OUR ANCIENT ENEMY THE OPHIDIAN. 



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under dry logs and stones in the mountains, 

 cliusetts to Louisiana and Illinois. 

 The worm snake* 



Ground snake, 

 12 laches. 



vermis). 

 inches ; 

 black above, 

 neath ; colors about 

 head very small, not wider 

 thirteen dorsal rows. Mis- 

 sas, and southern Illi- 



( Gm-phopMqps 

 Length, twelve 

 lustrous purple 

 flesh color be- 

 half and half ; 

 than the neck ; 

 souri, Kan 

 nois only. 



The chain snake {Ophiholus getulus getulus). 

 Length, forty-eight inches; handsome and inoffen- 

 sive ; black, crossed by narrow, 



continuous yellow- .J^S^SB^^^^I^ white rings 

 which bifurcate on Su^m^ ^Bl the flanks ; 



on the back 

 are large 

 black hexa- 

 gons ; blotched with black 

 beneath; head scarcely wider 

 than the neck. Cope says that 

 certain tamed chain snakes be- 

 longing once to his little daughter drank milk from 

 a saucer. The chain snake is a great enemy to other 



Chain snake, 48 inches. 



* Carphophis amcenus, var. vermis. Samuel Garman. 



