188 BUUIjETIN 114, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



LAMPROPELTIS TRIANGULUM TRIANGULUM (Lacgpede). 



MILK snake; spotted adder; checkered adder; hotjse moccasin; house snake. 

 Figs. 54, 69. 



1789. Coluber triangulum Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Quadr. Ovip. Serp., vol. 2, tabl. 

 meth., pp. 86, 331 (type locality, America).— Bonn aterre, Tabl. Encycl. 

 Meth., 1790, p. 18. — Sonnini and Latreille, Hist. Nat. Kept., vol. 4, 

 part 2, 1799, p. 132.— Daudin, Rept., vol. 6, 1800, p. 322.— Boie, Isis, 

 1827, p. 537.— Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Quadr. Ovip., vol. 1, 1836, p. 307.— 

 Ablates triangulum Dumeril and Bibron, Erp. Gen., vol. 7, pt. 1, 1854, 

 p. 315. — Lampropeltis triangula Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 

 1860, p. 256.— Verrill, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 9, 1863, p. 197.— 

 Abbott, Geol. New Jersey, Append. E, 1868, p. 802.— Allen, Proc. 

 Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 12, 1868, p. 180; vol. 13, 1870, p. 262.— 

 OpMbolus triangulum Goode, Proc. Amer. Ass. Adv. Sci., Aug. 1873, 

 p. 1S2.— OpMbolus trianx/ulus Smith, Sup. to Sci. News, 1879, p. 6; Geol. 

 Surv. Ohio, vol. 4, 1882, pp. 636, 639, 689.— Garman, S., Mem. Mus. 

 Comp. Zool., vol. 8, no. 3, pt. 1, 1883, pp. 65, 155, pi. 5, fig. 1; Nat. Hist, 

 notes, 1887, p. 2.— Higley, Trans. Wisconsin Acad. Sci., vol. 7, 1883-87, 

 pp. 166, 174.— Garman, H., Bull. Essex Inst., vol. 26, 1894, p. 35.— 

 Rhoades, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1895, p. 392.— CoroncZfa 

 triangulum Boulenger, Cat. Snakes Brit. Mus., vol. 2, 1894, p. 200.— 

 Boettger, Kat. Rept.-Samml. Frankfurt, pt. 2, 1898, p. 72 (Milwaukee 

 Wisconsin).- Sternfeld, Sitz. Ges. Nat. Freunde, 1913, p. 105.— 

 Lampropeltis triangulum Abbott, Nat. Rambles about Home, 1894, 

 p. 300.— Dunn, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 37, art. 23, 1917, p. 

 630. — Lampropeltis triangulus Dunn, Copeia, no. 25, 1915, p. 63. 



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

 p. 360 (type locality, Pennsylvania).— Hitchcock, Cat. Animals Plants 

 Massachusetts, 1833, p. 552, ed. 2, p. 534.— Harlan, Med. Phys. Re- 

 searches, 1835, p. 123.— KiRTLAND, 2d Annual Rep. Geol. Surv. Ohio, 1838 

 p. 167.— Storer, Rep. Fishes, Rept., Birds Massachusetts, 1839, p. 227.— 

 HoLBROOK, N. Amer. Herp., ed. 2, vol. 3, 1842, p. 69, pi. 15.— DeKay, 

 New York Fauna, 1842, pt. 3, p. 38, plates, Rept. Amph., pi. 12, fig. 25.— 

 LiNSLEY, Amer. Joum. Sci., 1843, p. 43.— Hough, Cat. Rept. Fishes St. 

 Lawrence County, N. Y., 1852, p. 23.— GtJNTHER, Cat. Colbur. Snakes 

 Brit. Mus., 1858, p. ^l.—Ophibolus eximius Baird and Girard, Cat. N. 

 Amer. Rept., pt. 1, 1853, p. 87.— Baird, Serp. New York, 1854, p. 21; 

 Pacif. R. R. Surv., vol. 10, pt. 3, no. 1, 1859, pi. 30, fig. 61.— Miles, Rep. 

 Geol. Surv. Michigan, 1861, p. 233.— Fogg, Proc. Portland Soc. Nat. 

 Hist., vol. 1,1862, p. 86.— OpMbolus eximia Hoy, Geol. Surv., Wisconsin, 

 vol. 1, 1883, p. 424. — Coronella eximia Jan, Arch. Zool. Anat., vol. 2, 

 fasc. 2, 1863, pp. 237, 242; Icon. Gen., livr. 17, 1866, pi. 1, figs. 3, 3A, 

 3B. 3C. 



1842. Pseudoelaps Y Berthold, Abh. d. k. Ges. d. Wiss. Gottingen, vol. 1, p. 23, 

 pi. 1, figs. 11, 12 (type locality, North America). 



1853. Ophibolus clericus Baird and Girard, Cat. N. Amer. Rept., pt. 1, p. 88 (type 

 locaUty, Clarke County, Virginia; type, U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 2380; 0. B. 

 Kennerly, collector).— Baird, Pacif. R. R. Surv., vol. 10, pt. 3, no. 1, 

 1859, pi. 30, fig. 62. 



1856. Ablabes triangulum var. clericus Hallo well, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila- 

 delphia, p. 246. 



