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MEMOIRS OF THE CARNEGIE MUSEUM 



Counts and Measurements. 



(No. 19.) 



Anal 



Scale-rows 



Gastrosteges 



Urosteges 



Upper labials 



Preoculars 



Postoculars 



Temporals 



Total length in mm.. . 

 Length of tail in mm. 



(No. 24.) 



(No. 27.) 



40. Liophis viridis Giinther. 

 Liophis viridis Gunther, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (3), IX, 1862, p. 58, PI. IX, fig. 2. 

 Liophis viridis Boulenger, Cat. Snakes, II, 1894, p. 135. 



The specimens in the Carnegie Museum are listed as follows: 



No. 281, cf, South America, LeBouteUer collection. 



No. 316, 9 , Lagoa de Joao Pereira, Brazil, J. D. Haseman coll., December 23, 1907. 

 No. 344, 9 , Bom Jesus de Lapa, Bahia, Brazil, J. D. Haseman coU. 

 No. 344 is defective, having in part lost its tail. 



Counts and Measurements. 



Anal 



Scale-rows 



Gastrosteges 



Urosteges 



Upper labials 



Preoculars 



Postoculars 



Temporals 



Total length in mm. . . 

 Length of tail in mm. . 



(No. 281.) 



(No. 316.) 



(No. 344.) 



* Tip of tail lost. 



Genus Lystrophis Cope. 



41. Lystrophis histricus (Jan). 



Heterodon histricus Jan, Arch. Zool. Anat. Phys., II, 1863, p. 224. 

 Lystrophis histricus Boulenger, Cat. Snakes, II, 1894, p. 152. 



The only specimen of this species in the possession of the Carnegie Museum 

 (No. 331) was taken at Sao Matias, Bolivia, by J. D. Haseman, May 7, 1909. It 

 is a male. 



Snout, to level of eyes, brown; a darker brown band across the eyes, followed 

 by another, which is interrupted in the middle, and ends on each side back of the 



