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Title: A New Snake of the Genus Geophis From Chihuahua, Mexico

Author: John M. Legler

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UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS PUBLICATIONS
MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

Volume 11, No. 4, pp. 327-334, 2 figs.
January 28, 1959

A New Snake of the Genus Geophis
From Chihuahua, Mexico

BY

JOHN M. LEGLER

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
LAWRENCE
1959

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS PUBLICATIONS, MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

Editors: E. Raymond Hall, Chairman, Henry S. Fitch, Robert W. Wilson

Volume 11, No. 4, pp. 327-334
Published January 28, 1959

University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas

PRINTED IN
THE STATE PRINTING PLANT
TOPEKA, KANSAS
1959

A New Snake of the Genus Geophis From Chihuahua, Mexico

BY

JOHN M. LEGLER

In July, 1957, members of a field party from the University of Kansas
Museum of Natural History, under the direction of Mr. Sydney Anderson,
spent 12 days collecting vertebrates in the vicinity of Creel in
southwestern Chihuahua. Among the specimens are two snakes representing
an undescribed species of the genus _Geophis_. A description and
illustrations of these two specimens were prepared and submitted for
publication in the spring of 1958. At that time it came to my attention
that Dr. Norman Hartweg, Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan, was
also preparing a report on four specimens of the same species from two
additional localities in southwestern Chihuahua. Upon learning of my
work on the species, Dr. Hartweg generously loaned me his specimens and
notes and allowed me to incorporate them in the present report. The
snakes may be known and described as:

_Geophis aquilonaris_ new species

_Holotype._--Adult female, KU 44265, alcoholic; 23 mi. S and 1-1/2
mi. E Creel, Chihuahua, Mexico; 23 July 1957; original number 198,
Ronald H. Pine.