698 REPTILES — COLUBKID^. 



harmless. An anomaly sometimes occurs in regard to the cephalic plates, as 

 in the case of a specimen before me, which has four postorbitals on one side 

 and two on the other, and also has a couple of labials united. 



Stoeeria occipito-maculata Storer. 



Red-bellied Storeria. 



ijoluber occipito-maculata, Storer. 



Coluber venustua, Hallowell. 



Storeria occipitomaoulata, Baird and Girard, Copk, Jordan. 



Ichnognathus occipito-maculata, GuNTaER. 



General color above grayish to dark-brown, with at times dark spots arranged in 

 longitudinal band ; three light spots in the nuchal region ; beneath red or salmon- color to 

 white, sometimes with red upon the flsinks and white between ; vertical plate sub pen- 

 tangular, longer than broad, nearly or quite equal to commisinral line of occipitals; 

 anteorlitals two ; nostril in the anterior nasal ; upper labials, 5-6, lower, 6-7, on a side ; 

 dorsal scales in 15 rows; gastrosteges, 125- 130; nrosteges, 40-50. Length, 10 inches; 

 head, 4 lines; tail, 2 inches ; transverse diameter of head, 3 lines ; of neck, 1^ lines; 

 circumferonoe of body 1 inch. 



Habitat, Maine, New York, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Georgia, Kentucky, Illi- 

 nois, Ohio, Michigan, WisooBsin, Minnesota. 



Not rare about Columbus. It is somewhat nocturnal, and lives chiefly 

 under logs and stones. 



Genus CARPHOPHIS. Gervais. 



Body slender, cylindrical, of nearly uniform thickness ; head and neck not separable, 

 the former taptring "to a pointed snout ; teeth equal, smooth ; vertical plate very broad ; 

 snperoilaries exceedingly narrow ; •ccipitals moderate ; postorbitals one ; anteorbitals 

 one ; frontals one or two pairs ; infrawaxillaries small ; dorsal scales in 13 rows, all 

 smooth; gastrosteges, 130-135; anal plate bifid. 

 Frontal plates in two pairs. ». 



Frontal plates a single pair ; abdomen flesh-colored ; extralimital. . . C. Helena. 

 a. Color above lustrous purpiish-blaok ; abdomen flesh-colored, extending over the 



third r»w of scales; extralimital C. vermis, 



*. Color above chestnut-brovrn. ..... C. amcenus. 



Carphophis am(enus Say. 

 Oround or Worm !$nake. 



Coluber amaenus. Sat, Haklan, Stoker. 



Calamaria amoena, Sohlegel. 



Braohyorrhos amcenus, Holbrook. 



Celuta amoma, Baird and Girard. 



Carphophis amoma, Gervais, Dumkril and Bibron, Gunther. 



Carphophiops amcenus, Copx, Jordan. 



General oolar above brown, without spots or bands ; beneath salmon-red ; head small ; 

 vertical plat* irregular, hexagonal, pointed behind, about as broad aa long, and equal 



