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Kentucky, western Teiinesseo, and northern Mississippi , and it should 

 be loois:ed for in southern Minnesota. 



Specimens have been examined from the following localities in 

 addition to those represented by specimens in the United vStates 

 National Museum: New Harmony and Vigo County, Indiana; 

 Charleston, Grand Chain (Pulaski County), St. Clair County, and 

 Horseshoe Lake at Olive Branch (Alexander County), Illinois; Ames, 

 Boone, Fort Des Moines, Grinnell, and vicinity of Sioux City, Iowa; 

 Galena, Missouri; Petit Jean Mountain and Fort Smith, Arkansas; 



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Fig. 53.— Map sho^ving locality eecords for Lampropeltis Triangulum syspila. 



South McAlester and Sapulpa, Oklahom^a; Manhattan, Douglas 

 County, Anderson County, and Labette County, Kansas; and near 

 Belleview (Davidson County), Tennessee. 



Habitat and Tiahits. — ^According to Hurter (1911, 184) this snake 

 makes its home around spring houses so as to be near its food — rats 

 and mice. He mentions finding one hiding under the loose bark of 

 a heavy rotten log. " I placed it in my collecting bucket with a lizard, 

 Eumeces fasciatus. On looking into the bucket a little later I found 

 only a small end of the lizard sticking out of the snake's mouth, and 

 the wriggling tail, whic h had been broken off in the struggle, at the 



