200 THE HERPETOLOGY OF CUBA. 



in Cope's type of the synonymous A. fulvwn in the U. S. N. M. We should say 

 that this species seems to be a little more abundant than A . taeniatum but it 

 also is rare and entirely unknown to most native Cubans. 



65. Arrhyton redimitum (Cope). 



Diagnosis: — A small longitudinally striped burrowing snake, having 

 very few ventral scales (about 141) and but one loreal and one prefrontal. 



Description: — (After Cope). One preocular, one loreal, one nasal. Ros- 

 tral plate small, obtuse. Dorsal scales smooth, poreless, in seventeen rows. 

 Tail elongate. Inferior labials, nine. Fide Bocourt ventrals 141, caudals 120. 



Colour: — (Aiter Cope). Brownish gray, lighter beneath. A narrow 

 dark Une along the fom-th row of scales. Another line upon the vertebral 

 series. Two hght occipital spots. 



We know nothing of this species, which Stejneger {loc. cit., p. 287) concludes 

 to be vaUd. We had beheved that it was a synonym of A . vittatum until we read 

 Stejneger's account {q. v.). Only two specimens have been recorded, one, the 

 type (lost) but partially described by Cope, and a second by Bocom-t. 



It is either not Cuban at all or else excessively rare, while the possibiUty 

 that the records are based upon anomalous specimens is by no means excluded, 

 indeed rendered more probable, for in 1918 three additional examples of ^ . taeni- 

 atum were found at Soledad near Cienfuegos (Barbour) and one A . vittatum. was 

 taken near Cojimar (Senor Feiinin Cervera). 



REPTILIA: TESTUDINATA. 



Testudinidae. 

 66. PsETJDEMYS PALUSTRis (Gmelin). 

 Plate 15, fig. 14-16. 



Jicotea; Jarico (cf). 



Description: — 



" Adult female; U. S. N. M. No. 25642; San Juan; [Porto Rico] January 14, 1899. Shell 

 moderately convex, the height being more than one-half the greatest width; length of cara- 

 pace less than two and a half times tlie height of the sliell and about one and one-third times 

 its greatest width; carapace faintly keeled and with longitudinal WTinkles crossed by radiat- 

 ing ridges, which are especially strong on the anterior costals; nuchal narrow; first vertebral 

 shield urceolate, anterior and posterior sutures of same length; lateral sutures of second, 



