MEXICAN" SNAKES AND CROCODILIANS — SMITH 453 



*MICRURUS DIASTEMA DISTANS (Kennicott) 



A single specimen (No. 1144) the type, is in the Museum, from 

 Batosegachie, Chihuahua. 60 



MICRURUS DIASTEMA MICHOACANENSIS (Duges) 



A single specimen (No. 111333) was found 4 km. north of Apatziiv 

 gan, Michoacan. It was captured at night, crawling on the ground 

 near the bank of a stream. It is a male with 15 scale rows, 208 

 ventrals, 50 caudals, 7-7 supralabials and infralabials, 1-1 preoculars, 

 2-2 postoculars, 1-1-2 temporals, 7-3 black rings on body and tail. 



The Museum has no others. 



♦MICRURUS ELEGANS ELEGANS (Jan) 



Four specimens in the Museum are from Mirador, Veracruz (Nos. 

 6367, 25041-3). 



MICRURUS EPHIPPIFER (Cope) 



Three specimens are from the state of Oaxaca : Tehuantepec (No. 

 111328) ; Cerro Arenal (No. 111329) ; and La Concepcion (No. 

 111330). The specimen from Cerro Arenal was found at night with 

 the aid of a lantern, as it crawled in the bottom of a dry arroyo. 

 All have 15 scale rows, 7-7 supralabials and infralabials, 1-1 preocu- 

 lars, 2-2 postoculars, and 1-1-2 temporals; the ventrals are 228, 213, 

 214, respectively; the caudals are 41 ( 5 ), 51 ( $ ), 52 ( $ ), respec- 

 tively, primary black rings on body and tail 23-5, 18-6, 19-6. The 

 complete black rings are separated from each other by two yellow 

 rings enclosing a red ring the dorsal part of which is all black; the 

 black in the red areas reaches the second or third scale rows. 



The Museum has two others — the type (No. 30085) from Tehuan- 

 tepec and one (No. 46559) from Huilotepec, Oaxaca. 



MICRURUS FITZINGERI FITZINGERI (Jan) 



Micrurus fitzmgeri fifzinffcri Brown and Smith, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 

 vol. 55, pp. 63-65, 1942. 



One specimen (No. 111334), found crushed in the road between 

 Kilometers 62 and 63, 12 to 13 km. north of Cuernavaca, Morelos, well 

 in the pine zone, has previously been described. 



The Museum has two others, both from "Guanajuato'' (Nos. 10231, 

 14432). 



*MICRURUS FULVIUS TENERE (Baird and Girard) 



A single Mexican specimen is in the Museum, from Alta Mira, Ta- 

 maulipas (No. 46523). 



60 Kennicott, 1860, p. 338. 



