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LAMPROPELTIS TRIANGULUM SYSPILA (Cope). 



Red Snake; Red Milk Snake 



Figs. 52, 68; 



1861. Coronella doliata Jan, Icon. Gen. Ophid., livr. 14, pi. 4, fig. A (Illinois 

 meridional); Arch. Zool. Anat., vol. 2, fasc. 2, 1863, p. 237. — Bocourt, 

 Miss. Sci. Mex., pt. 3, vol. 2, 1886, p. 609, vol. 3, pi. 39, fig. 2.—OpMbolus 

 doliatus Smith, Geol. Surv. Ohio, vol. 4, 1882, p. 691. — Blatchley, 

 Journ., Cincinnati Soc. Nat. Hist., 1891, p. 32. — Hurter, Trans. Acad. 

 Sci. St. Louis, vol. 6, no. 2, 1893, p. 255. — Lampropeltis doliata McLain, 

 Notes Coll. Kept., 1899, p. 3. — Lampropeltis doliatus Hurter and 

 Strecker, Trans. Acad. Sci. St. Louis, vol. 18, no. 2, 1909, p. 26. — 

 Hurter, Trans. Acad. Sci. St. Louis, vol. 20, no. 5, 1911, p. 183.— 

 PvUTHVEN, Proc. Iowa Acad. Sci., vol. 19, 1912, p. 207. 



1882. Ophiholus doliatus doliatus (part) Yarrow, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 24, 

 p. 89. — Hay, 36th Annual Rep. State Board Agric. Indiana for 1886, vol. 

 28, 1887, p. 210; Journ. Cincinnati Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 10, no. 2, 1887, 

 p. 64 (New Harmony, Ind.); 17th Annual Rep. Indiana Dept. Geol. Nat. 

 Res., 1892, p. 515.— Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1893, p. 

 385; Rep. U. S. Nat. Mus. for 1898, 1900, pis. 34, 35, figs. 5 to 7.— Branson, 

 Kansas Univ. Sci. Bull., vol. 2, no. 13, 1904, p. 400.- — Osceola doliata 

 doliata Morse, Proc. Ohio State 2V cad. Sci., vol. 4, pt. 3, spec. pap. no. 9, 

 p. 130. — Lampropeltis doliatus doliatus Strecker, Proc. Biol. Soc. 

 Washington, vol. 21, 1908, p. 89 (Hot Springs, Arkansas). 



1888. Ophiholus doliatus syspilus Cope, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 11, p. 384 

 (type locality, Richland County, Illinois; type specimen, U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., no. 13380; Robert Ridgway, collector); vol. 14, 1891, pp. 608, 609.— 

 Hay, 17th Annual Rep. Dept. Geol. Nat. Res. Indiana, 1892, p. 517.— 

 Cope, Amer. Nat., vol. 27, 1893, p. 1067, pi. 27, fig. 7,— Osceola doliata 

 syspila Cope, Rep. TJ. S. Nat. Mus. for 1898, 1900, p. 891, fig. 216. 



1892. Ophiholus triangulus doliatus Garman, H., Bull. Illinois State Lab. Nat. 

 , Hist. vol. 3, art. 13, p. 295. 



1898. Coronella triangulum, var. collaris Boettger, Kat. Rept. — Samml. Frank- 

 furt, pt. 2, p. 72. 



1903. Lampropeltis doliatus coccineus Stone, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 

 p. 542 (Petit Jean Mountain, Arkansas; South McAlester, Oklahoma). 



1919. Lampropeltis triangulum syspila Ruthven, Occ. Pap., Mus. Zool., Univ. 

 Mich., no. 66, p. 3. 



1919. Lampropeltis triangulum amaura Schmidt, Copeia, no. 73, p. 72 (Sapulpa, 

 Oklahoma). 



This form lias usually been known as doliatus Linnaeus, but this 

 name, as Stejneger has pointed out (1918, 99), can not be definitely 

 identified with any known form of Lcmpropeltis. The name syspilus 

 Cope is the next one to be considered. This is a composite, as a 

 glance at the list of specimens accompanying Cope's original descrip- 

 tion shows, but the type is definitely indicated, and as this belongs to 

 the present form its name is available. An error in the locality of 

 the type occurred in the original entry and was copied by Cope in 

 his list. The entry in the record book of the National Museum is 

 Kichland, Illinois; this was undoubtedly intended for Richland 



