griffin: ophidia from south America in carnegie museum 



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Family BOID^ Gray. 



Genus Boa* Linnaeus. 



3. Boa cooki (Gray). 



Corallus cookii Gray, Zool. Misc., 1842, p. 42. 

 Corallus cookii Boulenger, Cat. Snakes, I, 1893, p. 99. 



The five specimens in the collection are listed as follows: 



No. 137, (f, Bonda, Colombia, Elev. 150 ft.. Smith coll., June. 



No. 139, cf , Bonda, Colombia, Elev. 150 ft., Smith coll., Sept. 6 (in house). 



No. 142, c?, Bonda, Colombia, Elev. 150 ft., Smith coll., June. 



No. 204, 9 , Bonda, Colombia, Elev. 150 ft.. Smith coll., July. 



No. 1860, cf, South America (Colombia, H. H. Smith). 



Counts and Measurements. 



4. Boa hortulana (Linnseus). 



Coluber hortulanus Linnaeus, Mus. Ad. Frid., 1754, p. 37. 

 Boa hortulana Linn^us, Syst. Nat., Ed. XII, 1766, I, p. 374. 

 Corallus hortulanus Boulenger, Cat. Snakes, I, 1893, p. 101. 



The two specimens in our possession are the following: 



No. 370, cf , Entre Rios, Brazil, Haseman coll., June 4, 1908. 



No. 371, Entre Rios, Brazil, Haseman coll., June 4, 1908 (head only). 



Counts and Measurements. 



(No. 370 ) 



Anal 1 



Scale-rows 53 



Gastrosteges 266 



Urosteges 109 



Total length in mm 1,616 



Length of tail in mm 300 



< See Stejneger, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXIV, 1902, p. 184. 



