MEXICAN SNAKES AND CROCODILIANS — SMITH 

 Table 20. — Variation in Leptodeira maculata 



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LEPTODEIRA MYSTACINA Cope 



Three specimens were secured, one (No. 111221) 3 miles north of 

 Acapulco, Guerrero (under a flake on a boulder) ; one (No. 111222) 

 from Cerro Arenal, Oaxaca (at night in an arroyo, hunting geckos) ; 

 and one (No. 111223) on Cerro Guengola, Oaxaca. All have 19-19- 

 17 scale rows; the ventrals are 193, 194, 193, respectively; caudals 

 75 ( $ ), ?( 9 ), 66+ ( 9 ) ; preoculars and postoculars 2-2; temporals 

 1-2-3; spots on body 11, 11-13, 14-15; spots on tail 6-7 in No. 111223. 



The Museum has three others, the types from Tehuantepec, Oaxaca 

 (Nos. 30339-40), 53 and one from Acapulco, Guerrero (No. 46551). 



♦LEPTODEIRA PUNCTATA (Peters) 



A single specimen, the type of Leptodeira pacifica Cope, is in the 

 Museum (No. 6833), from Mazatlan, Sinaloa. 54 



53 Cope, 1869, p. 151. 



54 Cope, 1868b, p. 310. 



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