THE HERPETOLOGY OF HISPANIOLA 



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Table 58. — Specimens of Typhlops pusillus examined 



Family BOIDAE 



Genus EPICRATES Wagler 



1830. Epicrates Wagler, Natiirliches System der Amphibien . . . , p. 168 (type, 



B. cenchria). 

 [Since a complete synonymy to this genus is given by Dr. Stejneger in the Puerto 



Rican herpetology, it is not necessary to repeat it here.] 



Hispaniola harbors a subspecies of each of three very distinct species 

 of this genus, while the other West Indian islands have but one variety 

 apiece where any occurs. Thus we find its own form peculiar to 

 Cuba, Jamaica, Turks Island, Mona Island, and Puerto Rico. 



KEY TO THE SPECIES OF EPICRATES OF HISPANIOLA 



a 1 . Scale rows 48 or more striatus striatus (p. 313) 



a 2 . Scale rows not more than 40. 



b l . Ventrals 244-261, caudals 70-81 inornatus fordii (p. 318) 



b 2 . Ventrals 274-297, caudals 93-110 gracilis gracilis (p. 321) 



EPICRATES STRIATUS STRIATUS (Fischer) 



Figure 90 



1849. Epicrates angulifer Gray, Catalogue of the specimens of snakes in the 

 collection of the British Museum, p. 94 (Haiti; Brit. Mus., R. Twining, 

 coll.) (not of Bibron 1840). — Amaral, Mem. Inst. Butantan, vol. 4, p. 140, 

 1929. 



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