griffin: ophidia from south America in carnegie museum 



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Series B. Opisthoglypha. 



Subfamily Dipsadomorphin^ Boulenger. 



Genus Clelia (Oxyrhopus) Fitzinger. 



53. Clelia bitorquata (Giinther) . 



Tachymenis bitorquatus Guenther, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (4), IX, 1872, p. 19. 

 Oxyrhopus bitorquatus Boulenger, Cat. Snakes, III, 1896, p. 104, PI. VI, fig. 1. 



The four specimens of this species in the Museum are listed as follows: 



C. M. No. 272, 9 , "South America," LeBoutelier Collection. 



C. M. No. 343, cf , Bom Jesus de Lapa, Bahia, Brazil, J. D. Haseman coll., no date. 



C. M. No. 369, cf , Piracicaba, J. D. Haseman coll., Sept. 7, 1908. 



C. M. No. 376, 9 , Tarma, Peru, Miss Lola Vance coll., no date. 



Nos. 272, 343, and 369 have black cross-bands arranged in threes the entire 

 length of the body and tail. No. 376 has two black bands on the neck, two sets 

 of threes on the anterior part of the body, traces of a third set, and the remainder 

 of the upper surface (originally) red with black tipped scales. 



Counts and Measuhements. 



Anal 



Scale-rows 



Gastrosteges 



Urosteges 



Upper labials 



Preoculars 



Postoculars 



Temporals 



Total length in inm. . 

 Length of tail in mm. 



(No. 272.) 



1 



19 



208 



76/76 



8(4.5) 



1 



2 



2,3 



808 



152 



(No. 343.) 



1 



19 



200 



63/63 



8(4.5) 



1 



2 



2,3 



656 



111 



(No. 369.) 



1 



19 



205 



70/70 



8(4.5) 



1 



2 



2,3 



1150 



200 



(No. 376.) 



1 



19 



207 



75/75 



8(4.5) 



1 



2 



2,3 



674 



110 



54. Clelia cloelia (Daudin). 



Coluber cloelia Daudin, Rept., VI, 1803, p. 330, PI. LXXVIII. 

 Oxyrhopus cloelia Boulenger, Cat. Snakes, III, 1896, p. 108. 



C. M. No. 330, cf , Entre Rios, Brazil, J. D. Haseman coll., June 4, 1908. 

 C. M. No. 380, d^, Rio Mamore, Bolivia, J. D. Haseman coll., Sept. 19, 1909. 

 In specimen No. 330 there is no loreal. 



