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Virginia B. and G. (Cat. No. Am. Serp., p. 127. 1853). 



Type Virginia Vcdcrice B. and G. By crrigmal designation. 



Ficimia Gray (Cat. Sn. Br. Mus., p. 80. 1849). 



^lonotype Ficimia olivacea Gray. 



Chilomeniscus Cope (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila.. 1860. p. 339). 



^lonotype Chilomeniscus stramineus Cope. 



Cemophora Cope (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1860, p. 244). 



Type Coluber coccineus Blum. By original designation. 



Rhinochilus B. and G. (Cat. No. Am. Serp., p. 120, 1853). 



Type Rhinochilus Lecontei B. and G. By original designation. 



Hypsijlena Cope (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1860, p. 246). 



Type Hypsiglena ochrorhyncha Cope. By original designation. 



Rhadinea Cope (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1863, p. 10). 



Type Tceniophis vermiculaticeps Cope. By original designation. 



Prof. Cope subsequently (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1868, 132) 

 named R. melanocephala D. and B. as the type, and again {Rep. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus., 1898, p. 754) he says the type is R. obtusa Cope. The 

 genus was, however, distinctly founded upon T. vermiculaticeps on its 

 first publication in 1863. 



Heterodon Latreille (Hist. Nat. des Kept., IV, p. 32, 1800). 



^Monotype Heterodon platyrhinus Latr. 



Trimorphodon Cope (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1861, p. 297). 



Type Trimorphodon lyrophanes Cope. By original designation. 



Leptodira Fitzinger (Syst. Kept., p. 27, 1843). 



Type Dipsas anmdatus Schl. By original designation. Sihon Fitz. 

 {Neue Class Rept., 1826, p. 29) can not be used for this genus of opistho- 

 glyph snakes. It has, by tautonomy, f or type Coluber nebulatus Linn. 

 (= Coluber sibon Linn.), which is the type of Petalognathus Dum. and 

 Bib. 



Manolepis Cope (Proc. Am. Philos. Soc, 1885, p. 76). 



Type Tomodon nasutus Cope. By original designation. 



Concphis Peters (Monats. Berl. Acad., 1860. p. 519). 



jMonotype Conophis vittatus Peters. 



Erythrolamprus Boie (Isis. 1826, p. 981). 



Monotype Coluber venustissimus Pr. Max. 

 = Coniophanes Hallow. (1S60). Type C. fissidens. 

 Scolecophis Fitzinger (Syst. Rept., p. 25, 1843). 



Type Calamaria atrocincta SchL By original designation. 



