MEXICAN SNAKES AND CROCODILIANS — SMITH 407 



The specimens were most frequently found in piles of rotting debris 

 in banana patches. 



The Museum has one other specimen (No. 30299) , from Tehuantcpec. 



CONIOPHANES PICEIVITTIS Cope 



Two small females (Nos. 109804, 109805) were collected in the 

 vicinity of Tehuantepec, Oaxaca. One of these (No. 109805) was found 

 by army ants, routed from the leaves where it attempted to hide and 

 brush off the ants, and eventually the snake wriggled off the edge of 

 a bank into our camp site beside a stream. 



Scutellation of head typical, except lower labials 9-9 in one. Ven- 

 trals 172, 173, respectively; caudals 83, 86. Scale rows 23-25-19 in 

 both. 



The Museum has two others, the cotypes (Nos. 30264-5 ) 15 from 

 Chihuitan, Oaxaca. 



CONIOPHANES QUINQUEVTTTATUS (Dumeril and Bibron) 



One specimen (No. 109806) was presented to me by Dr. Manuel 

 Maldonado K., of the Institute Politecnico de Mexico. It was col- 

 lected by Dr. Alfonse Dampf. The locality data are lost. Male, 

 ventrals 153, tail incomplete. 



The Museum has one other, from "Coatzacoalcos River, Veracruz" 

 (No. 61182), 16 the type of Hydrops lubricus Cope (1871, p. 217). 



CONOPHIS LINEATUS LINEATUS (Dumeril and Bibron) 



Conopliis Hneatus lineatus Smith, Journ. Washington Acad. Sci , vol 31 p 122 

 1941. 



A single specimen in the collection (No. 109708) , secured by Dyfrig 

 McH. Forbes, was taken at Paso del Macho, Veracruz. It is a female 

 with 166 ventrals, 55+ ? caudals, 19-19-17 scale rows, 8-8 suprala- 

 bials, 10-10 infralabials, 1-1 preoculars, 2-2 postoculars, and 2-2 

 temporals. The pattern has previously been described. Another 

 specimen (C. A. S. 73640) from Veracruz, Veracruz, has a pattern 

 exactly as the former, and is similar in scutellation ; the ventrals are 

 167, the caudals 70(5). 



The Museum has no others. 



•CONOPHIS LINEATUS CONCOLOR Cope 



The Museum has three specimens, one from Chichen Itza, Yuca- 

 tan (No. 46395), and the two cotypes from "Yucatan" (No. 12368). ir 



" Cope, 1869, p. 149 ; Bailey, 1939, p. 31. 

 14 Bailey, 1939, p. 28. 

 1T Cope, 1867b, p. 318. 



