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Kentucky, western Tennessee, and northern iiississippi, and it should 

 be looked for in southern Minnesota. 



Specimens hare been examined from the following localities in 

 addition to those represented by specimens in the United States 

 National Museum: New B!armony and Vigo County, Indiana; 

 Charleston, Grand Chain (Pulaski County), St. Clair County, and 

 Horseshoe Lake at Olive Branch (Alexander County), Illinois; Ames, 

 Boone, Fort Des Moines, Grinneli, and vicinity of Sioux City, Iowa; 

 Galena, Missouri; Petit Jean Mountain and Fort Smith, Arkansas; 



Fig. 53.— Map sho-wxng locauty becoeds fob Lampeopeltis Triangulum syspila. 



South McAlester and Sapulpa, Oklahoma; Manhattan, Douglas 

 County, Anderson County, and Labette County, Kansas; and near 

 Belleview (Davidson County), Tennessee. 



Habitat and Jiahits. — ^According to Hurter (1911, 184) this snake 

 makes its home around spring houses so as to be near its food — rats 

 and mice. He mentions finding one hiding under the loose bark of 

 a heavy rotten log. " I placed it in my collecting bucket with a lizard, 

 Eumeces fasciaius. On looking into the bucket a little later I found 

 only a small end of the lizard sticking out of the snake's mouth, and 

 the wriggling tail, which had been broken off in the struggle, at the 



