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U. S. Nat. Mus. for 1902, pp. 691, 693, 1904; The batrachians and land 

 reptiles of the Bahama Islands, Geogr. Soc. Baltimore, p. 335, 1905. — Bar- 

 bour, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 44, p. 325, 1914; Zoologica, vol. 11, 

 No. 4, p. 108, 1930.— Schmidt, Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Zool. Ser., vol. 12, 

 No. 12, pp. 153-159, 1926. — Amaral, Mem. Inst. Butantan, vol. 4, p. 140, 

 1929 (part).— Stull, Bull. Antivenin Inst., vol. 5, No. 2, p. 40, 1931. — 

 Cochran, Occ. Pap. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 8, p. 184, 1934. 



1888. Chilabothrus maculatus Fischer, Jahrb. Hamburg Wiss. Anst., vol. 5, p. 

 33, pi. 3, fig. 7 (type localities, Cape Haytien and Gonaives, Hayti; collector, 

 H. Rolle). 



1935. Epicrates inornatus fordii Stull, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 40, 

 No. 8, p. 397. 



1935. Epicrates fordii fordii Barbour, Zoologica, vol. 19, No. 3, p. 132; Bull. Mus. 

 Comp. Zool., vol. 82, No. 2, p. 150, 1937. 



Description. — U.S.N.M. No. 59085; Haiti; Celestino Bencomo, 

 collector. Rostral a little broader than deep, tip visible from above; 

 internasals as broad as long; three pairs of prefrontals, the first two 

 pairs about equal, the third pair slightly larger and separated by a 

 smaller interpolated scale; frontal as broad as long, twice as broad as 

 the supraocular, showing a tendency to divide longitudinally, very 

 uneven in its posterior margin ; parietals exceedingly small, separated 

 by the prolonged posterior border of the frontal; first supralabial in 

 contact with anterior nasal, second with the two nasals and loreal; 

 loreal divided into two on each side, on the right by a diagonal suture, 

 on the left by a perpendicular suture; 13 supralabials ; a large preocular 

 with a subpreocular consisting of the detached upper third of the sixth 

 supralabial; the upper part of the fifth supralabial also detached on 

 the right side of the head; sixth and seventh labials (eighth also on 

 left side of head) entering the eye; five and six postoculars on left 

 and right sides respectively; temporal scales small, not so large as 

 those on the side of the body; 33 scale rows; 246 ventrals; anal entire; 

 78 subcaudals, entire. 



Color (in alcohol) : Head and body fawn color; a dark russet streak 

 along the top of the upper labials to corner of mouth; above this a 

 light streak beginning at the nostril passing through the eye and ex- 

 tending diagonally downward; labials white; occipital region russet, 

 indistinctly marked with gray; a double dorsal series of squarish 

 brown spots edged with black, usually confluent across the back, 

 extending from the neck to the tip of the tail where they become 

 much smaller, their number 63 and 65 on the left and right sides, 

 respectively; a single series of much smaller and more numerous 

 spots on each side of the body extending from the fourth to the 

 seventh or eighth scale-row, disappearing on the tail; ventrals a little 

 lighter in color than dorsals; the anterior part of each scale darker. 



Dimensions. — Total length, 740 mm.; tail, 130 mm. 



Relationships. — The pattern on the top of the head in No. 59085 is 



