178 OPHIDIA. 
2. Dryiophis fulgida. 
Coluber fulgidus, Daud. Hist. Nat. Rept. vi. p. 532, t. 80. 
Dryiophis fulgidus, Boie, Isis, 1827, p. 546; Wagl. Ic. t.10; Giinth. Cat. Col. Sn. p. 158; Cope, 
Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. no. 82, p. 68; Ives, Proc. Ac. N. Se. Phil. (1891) 1892, p. 460. 
Oxybelis fulgidus, Dum. & Bibr. Erpét. vii. p. 817. 
Dryiophis catesbyi, Schleg. Ess. il. p. 252; Abbild. t. 14. figg. 3-6. 
Hab. Mexico, Tehuantepec (Sumichrast), Yucatan (Mus. Brit.); British Honpuras | 
— (Mus. Brit.); Sauvapor (Dow); Panama (Dow).—Soutu America to BRAZIL. 
The number of upper labial shields varies between nine and ten, the fourth, fifth, 
and sixth, or the fifth, sixth, and seventh entering the orbit. 
3. Dryiophis brevirostris. 
Dryiophis brevirostris, Cope, Proc. Ac. N. Se. Phil. 1860, p. 555; Journ. Ac. N. Sc. Phil. vin. 
p. 182, t. 26. fig. 2 (1875). 
Hab. Nicaragua, Chontales Mines (Ris); Costa Rica (Smithson. Inst.) ; PANaMa, 
Veraguas (Cope). | 
Addendum to page 140. 
The following snake, which the British Museum has received quite recently, is 
interesting in several respects, so that it appears desirable to insert its description at 
the earliest opportunity. 
NEOPAREAS, gen. nov. 
Body slender, strongly compressed; tail slender; head broad, deep, and short ; 
snout short; pupil of the eye vertical. Scales smooth, in fifteen rows, those of the 
vertebral series not enlarged; anal entire; subcaudals two-rowed. Upper labials 
narrow ; chin-shields not divided in the middle, gradually passing into the ventral 
shields. Maxillary teeth small, non-grooved. 
1. Neopareas bicolor, sp. n. (Tab. LVI. fig. C.) 
Hab. Nicaragua, Chontales Mines (£72). 
Vertical shield broad and large, nearly as large as an occipital; anterior frontals 
much broader than long, one-third of posterior. A large square shield occupies the 
space between the nasal and the eye; a small anteocular above it which does not 
reach the vertical ; three, sometimes four, postoculars; ten or eleven upper labials, of 
