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of this truth has been made above in the case of the Cuban and 

 Haitian species of Epicrates, and I believe that the same holds good 

 to some extent in the case of the Cuban TropidopMs maculatus (Bib- 

 ron) and the Haitian T. liaetianus (Cope) . The museum has recently 

 received two specimens of the latter collected by Dr. A. Busck in San 

 Francisco Mountain, Santo Domingo (Nos. 35979, 35980). They 

 both have 27 scale rows and lack interparietals. They thus mate- 

 rially strengthen the position taken by me in my paper on the Bahama 

 reptiles (in Shattuck, The Bahama Islands, 1905, p. 336). 



TROPIDOPraS PARDALIS (Gundlach). 



Figs. 88 to 92. 



This species is easily characterized by the low number of ventrals. 

 In the Cuban specimens in the United States National Museum they 



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F:gs. 88-90.— Tkopidophis pardalis. 21 X nat. size. No. 27392, U.S.N.M. El GuiraA, Pinar del 

 Rio.— 91-92, same species. IJ X nat. size. No. 26360, U.S.N.M. Matanzas.— 90 represents the 



COLOR pattern AND SHAPE OF TAIL AaEWED FROM THE SIDE.— 91 SHOWS THE COLOR PATTERN ACROSS 

 THE MIDDLE OF THE BODY. — 92 SHOWS THE CROSS SECTION OF THE BODY AT THE MIDDLE. 



vary between 142 and 158, caudals between 24 and 30, scale rows 

 between 21 and 25. The character of the vertebral row of scales is a 

 very uncertain one in these snakes and apparently of no fundamental 

 importance. In one of the specimens collected by Palmer and Riley 

 at San Diego de los Banos (No. 27849, U.S.N.M.) it is distinctly 

 enlarged. They also obtained a specimen at El Guama (No. 27392) 

 which has only 21 scale rows. Mr. J. W. Daniel, jr., presented tht 

 United States National Museum with a specimen taken at Matanzas, 

 February 10, 1899. 



