 Washington, vol. 21, 1908, p. 89 (Hot Springs, Arkansas). 



1888. OpUholus dolialus syspilus Cope, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 11, p. 384 

 (type locality, Richland County, Illinois; type specimen, U. S. Nat. 

 Mils., no. 13380; Robert Ridgway, collector); vol. 14, 1891, pp. 608, 609.— 

 Hay, 17th Annual Rep. Dept. Geol. Nat. Res. Indiana, 1892, p. 517.— 

 Cope, Amer. Nat., vol. 27, 1893, p. 1067, pi. 27, fig. 7.— Osceola doliata 

 syspila Cope, Rep. U. S. Nat. :Mus. for 1898, 1900, p. 891, fig. 210. 



1892. Ophibohis triangulus dolialus Garman, H., Bull. Illinois State Lab. Nat. 

 Hist. vol. 3, art. 13, p. 295. 



1898. Coronella triangulum, var. collaris Boettger, Kat. Rept. — Samml. Frank- 

 furt, pt. 2, p. 72. 



1903. Lampropeltis dolialus coccineus Stone, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 

 p. 542 (Petit Jean Mountain, Arkansas; South McAlester, Oklahoma). 



1919. Lampropeltis triangulum syspila Ruthven, Occ. Pap., Mus. Zool., Univ. 

 Mich., no. 60, p. 3. 



1919. Lampropeltis triangulum amaura Schmidt, Copeia, no. 73, p. 72 (Sapulpa, 

 Oklahoma). 



This form has usually been Inown as doliatus Linnaeus, but this 

 name, as Stejneger has pointed out (191S, 99), can not be definitely 

 identified with any known form of Lampropeltis. The name syspilus 

 Cope is the next one to be considered. This is a composite, as a 

 glance at the list of specimens accompanying Cope's original descrip- 

 tion shows, but the type is definitely indicated, and as this belongs to 

 the present form its name is available. An error in the locality of 

 the type occurred in the original entry and was copied by Cope in 

 his list. The entry in the record book of the National Museum is 

 Richland, Illinois; this was undoubtedly intended for Richland 



