698 REPTILES—COLUBRIDA. 
harmless. An anomaly sometimes occurs in regard to the cephalic plates, ag 
in the case of aspecimen before me, which has four postorbitals on one side 
and two on the other, and also has a couple of labials united. 
STORERIA OCCIPITO-MACULATA Storer. 
Red=bellied Storeria. 
Coluber occipito-maculata, STORER. 
Coluber venustus, HALLOWELL. 
Storeria occipito-maculata, BAIRD and GIRARD, COPE, JORDAN. 
Ichnognathus occipito-maculata, GUNTHER. 
General color above grayish to dark-brown, with at times dark spots arranged in 
longitudinal band ; three light spots in the nuchal region ; beneath red or salmon-color to 
white, sometimes with red upon the flanks and white between; vertical plate sub-pen- 
tangular, longer than broad, nearly or quite equal to commissural line of occipitals ; 
anteorbitals two ; nostril in the anterior nasal; upper labials, 5-6, lower, 6-7, on a side; 
dorsal scales im 15 rows; gastrosteges, 125-130; urosteges, 40-50. Length, 10 inches; 
head, 4 lines; tail, 2 inches; transverse diameter of head, 2 lines; of neck, 14 lines; 
circumference of body 1 inch. 
Habitat, Maine, New York, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Georgia, Kentucky, Illi- 
nois, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, 
Not rare about Columbus. It is somewhat nocturnal, and lives chiefly 
under logs and stones. 
GENUS CARPHOPHIS. Gervais. 
Body slender, cylindrical, of nearly uniform thickness; head and neck not separable, 
the former tapering to a pointed snout ; teeth equal, smooth; vertical plate very broad ; 
supercilaries exceedingly narrow; occipitals moderate; postorbitals one; anteorbitals 
one; frontals one or two pairs; inframaxillaries small; dorsal scales in 13 rows, all 
smooth; gastrosteges, 120-135; anal plate bifid. 
Frontal plates in two pairs. a. 
Frontal plates a single pair ; abdomen flesh-colored ; extralimital. . . C.HELENZ. 
a. Color above lustrous purplish-black ; abdomen flesh-colored, extending over the 
third row of scales; extralimital. ° ° 5 . 5 ° C. VERMIS. 
a. Color above chestnut-brown. : 4 6 : : C, AMGNUS. 
CARPHOPHIS AM@NUS Say. 
Ground or Worm Snake. 
Coluber amenus, SAY, HARLAN, STORER. 
Calamaria amena, SCHLEGEL. 
Brachyorrhos amenus, HOLBROOK. 
Celuta amena, BAIRD and GIRARD. 
Carphophis amena, GERVAIS, DUMERIL and BIBRON, GUNTHER, 
Carphophiops amenus, COPE, JORDAN. 
General color above brown, without spots or bands; beneath salmon-red ; head small ; 
vertical plate irregular, hexagonal, pointed behind, about as broad as long, and equal 
