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Nerodia fasciata fasciata, Banded Water Snake 
SAMPSON CO.: Laurel Lake, 4.8 km (3 mi.) e of Salemburg, Sep- 
tember 1958. Two neonates, among a litter of 9 produced by a female of 
the normal phenotype, had red pupils and tongues and a white dorsal 
groundcolor with faint pink crossbands. The other siblings had typical 
patterns. 
Nerodia taxispilota, Brown Water Snake 
BLADEN-PENDER CO.: county line, along Black River, May 
1961, American Museum of Natural Elistory (1 12347). An adult male 
had a pale yellowish dorsum with fine light brown stippling and without 
traces of blotches. The venter was whitish with pale brown markings, and 
the eyes were dark. 
Virginia striatula, Rough Earth Snake 
WAKE CO.: Cary, 4 April 1978, NCSM 20448. A female (about 200 
mm TL), found under debris with several specimens of the normal 
phenotype, had red pupils and a pink tongue. The parietal band was pale 
yellow and faint. The remainder of the dorsum was pinkish tan, near 
Salmon (6). The venter was light gray, near Smoke Gray (44). Color 
transparencies from life are in NCSM. 
Diadophis punctatus ssp., Ringneck Snake 
DAVIDSON CO.: 1 1.3 km (7 mi.) s of Denton, May 1979, NCSM 
20077. This female (348 mm SVL, 443 mm TL) had a pale olive brown 
dorsum, a light yellow neck ring bordered by brown, white labials and 
chin, and reddish brown eyes with dark pupils. The anterior venter was 
pale yellow, grading to orange yellow posteriorly, and the midventral 
spots were grayish brown. The snake, although not albinistic to the 
degree shown in most species here described, was nonetheless con- 
spicuously paler than typical specimens from the state and we consider it 
an amelanistic variant. Color transparencies from life are in NCSM. 
Carphophis amoenus amoenus, Eastern Worm Snake 
ROWAN CO.: 4.8 km (3 mi.) nw of Salisbury, 11 April 1979, 
NCSM 20454. A female about 240 mm TL, collected in a suburban yard 
and described by R. B. Julian (pers. comm.), was uniformly whitish with 
a dark pink tongue and reddish eyes. 
Farancia abacura abacura, Eastern Mud Snake 
HERTFORD CO.: Wiccacon River swamp, near confluence with 
Chowan River, 5.6 km (3.5 mi.) ne of Harrellsville, 17 July 1947, NCSM 
3193. Hensley (1959) reported this adult on the basis of information 
received from the late Harry T. Davis, former director of NCSM, who 
apparently neglected to include its description. Color transparencies 
made of the living snake show that the dorsum was uniformly pinkish. 
Eye color cannot be ascertained from the photographs, but it appears to 
have been dark. Mounted and exhibited for more than 30 years, this 
