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LAMPROPELTIS ELAPSOIDES ELAPSOIDES (Holbrook), 



SCARLET KING SNAKE, BED KING SNAKE, THUNDER SNAKE, "COEAL SNAKE." 



Figs. 58, 73. 



1789. Coluber doliatus Lacepedb, Hist. Nat. Serp., vol. 2, tabl. meth., pp. 104, 

 294. — Daudin, Hist. Nat., vol. 7, 1800, p. 74. — Harlan, Joum. Acad. 

 Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 5, pt. 2, 1827, p. 362; Med. Phys. Researches 

 1835, p. 125. — INatrix doliatus Merrem, Versuch Syst. Amphibien, 1820 

 p. 129. — Coronella doliata Holbrook, N. Amer. Herp., ed. 2, vol. 3, 

 1842, p. 105, pi. 24. — Ofliiholus doliatus Garman, S., Mem. Mas. Comp, 

 Zool., vol. 8, no. 3, pt. 1, 1883, pp. 64, 154, pi. 5, fig. 2. — Coronella doliatus, 

 Bote, Isis, 1827, p. 539. — Coronella doliata Boulenger, Cat. Snakes 

 Brit. Mus., 1894, p. 205. 



1837. Coronella cocdnea Schleqel, Essai Phys. Seri>., p. 57, pi. 2, fig. 11. — 



GiJNTHER, Cat. Colubr. Snakes Brit. Mus., 1858, p. 42. — Jan, Arch. Zool. 

 Anat., vol. 2, fasc. 2, 1863, pp. 237, 239; Icon. Gen. Ophid., livr 17, 

 1866, pi. 1, fig. 1.— BocouRT, Miss. Sci. Max., pt. 3, vol. 2, 1886, p. 608, 

 vol. 3, pi. 39, figs, la to le. — Lampropeltis cocdnea Cope, Proc. Acad. 

 Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1860, p. 257. — Ophibolv^ cocdneus Brimley, 

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



1838. Coluber elapsoides Holbrook, N. Amer. Herp., ed. 1, vol. 2, p. 123, pi. 28 



(type locality. South Carolina and Georgia). — Calamaria elapsoidea Hol- 

 brook, N. Amer. Herp., ed. 2, vol. 3, 1842, p. 119, pi. 28.— DeKay, 

 New York Fauna, pt. 3, 1842, p. 49. — Osceola elapsoidea Baird and 

 GiRARD, Cat. N. Amer. Rept., pt. 1, 1853, p. 133. — Lichtenstein, Mus. 

 Zool. Berolinenses, 1856, p. 24. — Cope, Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc, vol. 17, 

 1878, p. 65.— Yarrow, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 24, 1882, p. 89.— Davis 

 and Rice, N. Amer. Batr. Rept., 1883, p. 33.— Cope, Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., vol. 11, 1888, p. 381; Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 14, 1891, p. 606.— 

 Loennberg, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 17, 1894, p. 325. — Cory, Hunting 

 and Fishing in Florida, 1896, p. 130.— Cope, Rep. U. S. Nat. Mus. for 

 1898, 1900, p. 900, fig. 221, pi. 18, fig. 3.— Wright, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 

 Philadelph;ia, 1915, pp. 139, 140, 148. — Ophibolus elapsoideus Garman, 

 H., Bull. Illinois State Lab. Nat. Hist., vol. 3, art. 13, 1892, p. 229 (Anna, 

 III.). — Lampropeltis elapsoides Stejneger and Barbour, Check List, 

 1917, p. 88.— SrEJNEGER, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 31, 1918, p. 99. 



1883. Ophibolus doliatus elapsoideus Gabman, S., Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 8, 

 no. 3, pt. 1, pp. 65, 155. 



1901. Ophibolus doliatus cocdneus Brown, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 

 p. 74. — Brimley, Joum. Elisha Mitchell Sci. Soc, vol. 21, no. 4, 1905, 

 p. 145; 1907, pp. 145, 148.— Ditmars, Reptile Book, 1907, pp. 341, 350, 

 pi. 105 (lower figure). — Brimley, Joum. Elisha Mitchell Sci. Soc, vol. 

 30, no. 4, 1915, p. 202. — Lampropeltis doliatus cocdneus Wright, Proc. 

 Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1915, pp. 142 and following, also p. 165, 

 fig. 5. 



1915. Osceola doliata doliata Wright, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, p. 139. 



The name Coluber doliatus of Linnaeus must, as Stejneger has 

 pomted out (1918, 99), be rejected as unidentifiable; it is unlikely 

 that it was intended for any form that we now know as Lampropeltis, 

 The next name to be considered, therefore, is the Coronella cocdnea 

 of Schlegel. He, without doubt, had the present species before him 



