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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM 

 CONOPHIS PULCHER SIMILIS Bocourt 



Conophis pulcher plagosns Smith, Journ. Washington Acad. Sci., vol. 31, pp. 



121-122, 1941. 

 Conophis pulcher shnilis Smith, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 92. p. 395, 1942. 



The type of flagosus (No. 109707) was found near Tonahi, Chiapas, 

 moving about very slowly, during the day, at the base of a large bush 

 the outer branches of which well shaded the area where the snake 

 was lying. 



The Museum has no others. 



♦CONOPHIS VITTATUS VITTATUS Peters 



Five specimens are in the Museum, including No. 29123, 18 from 

 Guadalajara, Jalisco, and Nos. 31394-7, from Colima. 



CONOPHIS VITTATUS VIDUUS Cope 



Conophis vittatus viduus Smith, Journ. Washington Acad. Sci., vol. 31, pp. 

 120-121, 1941. 



Seven specimens were secured in the vicinity of Tehuantepec, 

 Oaxaca (Nos. 109709-14; HMS No. 12100). Supralabials 7-7 in all; 

 infralabials 8-9 in three, 9-9 in two, 9-10 in two; preoculars 1-1 in 

 all; postoculars 2-3 in one, 2-2 in the remainder; two primary tem- 

 porals in all, two to four secondary temporals; scale rows 19-19-17 

 in all. 



The Museum has two others, both from "Tehuantepec" 19 (No. 

 30259, type of viduits, and No. 30258, cotype of sumwhrasti) . 



Table 6. — Variation in Conophis vittatus viduus 



CONOPSIS NASUS Giiniher 



Conopsis nasus Taylor and Smith, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., vol. 28, pp. 329- 

 332, 1942. 



Eight specimens were secured, three at Guanajuato, Guanajuato 

 (Nos. 110663-5), one 10 miles east of Morelia, Michoacan (No. 



" r^ectoholotype cotype of Conophis sumichrasti sumichrasti Cope, 1876, p. 1"". 

 10 Cope, 187G, p. 137. 



