682 REPTILES — COLUBEIDJB. 



Regina lebebis Linnseus. 



Tellow-bellied or deatlier Snake. 



Coluber leieris, LiNN^trs, Gmeun, Kalm, Shaw, Daudin. 



Coluber septemvittaium, Say, Haklan. 



Tropidonoiua leberia, Holbeook, DeKay, Dumbril and Bibron, Gunthbr, Copb. 



Begina leberia, Baird and Girard. 



Color olive-brown above, beneath yellow, with fonr longitudinal bands of greenish- 

 brown, of these bands the two inner at times looking somewhat like series of dots ; the 

 yellow upon the sides appears as bands above the brown ; sides of vertical plates 

 parallel, the plate itself being hexagonal, with the posterior apex more acute than the 

 anterior ; anteorbitals two ; upper labials seven, lower eight ; inframaxillaries reaching 

 to the end of the sixth lower labial ; postorbitals over the fourth and fifth upper labials ; 

 dorsal scales 19 ; gastrosteges 140-150 ; urosteges 65-80 ; yellow bands upon the sides on 

 first and second rows of scales ; tail moderately long, becoming unicolor by the con- 

 fluence of the lines. Length, 22 inches; head, t inch; tail, bi inches; transverse 

 diameter of head, i inch ; of neck, 7-16 inch ; circumference of body, If inches. 



Habitat, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, Tennessee, 

 Michigan, Ohio, and Illinois. 



In the State I have specimens from Highland county, and also from 

 Columbus. It is aquatic, and probably occurs elsewhere, though it 

 is not very common. 



Regina kirtlandii Kennicott. 



liittle Red* Snake. 



Begina Mrtlandii, Kennicott, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil., 1865. p. 75. 

 Tropidoclonion kirtlandii, Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil., 1860, p. 340. 



General color above purplish brown, with four rows of sub-circnlar to triangular 

 blotches, the onter larger than the inner, being from two to five scales in width ; color 

 beneath brick red, with a well defined series of dark blotches near the exterior of the 

 acutellie ; dorsal tcales in 19 rows, all carinate ; vertical plate hexagonal, the posterior 

 angle more acute, the sides nearly parallel ; anteorbitals one on each side; nasals one, 

 with an indented line giving it the appearance of two ; upper labials six, lower 

 seven ; postorbitals above the fourth upper labials, and inframaxillaries reaching to sixth 

 lower labials ; gastrosteges 130-135 ; urosteges 55-60 ; post-abdominal scntella bifid. 

 Length 17^ inches ; head, f inch ; tail, 4^ inches ; transverse diameter of head, 5-16 inch ; 

 of neck -J inch ; circumference of body, 1^ inches. 



Habitat, New Jersey, Ohio, Michigan, and Illinois. 



Regina kirtlandii is a terrestrial animal, being found in woods, gen- 

 erally under old logs. It is sluggish, not very pugnacious, and in the 

 State has been detected in Columbus. 



In naming this species, Mr. Kennicott pays the following compli- 

 ment to the Ohio Herpetologist : " In giving to this serpent the name 



