£?</ . 06 73 Vol. 76, pp. 305-306 31 December 1963 PROCEEDINGS OF THE BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON DISTRIBUTIONAL NOTES ON SOME VIRGINIA REPTILES By William L. Witt 1412 Patrick Henry Drive, Arlington, Virginia Clemmys guttata In the collection of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, is a specimen of the spotted turtle ( MCZ 45979, shell length 98 mm ) taken at Magnolia Swamp, Augusta County, Virginia, in 1940. Magnolia Swamp is located on the south fork of the Shenandoah River at the crossing of the Nor-folk and Western Railroad nearest the intersection with County Route 658, 4 miles south of Stuart's Draft. I found the species still there in June 1962. This represents a range extension of 110 miles southward from Charles Town, West Virginia, the previous southernmost record in the Shenandoah Valley (M. G. Netting, Proc. W. Va. Acad. Sci., 14: 146-147, 1940). Opheodrys v. vernalis Linzey ( Herpetologica, 15 ( 2 ) : 94, 1959 ) listed the eastern smooth green snake from Iron Mine Hollow (presumably at the overlook at milepost 96.5 ) , Blue Ridge Parkway, Botetourt County, but failed to mention that this was the southernmost record for the species in the Blue Ridge. Two additional speci-mens have been taken in Shenandoah National Park, at the eastern edge of Big Meadows, Madison County (USNM 145929, S-V length 330 mm), and near milepost 97 at Jarman Gap, Augusta County (USNM 146633, S-V length 350 mm). These are the first records of the species from these counties, and the species is now known from six Blue Ridge counties: Amherst, Augusta, Botetourt, Madison, Page, and Rockbridge. Tantilla c. coronata The southeastern crowned snake has been reported in Vir-ginia only from Buckingham County (E. R. Dunn, Copeia, No. 36— Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., Vol. 76, 1963 (305) urtafi JAN 2 1<J83
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