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Ptjebla: Atlixco (No. 46433). San Luis Potosi: Jesus Maria (No. 

 40554). Two final specimens (No. 8321 [2]) bear the data "between 

 Chihuahua and Mexico." 



PITUOPHIS DEPPEI JAM (Cope) 



Pituophis deppei jani Smith, Publ. Field Mus. Nat. Hist., zool. ser. (in press). 



Two very large males (No. 110890-1) were found a few kilometers 

 north of Ixmiquilpan, Hidalgo. 



The Museum has one other specimen, the type (No. 1522), from 

 Buenavista, Coahuila. 08 



PITUOPHIS DEPPEI LINEATICOLLIS (Cope) 



Two specimens were secured. One (No. 110892) is from near 

 Acultzingo, Veracruz. It is a specimen that had been dragged on 

 the asphalt pavement by a rope held by men on a truck direct toward 

 Orizaba, from Tehuacan. The snake had been dragged by the tail, 

 and apparently from no great distance, since only the belly scales 

 have been scored, and these only relatively little. In all probability 

 the snake was killed in the vicinity of Pajaro Verde (near the crest 

 of the pass) and dragged only from there halfway down the slope to 

 Acultzingo, before it was cast aside on bushes by the road. It 

 certainly could have been dragged from no greater distance than 

 Tehuacan (some 35 km.), else the scales w T ould have been completely 

 mutilated and impossible to count. 



In this specimen the scale rows are 27-29-21; ventrals 231; caudals 

 67; supralabials 9-?; infralabials 12-?; loreal 1-1; labials entering 

 eye, fifth and sixth; no azygous scale; spots on body about 33, on tail 

 12 ; male. 



The second specimen (No. 110893) is a female from San Pedro 

 Quiechapa, Oaxaca. Scale rows 27-27-21; ventrals 245; caudals 62; 

 supralabials 8-8, fourth and fifth entering orbit; infralabials 11-12; 

 preoculars 1-1; postoculars 2-3; loreals 1-1; spots on body 29, on 

 tail 9. 



The Oaxaca specimen is perfectly typical, its characters falling well 

 within the limits of variation shown by Stull (1940, pp. 47-52, fig. 26) . 

 The Veracruz specimen, however, is not typical, and approaches the 

 characters of deppei deppei. The chief differences between the two 

 species are: 



1 Cope, I860, p. 360 ; Stull, 1040, p. 41. 



