This is a gorgeous snake, Bert. Please excuse my ignorance as I'm not all that knowledgeable about Asian ratsnakes - I keep Elaphe helena and enjoy looking at people's beautiful snakes on this board. I gather these are a kind of Chinese bamboo ratsnake? Normally if I haven't heard a Latin name before I put it into Google to find out the full species name and English name, but on putting "Laticinctus" into Google, all I could find was stuff on subspecies of copperheads. Can you enlighten me?? Thanks, Jessica