OHIO REPTILES IN THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY ZOOLOGICAL MUSEUM.
Max Morse.
Fam. Iguanidæ.
Sceloporous undulatus undulatus (Latr.). Sugar Grove.
Fam. Anguidæ.
Ophisaurus ventralis (Linn.). No. 57 has the following note in the accession catalogue:—“Donated by Dr. N. S. Townshend. Said by him to have been taken on the University farm.”
Fam. Scincidæ.
Eumeces quinquelineatus (Linn.). Columbus.
Fam. Colubridæ.
Carphophiops amoenus (Say.). This specimen is marked C. helenae Kenn. The internasal scutae are wanting. The specimen is from Meigs Co. Another specimen is in the collection but without label.
Diadophis punctatus (L.) Sugar Grove.
Heterodon platyrhinus Lat. Cedar Point. Both the spotted and the black forms occur on Cedar Point.
Liopeltis vernalis (DeKay.). Sandusky and Columbus.
Zamenis constrictor (Linn.). Hocking County.
Coluber vulpinus (B. and G.). The range of the fox snake, as given by Cope (Rept. U. S. Nat. Mus., ’98, p. 832) is “over the northwest of the Eastern district, not being known from east of Illinois***.” Specimens are taken from Cedar Point and vicinity nearly every summer. Those in the collection are from Castalia and Cedar Point.
Coluber obsoletus obsoletus Say. Columbus.
Osceola doliata triangula (Boie.). Columbus and London.
Natrix fasciata fasciata (Linn.). Warren County.
Natrix fasciata sipedon (Linn.). This is the common “water snake” of central Ohio. Specimens are from Sandusky and Columbus.
Natrix fasciata erythrogaster (Shaw.) Put-in-Bay. Among the islands of Lake Erie this seems to be the prevailing form. One young Natrix was taken during the summer of 1900 which resembled N. f. sipedon L., but aside from this all other forms were erythrogaster. It may be possible that the young of these two sub-species are not distinguishable—the differences arising later.
Natrix leberis (Linn.). Columbus and Sandusky.
Natrix kirtlandii (Kenn.). New London and Sugar Grove.
Storeria dekayi (Holb.). Columbus.
Storeria occipitomaculata (Storer). Sugar Grove and Kent.
Eutaenia sirtalis sirtalis (Linn.). Columbus.
Eutaenia sirtalis ordinata (Linn.). Columbus.
Eutaenia sirtalis obscura Cope. Cedar Point and Columbus.
Fam. Crotalidæ.
Ancistrodon contortrix (Linn.). Sugar Grove and Knox County.
Sistrurus catenatus catenatus (Raf.). Urbana.
Fam. Trionychidæ.
Aspidonectes spinifer (LeSueur.). Columbus.
Fam. Kinosternidæ.
Aromochelys odoratus (Lat.). Columbus and Cedar Point. In May and June, numbers of this turtle have been taken in the sand on Cedar Point, while depositing their eggs.
Fam. Emydidæ.
Graptemys geographicus (LeSueur.). Columbus, also taken at Sandusky.
Chrysemys marginata (Agassiz). Columbus and Cedar Point. The species picta does not occur in central Ohio—at least west of Licking Reservoir. One specimen has the normal three dorsal plates broken up into six which alternate with each other, three being on either side of the median line.
Clemmys guttatus (Sch.). Columbus and Licking Reservoir.
Emydoidea blandingi Holb. Columbus and Sandusky.
Terrapene carolina (Linn.). Very numerous at Sugar Grove. Found in sand on Cedar Point.
Summary for Reptiles:—Families 8; genera 22; species 30.