366 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



Color black, with narrow yellow cross lines; head black, spotted 



yellow 11a 



Brown to dark gray, with darker blotches; below clouded 



with reddish or yellowish 12a 



Reddish to purplish brown, darker blotches; below red, black 



spotted 15 



Light brown, with chocolate blotches; below yellowish white, 



black blotched , 7 



Gray to brown, with dark blotches; below yellowish to 



greenish yellow; rostral recurved 3 



Ashy gray, with brown saddle spots; below tesselated with 



black 10a 



Whitish, with chestnut blotches , black margined; below 



yellowish 9 



Olivaceous to brownish, with black spots; below greenish 



white . . ' 20b 



2) No rattle; head markedly triangular; neck constricted, distinct from 



body 

 Color brownish, with darker blotches; top of head copper red; below 

 yellowish, with dark spots 21 



3) Tail terminating in a rattle; head very distinct, triaugular, neck 



constricted 



Head covered with many small scales . . < 23 



Head with a few large plates 22 



A. COLUBRIDAE 



Top of head covered with plates ; no pit between eye and nostril ; 

 upper jaw with normal (solid) teeth, no poison fangs; neck not 

 markedly constricted ; head more or less elongate ; subcaudals 

 divided. Species all harmless. 



1 Carphophiops amoenus (Say) 



Worm snake 

 De Kay. Calamaria amoena 

 Jordan. Carphophiops amoenus 

 Head small, not distinctly 

 marked off from body, frontal 

 plate hexagonal, nearly as broad 

 as long. Tail short, tapering to 

 a point. Scales all smooth, in 13 

 rows. 



Above bright chestnut brown, 

 very glossy ; beneath, bright sal- 

 Fig. 2 Carphophiops amoenus mon color. 



