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ecord. First report from Perry County (Daniel and Edmond 2008.Atlas of Missouri Reptiles and Amphibians for 2007).Submitted by RICHARD L. ESSNER, JR. (e-mail:ressner@siue.edu) and RALPH W. AXTELL, Department of BiologicalSciences, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Illinois,62026, USA (e-mail: raxtell@siue.edu).DIPSAS GAIGEAE (Gaige’s Thirst Snake). MÉXICO:MICHOACÁN: Municipality of Aquila: 2.5 km N Maruata, onroad to Pomaro (18.174679°N, 103.204734°W; WGS 84), 32 melev. UTA Digital Collection 1084. 0.8 km E Maruata, on Hwy200 (18.162361°N, 103.202725°W; WGS 84), 17 m. elev. UTADigital Collection 1083. 15 August 2005. Daniel Grubb and JasonM. Jones. Verified by Jonathan A. Campbell. First records for thestate and a range extension of ca. 60 km S from previously knownrecords in southern Colima (Kofron 1982. J. Herpetol. 16:270–286). The snakes were AOR at night in tropical deciduous 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).ECHINANTHERA AFFINIS (Günther’s Forest Snake). BRA-ZIL: CEARÁ: Ubajara (03.8404722°S, 40.9076389°W; 896 melev.). 02 Jul 2007. D. Loebmann. Ubajara (03.8475278°S,40.8890833°W; 884 m elev.). 05 Sep 2007. H. Klein. ColeçãoInstituto Butantan, São Paulo, Brazil (IBSP 76363–76364). Verifiedby M. Trefaut Rodrigues. The species was known from thestates of Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina, Paraná, São Paulo,Rio de Janeiro, Minas Gerais, Espírito Santo, and Bahia (Di-Bernardo and De Lema 1988. Acta Biol. Leopol. 10[2]:223–252;Argôlo 1998. Herpetol. Rev. 29:176). These new records representan isolated population in the rain forests of Ibiapaba’s plateauand also are the first records for Ceará state. Extends distributionca. 1230 km N from Vitória da Conquista, Bahia state, Brazil(Argôlo, op. cit.).Submitted by DANIEL LOEBMANN, Departamento deZoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Estadual Paulista,Caixa Postal 199, CEP 13506-970, Rio Claro, São Paulo, Brazil;e-mail: contato@danielloebmann.com.LAMPROPELTIS CALLIGASTER OCCIPITOLINEATA(South Florida Mole Kingsnake). USA: FLORIDA: CHARLOTTECO.: 4.4 km NE of intersection of Graham Road and County Road74 (26.9711389°N, 81.6781667°W). 07 March 2008. Robert A.O’Horo. Adult male (825 mm SVL) collected alive on an unpavedroad at 1215 h in an area of dry prairie habitat surrounded by agriculturalfields. Verified by Kenneth L. Krysko. Florida Museumof Natural History photo voucher (UF 152523). New county record.Extends range ca. 22 km SE of the nearest record from DeSotoCo. (UF 152370). Vouchers of this subspecies also exist fromBrevard and Okeechobee counties (Layne et al. 1986. Florida Sci.49:171–175), and we have reports unsupported by vouchers fromnearby Glades, Indian River, and Osceola counties. A purportedspecimen (UMMZ 77481) collected from Leesburg, Lake Co.(Layne et al., op. cit.), was a misidentified Pantherophis guttatus(G. Schneider, pers. comm.).Submitted by ROBERT A. O’HORO, Florida Fish and WildlifeConservation Commission, 2423 Edwards Drive, Ft. Myers,Florida 33901, USA (e-mail: robert.ohoro@myfwc.com); andKEVIN M. ENGE, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission,1105 S.W. Williston Road, Gainesville, Florida 32601,USA (e-mail: kevin.enge@myfwc.com).LAMPROPELTIS TRIANGULUM ARCIFERA (JaliscoMilksnake). MÉXICO: MÉXICO: Municipality of Tejupilco,(18.51314°N, 100.25347°W; NAD27 México), 1800 m elev. 14April 2001. Octavio Vilchis. Verified by Óscar Sánchez. IBH15741. First record for Tejupilco and a 49.5 km range extensionW from the closest known locality at Sultepequito, México (Casasand Aguilar 1998. Biol. Soc. Herpetol. Mex. 8:22–24). The recordalso fills the distributional gap on the southcentral portion of theMexican Plateau that was depicted by Williams (1988. Systematicsand Natural History of the American Milk Snake, Lampropeltistriangulum. 2 nd revised ed. Milwaukee Pub. Mus., Milwaukee, 176pp.). The snake was found in pine-oak forest (Quercus ellipticaand Pinus oocarpa).Submitted by FELIPE RODRÍGUEZ-ROMERO, OCTAVIOMONROY-VILCHIS, and OSWALDO HERNÁNDEZ-GALLEGOS, Facultad de Ciencias, Centro de Investigación enRecursos Bióticos–CIRB, Universidad Autónoma del Estado deMéxico, Instituto Literario # 100, 50000, Toluca, Estado de México,México (e-mail: fjrr@uaemex.mx).LAMPROPELTIS TRIANGULUM SYSPILA (Red Milksnake).USA: ARKANSAS: PULASKI CO.: 34.791535°N, 92.487877°W;WGS84, 195 m elev. 29 March 2007. UALR HPC 0001.34.475527°N, 92.342141°W, WGS84, 165 m elev. 03 April 2007.UALR HPC 0002. Verified by M. V. Plummer. New county records(Trauth et al. 2004. Amphibians and Reptiles of Arkansas. Universityof Arkansas Press, Fayetteville, Arkansas. 421 pp.).Allocation to L. t. syspila based upon features of distinctive colorationand markings (Conant and Collins 1998. A Field Guide toReptiles and Amphibians of Eastern and Central North America.3rd ed. Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston, Massachusetts. 616 pp.).UALR HPC 0001 was captured under a piece of discarded carpetwithin a utility right-of-way adjacent to a mixed hardwood woodlot.It is currently housed as a live specimen within the University ofArkansas at Little Rock Biology Department and will be preservedas an alcohol specimen upon its death. The adjacent area fromwhich UALR HPC 0001 was captured is currently undergoingdevelopment as a gated housing community. Urban sprawl in LittleRock might pose a threat to the habitat for L.t. syspila at this particularlocality.UALR HPC 0002 was captured at a private residence within amixed hardwood forest and was photographed and released at thecapture site. An additional individual was sighted 15 August 2007at the same location as UALR HPC 0002.Submitted by DARRELL R. HEATH, DAVID W. CLARK,and KRYSTIAN A. SAMEK, Department of Biology, Universityof Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, Arkansas 72204, USA(e-mail: drheath@ualr.edu).Herpetological Review 39(2), 2008 241