Notes on a collection of amphibians and reptiles from New Kent County, Virginia

From May 10-30, 1938, the senior author made a collection of reptiles and amphibians on the property of Mr. W. R. Shackleford, near Lanexa, New Kent County, Virginia, which he donated to the Carnegie Museum.There are 231 specimens, representing 33 species, in the collection.The area in which the collection was made is a peninsula at the southern end of New Kent County, bounded on the north by the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, on the west and southwest by the Chickahominy River, and on the east and southeast by DiascundCreek.This peninsula is on the Atlantic Coastal Plain about forty miles east of the Fall Line.The northern end is a plateau which drops off to the river level in three terraces, the Wicomico, Chowan, and Pamlico.The center portion of each terrace is cleared and Annals of the Carnegie Museum VOL.