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Genus Spilotes Wagler. 



47. Spilotes puUatus (Linnaeus). 



Cohiber piillafus Linn^us, Mus. Ad. Frid., 1754, p. 35, PL XX, fig. 3; Syst. Nat., 



Ed. XII, 1766, p. 388. 

 Spilotes pullatus Boulenger, Cat. Snakes, II, 1894, p. 23. 



The eight specimens we possess were all taken in Colombia by Mr. H. H. 

 Smith. They are listed as follows : 



No. 145, Bonda, Colombia, elev. 150 ft., June. 



No. 146, 9 , Bonda, Colombia, elev. 150 ft., June. 



No. 147, cf , Bonda, Colombia, elev. 150 ft., August. 



No. 148, cf, Bonda, Colombia, elev. 150 ft., June. 



No. 187, 9 , Bonda, Colombia, elev. 150 ft., August. 



No. 1781, d", Masinga, Colombia, elev. 2,000 ft., August 16. 



No. 2039, cf , Bonda, Colombia, elev. 150 ft., June. 



No. 2040, 9 , Minca, Colombia, elev. 2,000 ft., July 27, 1899. 



Counts and Measurements. 



Genus Tropidodipsas Giinther. 

 48. Tropidodipsas spilogaster sp. nov. (Plate XVIII, figs. 4-6.) 



Maxillary short, the thirteen or fourteen maxillary teeth decreasing a little 

 in front and more behind; the posterior mandibular teeth decrease gradually. 

 Head very distinct from neck; eye large, its length equal to the distance from the 

 front of the orbit to the center of the nostril, protuberant, with a small vertically 

 elliptic pupil. Body cylindrical, slender; scales smooth, without pits. 



Rostral much broader than deep, just visible from above; nasal divided; 

 internasals a trifle more than half as long as the prefrontals; prefrontals entering 

 the orbit; frontal as broad as long, shorter than its distance from the end of the 



