188 BULLETIN" 114, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



LAMPROPELTIS TRIANGULUM TRIANGULUM (Lacgpede). 



MILK snake; spotted adder; checkered adder; house moccasin; house snake. 



Figs. 54, 69. 



1789. Coluber triangulum Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Quadr. Ovip. Serp., vol. 2, tabl. 

 meth., pp. 86, 331 (type locality, America). — Bonnaterre, Tabl. Encycl. 

 Meth., 1790, p. 18. — Sonnini and Latreille, Hist. Nat. Rept., vol. 4, 

 part 2, 1799, p. 132.— Daudin, Kept., vol. 6, 1800, p. 322.— Boie, Isis, 

 1827, p. 537.— Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Quadr. Ovip., vol. 1, 1836, p. 307.— 

 Ahlahes triangulum Dumeril and Bibron, Erp. Gen., vol. 7, pt. 1, 1854, 

 p. 315. — Lampropeltis triangula Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 

 1860, p. 256.— Verrill, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 9, 1863, p. 197.—. 

 Abbott, Geol. New Jersey, Append. E, 1868, p. 802. — Allen, Proc. 

 Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 12, 1868, p. 180; vol. 13, 1870, p. 262.— 

 Ophiholus triangulum Goode, Proc. Amer. Ass. Adv. Sci., Aug. 1873, 

 p. 182. — Ophiholus triangulus Smith, Sup. to Sci. News, 1879, p. 6; Geol. 

 Surv. Ohio, vol. 4, 1882, pp. 636, 639, 689.— Garman, S., Mem. Mus. 

 Comp. Zool., vol. 8, no. 3, pt. 1, 1883, pp. 65, 155, pi. 5, fig. 1; Nat. Hist, 

 notes, 1887, p. 2.— Higley, Trans. Wisconsin Acad. Sci., vol. 7, 1883-87, 

 pp. 166, 174.— Garman, H., Bull. Essex Inst., vol. 26, 1894, p. 35.— 

 Rhoades, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1895, p. 392. — Coronella 

 triangulum Boulenger, Cat. Snakes Brit. Mus., vol. 2, 1894, p. 200. — 

 Boettger, Kat. Rept.-Samml. Frankfurt, pt. 2, 1898, p. 72 (Milwaukee 

 Wisconsin). — Sternfeld, Sitz. Ges. Nat. Freunde, 1913, p. 105. — 

 Lampropeltis triangulum Abbott, Nat. Rambles about Home, 1894, 

 p. 300.— Dunn, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hiet., vol. 37, art. 23, 1917, p. 

 630. — Lampropeltis triangulus Dunn, Copeia, no. 25, 1915, p. 63. 



1827. Coluber eximius Harlan, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 5, pt. 2, 

 p. 360 (type locality, Pennsylvania). — Hitchcock, Cat. Animals Plants 

 Massachusetts, 1833, p. 552, ed. 2, p. 534. — Harlan, Med. Phys. Re- 

 searches, 1835, p. 123. — Kirtland, 2d Annual Rep. Geol. Surv. Ohio, 1838 

 p. 167. — Storer, Rep. Fishes, Rept., Birds Massachusetts, 1839, p. 227. — 

 Holbrook, N. Amer. Herp., ed. 2, vol. 3, 1842, p. 69, pi. 15. — DeKay, 

 New York Fauna, 1842, pt. 3, p. 38, plates, Rept. Amph., pi. 12, fig. 25.— 

 Linsley, Amer. Journ. Sci., 1843, p. 43. — Hough, Cat. Rept. Fishes St. 

 Lawrence County, N. Y., 1852, p. 23. — GDnther, Cat. Colbur. Snakes 

 Brit. Mus., 1858, p. 91. — OpJiibolus eximius Baird and Girard, Cat. N. 

 Amer. Rept., pt. 1, 1853, p. 87.— Baird, Serp. Nev/ York, 1854, p. 21; 

 Pacif. R. R. Surv., vol. 10, pt. 3, no. 1, 1859, pi. 30, fig. 61.— Miles, Rep. 

 Geol. Surv. Michigan, 1861, p. 233.— Fogg, Proc. Portland Soc. Nat. 

 Hist., vol. 1,1862, p. 86. — Ophiholus eximia Hoy, Geol. Surv., Wisconsin, 

 vol. 1, 1883, p. 424. — Coronella eximia Jan, Arch." Zool. Anat., vol. 2, 

 fasc. 2, 1863, pp. 237, 242; Icon. Gen., livr. 17, 1866, pi. 1, figs. 3, 3A, 

 3B, 3C. 



1842. Pseudoelaps Y Berthold, Abh. d. k. Ges. d. Wiss. Gottingen, vol. 1, p. 23, 

 pi. 1, figs. 11, 12 (type locality. North America). 



1853. Ophiholus clericus Baird and Girard, Cat. N. Amer. Rept., pt. 1, p. 88 (type 

 locality, Clarke County, Virginia; type, U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 2380; C. B. 

 Kennerly, collector). — Baird, Pacif. R. R. Surv., vol. 10, pt. 3, no. 1, 

 1859, pi. 30, fig. 62. 



1856. Ahlahes triangulum var. clericus Hallo well, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila- 

 delphia, p. 246. 



