206 BULLETIN 114, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



LAMPROPELTIS ELAPSOIDES ELAPSOIDES (Holbrook). 



SCARLET KING SNAKE, RED KING SNAKE, THUNDER SNAKE, "CORAL SNAKE." 



Figs. 58, 73. 



1789. Coluber doliatus Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Serp., vol. 2, tabl. meth., pp. 104, 

 294.— Daudin, Hist. Nat., vol. 7, 1800, p. 74.— Harlan, Journ. Acad. 

 Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 5, pt. 2, 1827, p. 3G2; Med. Phys. Researches 

 1835, p. 125. — INatrix doliatus Merrem, Versuch Syst. Amphibien, 1820 

 p. 129. — Coronella doliata Holbrook, N. Amer. Herp., ed. 2, vol. 3, 

 1842, p. 105, pi. 24. — Ophibolus doliatus Garman, S., Mem. Mas. Comp, 

 ZooL, vol. 8, no. 3, pt. 1, 1883, pp. 64, 154, pL 5, fig. 2. — Coronella doliatus, 

 Bote, Isis, 1827, p. 539. — Coronella doliata Boulenger, Cat. Snakes 

 Brit. Mus., 1894, p. 205. 



1837. Coronella cocdnea Schlegel, Essai Phys. Sorp., p. 57, pi. 2, fig. 11. — 



GuNTHER, Cat. Coliibr. Snakes Brit. Mus., 1858, p. 42. — ^Jan, Arch. Zool. 

 Anat., vol. 2, fasc. 2, 1863, pp. 237, 239; Icon. Gen. Ophid., livr 17, 

 1866, pi. 1, fig. 1.— BocouRT, Miss. Sci. Mex., pt. 3, vol. 2, 1886, p. 608, 

 vol. 3, pi. 39, figs, la to le. — Lampropeltis cocdnea Cope, Proc. Acad. 

 Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1860, p. 257. — Ophibolus cocdneus Brimley, 

 Journ. Elisha Mitchell Sci. Soc, vol. 21, no. 4, 1905, p. 152. 



1838. Coluber elapsoides Holbrook, N. Amer. Herp., ed. 1, vol. 2, p. 123, pi. 28 



(type locality, South Carolina and Georgia). — Calainaria elapsoidea Hol- 

 brook, N. Amer. Herp., ed. 2, vol. 3, 1842, p. 119, pi. 28.— DeKay, 

 New York Fauna, pt. 3, 1842, p. 49. — Osceola elapsoidea Baird and 

 GiRARD, Cat. N. Amer. Kept., pt. 1, 1853, p. 133. — Lichtenstein, Mus. 

 Zool. Berolinenses, 1856, p. 24. — Cope, Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc, vol. 17, 

 1878, p. 65.— Yarrow, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 24, 1882, p. 89.— Davis 

 and Rice, N. Amer. Batr. Rept., 1883, p. 33.— Cope, Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., vol. 11, 1888, p. 381; Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 14, 1891, p. 606.— 

 Loennberg, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 17, 1894, p. 325. — Cory, Hunting 

 and Fishing in Florida, 1896, p. 130.— Cope, Rep. U. S. Nat. Mus. for 

 1898, 1900, p. 900, fig. 221, pi. 18, fig. 3.— Wright, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 

 Philadelphia, 1915, pp. 139, 140, 148. — Ophibolus elopsoideus Garman, 

 H., Bull. Illinois State Lab. Nat. Hist., vol. 3, art. 13, 1892, p. 229 (Anna, 

 111.). — Lampropeltis elapsoides Stejneger and Barbour, Check List, 

 1917, p. 88.— Stejneger, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 31, 1918, p. 99. 



1883. Ophibolus doliatus elapsoideus Garman, S., Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 8, 

 no. 3, pt. 1, pp. 65, 155. 



1901. Ophibolus doliatus cocdneus Brown, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 

 p. 74. — Brimley, Journ. Elisha Mitchell Sci. Soc, vol. 21, no. 4, 1905, 

 p. 145; 1907, pp. 145, 148.— Ditmars, Reptile Book, 1907, pp. 341, 350, 

 pi. 105 (lower figure). — Brimley, Journ. Elisha Mitchell Sci. Soc, vol. 

 30, no. 4, 1915, p. 202. — Lampropeltis doliatus cocdneus Wright, Proc. 

 Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1915, pp. 142 and following, also p. 165, 

 fig. 5. 



1915. Osceola doliata doliata Wright, Proc Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, p. 139. 



The name Coluber doliatus of Linnaeus must, as Stejneger has 

 pointed out (1918, 99), be rejected as unidentifiable; it is unlikely 

 that it was intended for any form that we now know as Lampropeltis. 

 The next name to be considered, therefore, is the Coronella cocdnea 

 of Schlegel. He, without doubt, had the present species before him 



