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fused with prefrontal) combined with a high number of ventrals 

 (171 to 186, average 177) and subcaudals (69 to 100, average 84.5), 

 while A. vittatum has a well-separated loreal combined with few 

 ventrals (112 to 124, average 117.5) and subcaudals (54 to 78, average 

 64.5). 



108 





112 



Figs. 108-111.— AKRHYTONTAENIATtm. 2§X NAT. SIZE. NO. 12421, U.S.N.M. Type OF ( A . FULV0M 



Cope). Cuba.~108 represents color pattern at about the middle of the body.— 112-115, same 

 SPECIES. 2§ X NAT. SIZE. No. 29769 U.S.N.M. Cuba.— 112 represents color pattern at about 



MIDDLE OF BODY. 



The third species (A. redimitum) is known only from Cope's original 

 description * and Bocourt's description and figure of a second speci- 

 men.^ No specimen seems to have been found by recent collectors, 

 but in view of the apparent rarity of all these snakes, this does not 

 necessarily mean that the only two specimens known are freaks or 

 extremes of individual variation of one of the other species. The 



> Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Philadelphia, 1862, p. 81. 

 a Miss. Sci. Mexique, Zool., Rept., p. 361, pi. 35, fl£. 8. 



