Herpetological Review Volume 39, Number 2 — June 2008 SSAR Officers (2008) HERPETOLOGICAL REVIEW President The Quarterly News-Journal of the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles ROY MCDIARMID USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center Editor National Museum of Natural History ROBERT W. HANSEN Washington, DC 20560, USA 16333 Deer Path Lane Clovis, California 93619-9735, USA President-elect [email protected] BRIAN CROTHER Department of Biological Sciences Southeastern Louisiana University Associate Editors Hammond, Louisiana 70402, USA ROBERT E. ESPINOZA CHRISTOPHER A. PHILLIPS DEANNA H. OLSON California State University, Northridge Illinois Natural History Survey USDA Forestry Science Lab Secretary MARION R. PREEST ROBERT N. REED MICHAEL S. GRACE R. BRENT THOMAS Joint Science Department USGS Fort Collins Science Center Florida Institute of Technology Emporia State University The Claremont Colleges Claremont, California 91711, USA EMILY N. TAYLOR GUNTHER KÖHLER MEREDITH J. 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MITCHELL, Co-Editor Future Annual Meetings Department of Biology 2008 — Montreal, Canada, 23–28 July (with ASIH, HL) University of Richmond 2009 — Portland, Oregon, 22–27 July (with ASIH, HL) Richmond, Virginia 23173, USA 2010 — Providence, Rhode Island, 7–12 July (with ASIH, HL) 2011 — Minneapolis, Minnesota, 6–11 July (with ASIH, HL) declining in this recently discovered population. Herpetological Review, 2008, 39(2), 244–245. Submitted by J. ERIC WALLACE, School of Natural Re- © 2008 by Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles sources, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA (e- mail: [email protected]); ROBERT J. BRAUMAN, New Noteworthy Geographic Distribution Records for York City Department of Environmental Protection, 182 Joline Colubrid Snakes from the Arkansas Valley Avenue, Staten Island, New York 10307, USA; JOHN WINDES, Ecoregion of Westcentral Arkansas, USA 1128 West Emerine Drive, Tucson, Arizona 85704, USA; WILL- IAM P. BURGER, Arizona Game and Fish Department, 7200 East University, Mesa, Arizona 85207, USA; ERNEST J. NIGRO, HENRY W. ROBISON Department of Biology, Southern Arkansas University THOMAS C. BRENNAN, and ANDREW T. HOLYCROSS, Magnolia, Arkansas 71754, USA School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, Ari- e-mail: [email protected] zona 85287-4501, USA. and CHRIS T. McALLISTER TROPIDODIPSAS REPLETA (Black Snail-eating Snake). Department of Physical and Life Sciences, Chadron State College MEXICO: SONORA: MUNICIPIO DE YECORA: West slope of the Chadron, Nebraska 69337, USA Sierra Madre Occidental, west of Yecora Junction on Mex Hwy e-mail: [email protected] 16 (28.22336°N, 109.03293°W; WGS 84),1581 m elev. 17 Au- Thirty-eight species and subspecies of colubrid snakes occur in gust 2007. Young Cage and Kenneth Sharrocks. Verified by Jim Arkansas (Trauth et al. 2004). Since the compilation of Trauth et Rorabaugh. LACM PC 1446. Second record for Sonora (Smith et al. (op. cit.), numerous investigators have recently reported new al. 2005. Bull. Maryland Herpetol. Soc. 41:39–41), and only the county records for colubrids in various parts of the state (Engelbert third documented specimen of T. repleta (Lemos Espinal and Smith and Patrick 2007; Engelbert et al. 2007; Howey and Dinkelacker 2007. Amphibians and Reptiles of the State of Chihuahua México, 2007; Plummer and McKenzie 2007; Robison and McAllister Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and CONABIO). The 2007). Between December 2005 and September 2006, additional snake was found DOR in pine-oak forest. geographic (new county) records for eight species of colubrids Submitted by ERIC A. DUGAN, Department of Earth and Bio- were collected from Johnson, Pope, and Yell counties of the Ar- logical Sciences, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, California kansas Valley of west-central Arkansas. Township, section, and 92350, USA (e-mail: [email protected]); YOUNG CAGE, 5839 range are provided for each locality. Specimens were verified by West Sonoran Links Lane, Marana, Arizona 85653, USA (e-mail: S. E. Trauth and vouchers are deposited in the Arkansas State [email protected]); and