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Dark lines, besides, follow each of the other series of scales. Each upper labial with 
a bright-yellow, dark-edged spot; a pair of yellow spots on each side of the neck, at 
the commencement of the lateral band. Lower parts uniform whitish. 
The maxillary is armed with thirteen or fourteen teeth, rather closely set; the 
anterior are small, but the teeth become gradually longer and stronger towards the 
middle, and still more towards the end of the jaw, there being no interspace between 
the hindmost and preceding teeth. | 
5. Coronella decorata. 
Coronella decorata, Giinth. Col. Sn. p. 35; Salv. P. Z. 8. 1860, p. 455. 
Rhadinea decorata, Cope, Journ. Ac. N. Sc. Phil. 1875, p. 140. 
? Diadophis decoratus, Garman, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool. viii. no. 3, p. 71 (1883) ; Bull. Essex Inst. 
xix. p. 127 (1887). 
Diadophis decoratus, Bocourt, Miss. Sc. Mex., Rept. p. 624, t. 40. figg. 3, 3 a-e. 
Enicognathus vittatus (part.), Jan, Arch. per la Zool. ti. p. 271 (1863), and Iconogr. xvi. t. 2. fig. 2 
(not fig. 3). 
Hab. Mexico (Sallé); Guatmmata, Volcan de Fuego (Salvin); Nicaragua (Cope); 
Costa Rica (Cope); Panama, Veragua (Cope). 
6. Coronella ignita. 
Dromicus ignitus, Cope, Proc. Ac. N. Se. Phil. 1871, p. 201. 
Rhadinea ignita, Cope, Journ. Ac. N. Se. Phil. vii. p. 140. 
Hab. Panama, Darien. 
7. Coronella vermiculaticeps. 
Teniophis vermiculaticeps, Cope, Proc. Ac. N. Sc. Phil. (1860) 1861, p. 249. 
Rhadinea vermiculaticeps, Cope, Journ. Ac. N. Sc. Phil. viii. p. 139. 
Hab. Cosva Rica (Cope); Panama, Veragua (Cope). 
8. Coronella quinquelineata. 
Rhadinea quinquelineata, Cope, Proc. Am. Phil. Soc. xxiii. p. 277 (1886) ; and Bull. U. 8S. Nat. Mus. 
no. 32, p. 79 (1887). 
Hab. Mexico, Zacualtipan (Cope), Tezuitlan in Puebla (Commiss. Geogr.). 
9. Coronella fulviceps. | 
Rhadinea fulviceps, Cope, Proc. Am. Phil. Soc. xxiii. p. 279 (1886) *. 
Hab. PANAMA. 
DROMICUS. 
Dromicus, Coct. et Bibr. in Ramon de la Sagra’s Hist. Cuba, Rept. p. 1382 (1843). 
Bocourt (Miss. Sc. Mex., Rept. p. 713) introduces into the Central-American fauna 
* The dentition of this snake is not described, and hence its place in Coronella is doubtful. 
