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Oficina Regional Guaymas, Guaymas, Sonora, México (e-mail:jventurat@yahoo.com.mx); JORGE H. VALDEZ-VILLAVICENCIO, Grupo de Ecología y Conservación de Islas,A.C. Ave. López Mateos 1590-3 Fracc. Playa Ensenada, Ensenada,Baja California, México, C.P. 22880 (e-mail:jorge.valdez@conservaciondeislas.org); and BRADFORD D.HOLLINGSWORTH, Department of Herpetology, San DiegoNatural History Museum, P.O. Box 121390, San Diego, California92112-1390, USA (e-mail: bhollingsworth@sdnhm.org).STENOCERCUS ROSEIVENTRIS (NCN). BRAZIL:RONDONIA: Municipality of Vilhena (12.7°S, 60.25°W). 24 October2007. A. Pansonato and E. Silva de Brito. Verified by C.Strüssmann. Coleção Zoológica de Vertebrados of the UniversidadeFederal de Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso, Brazil (UFMT 6269). Thespecies was known from western Amazon basin and eastern slopesof the central and southern Andes, in Peru, Brazil, Bolivia, andArgentina (Torres-Carvajal 2007. Herpetol. Monog. 21:76–178).Reported from Brazil from the state of Acre, by Etheridge (1970.In Peters and Orejas Miranda [eds.], Catalogue of the NeotropicalSquamata. Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. 297:254–258) (unvouchered), andTorres-Carvajal (2005. Phyllomedusa 4[2]:123–132). First staterecord and easternmost locality for the species, extends knowndistribution 1027 km southeast of Purus River (Torres-Carvajal,op. cit.).Submitted by ANDRÉ PANSONATO (e-mail: andrepan@hotmail.com),ELIZÂNGELA SILVA BRITO (e-mail:esbbr@yahoo.com.br), and DRÁUSIO HONÓRIO MORAIS,Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso,Av. Fernando Corrêa da Costa, 780760-900 Cuiabá, Mato Grosso,Brazil (e-mail: amblyommavt@gmail.com).SQUAMATA – SNAKESCOLUBER (=MASTICOPHIS) TAENIATUS (StripedWhipsnake). MÉXICO: AGUASCALIENTES: Municipality ofTepezalá: Western side of Cerro Altamira, 2 km airline E from thetown Tepezalá (22.234032°N, 102.139619°W; NAD 27), 2299 melev. 31 July 2004. Jorge Ivan Sigala-Rodríguez. Museo deZoología, Departamento de Biología, Universidad Autónoma deAguascalientes (UAA-VR-00317). Municipality of El Llano: 5km airline E from El Llano (21.92441667°N, 101.93025°W; NAD27), 2120 m. elev. 22 September 2005. Rarámuri Reyes Ardit.UAA-VR-00318. Municipality of Asientos: 2 km N vicinity ofLas Adjuntas, Asientos (22.055990°N, 101.922762°W; NAD 27),2044 m elev. 06 June 2006. Gustavo E. Quintero-Díaz and JoelVázquez-Díaz. UAA-VR-00319. All verified by Jeffrey D. Camper.First records for Aguascalientes, and fills the approximate 300 kmdistributional gap between the closest previous records at 13.1 kmESE of Tepetatillo, Jalisco (CAS 165260) and two specimens(FMNH 106181; CAS 165223) from north of Ciudad Zacatecas,Zacatecas (Camper and Dixon 1994. Ann. Carnegie Mus. 63:1–48). All snakes were found on rocky hillsides covered with lowermontane dry forest vegetation, as classified by Campbell (1999.In W. E. Duellman [ed.], Patterns of Distribution of Amphibians:A Global Perspective, pp. 111–210. John Hopkins Univ. Press,Baltimore, Maryland).Submitted by J. JESÚS SIGALA-RODRÍGUEZ, Departmentof Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Corson Hall, Cornell University,Ithaca, New York 14853-2701, USA (e-mail:js324@cornell.edu); JOEL VÁZQUEZ-DÍAZ, Departamento deInvestigación y Desarrollo Tecnológico, Internacional de Relojes,Arte y Diseño S. A. de C. V., Ave. Aguascalientes Sur 203, Fracc.Prados del Sur, Aguascalientes 20280, México; and GUSTAVOE. QUINTERO-DÍAZ, JORGE IVAN SIGALA-RODRÍGUEZ, and RARAMURI REYES ARDIT, UniversidadAutónoma de Aguascalientes, Centro de Ciencias Básicas,Departamento de Biología, Ave. Universidad 940, Aguascalientes,20100, México.CROTALUS ATROX (Western Diamondback Rattlesnake). USA:TEXAS: CALDWELL CO.: Plumb Creek Farm off Farm Road 672, 3miles NE of Lockhart (29.8983833°N, 97.6494667°W). 01 February2006. Verified by J. R. Dixon, Texas A&M University, TexasCooperative Wildlife Collection. TCWC 90669. New county record(Dixon 2000. Amphibians and Reptiles of Texas. Texas A&MUniversity Press, College Station, Texas. 148 pp.). A total of 3adult females, 1 adult male, and 1 juvenile female Crotalus atroxwere collected from an old farm shed under a wood pile. Theseare the first reported specimens from within Caldwell County. Eachindividual was measured, weighed, and had a blood sample (MF-19885,19914–19917) and digital photo taken. The specimensranged in size from SVL length of 38–96 cm and tail length of 22–71 mm. One individual was retained as a specimen voucher andpreserved and accessioned into the Texas Cooperative WildlifeCollection (TCWC 90669).Submitted by MELISSA JONES, JEFF TROY, and M.R.J.FORSTNER, Department of Biology, Texas State University atSan Marcos, San Marcos, Texas 78666, USA; e-mail:mj46953@txstate.edu.CROTALUS PUSILLUS (Tancitaran Dusky Rattlesnake).MÉXICO: JALISCO: Municipality Quitupan: 24.5 km (by road)S of Valle de Juarez (19.42630°N, 102.57527°W, WGS 84), 2288m elev. 06 August 2007. Chris I. Grünwald and Jason M. Jones.Verified by Robert W. Bryson, Jr. UTA Digital Collection 1087.Fills a distributional gap of ca. 160 km between Nevado de Colima(14.4 km W of Atenquique, Jalisco) and Carapan, Michoacán(Campbell and Lamar 2004. The Venomous Reptiles of the WesternHemisphere, Vol. II. Comstock Pub. Assoc., Ithaca, New York,xiv + 477–870 pp.). The snake was found AOR at night in an areaof humid pine-oak forest.Submitted by JACOBO REYES-VELASCO, CentroUniversitario de Ciencias Biológicas y Agropecuarias, Carreteraa Nogales Km. 15.5. Las Agujas, Nextipac, Zapopan, Jalisco,México (e-mail: jackobz@gmail.com); CHRISTOPH I.GRÜNWALD, 450 Jolina Way, Encinitas, California 92024, USA(e-mail: cgruenwald@switaki.com); and JASON M. JONES,16310 Avenida Florencia, Poway, California 92064, USA (e-mail:jjones@switaki.com).DIADOPHIS PUNCTATUS (Ring-necked Snake). USA: MIS-SOURI: PERRY CO.: limestone bluffs along Apple Creek near PCR614, Biehle (37.631861°N, 89.866167°W; WGS84). 01 October2006. Richard L. Essner, Jr. Verified by Paul E. Brunkow, SouthernIllinois University Edwardsville (SIUE 2948). New county240 Herpetological Review 39(2), 2008