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TROPIDOPHIS MACULATUS HAETIANUS (Cope) 



Figures 94-96 



1864. Tropidophis maculatus Jan, Iconographie g6n6rale des ophidiens, livr. 5, 

 pi. 2, fig. 1, text p. 75 (San Domingo, Mus. Hamburg). — Barbour and 

 Ramsden, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 47, No. 2, p. 91, 1919 (part) (Cuba, 

 also Jamaica, Haiti, Navassa). — T. maculata Barbour, Mem. Mus. 

 Comp. Zool., vol. 44, No. 2, p. 328, 1914 (part) (Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, 

 Navassa). — Schmidt, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 44, p. 19, 1921 (San- 

 chez, Santo Domingo). — Ungalia maculata Boulenger, Catalogue of the 

 snakes in the British Museum, vol. 1, p. 112, 1893 (part) (Cuba, San Do- 

 mingo, Jamaica). — Meerwarth, Mitth. Mus. Hamburg, vol. 18, pt. 2, 

 p. 8, 1901 (San Domingo). — Amaral, Mem. Inst. ButantaD, vol. 4, p. 143, 

 1929. 



1879. Ungualia haetiana Cope, Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc, vol. 18, p. 273 (type 

 locality, Puerto Plata, Haiti) ; Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1894, p. 

 436.— Garman, Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc, vol. 24, p. 279, 1887 (Haiti).— Tropi- 

 dophis haetiana Stejneger, in Shattuck, The Bahama Islands, p. 336, 1905. — 

 T. haetianus Stejneger, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 53, p. 280, 1917 (Santo 

 Domingo and Haiti). 



1888. Tropidophis conjunctus Fischer, Jahrb. Hamburg Wiss. Anst., vol. 5, 

 p. 31, pi. 3, fig. 5 (type locality, Cape Haytien, Hayti; Rolle, coll.) — Cochran, 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 66, art. 6, p. 12, 1924. — Ungalia conjuncta Boul- 

 enger, Catalogue of the snakes in the British Museum, vol. 1, p. 113, 1893. — 

 Zenneck, Zeitschr. Wiss. Zool., vol. 64, pp. 96, 357, 1898.— Werner, Arch. 

 Naturg., vol. 87, sect. A, pt. 7, p. 250, 1921. — Tropidophis conjuncta Barbour, 

 Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 44, p. 329, 1914. 



1921. Ungalia maculata Werner, Arch. Naturg., vol. 87, sect. A, pt. 7, p. 249 

 (part) . 



1924. Tropidophis maculata haetiana Cochran, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 66, 

 art. 6, p. 12 (Santo Domingo). 



1928. Tropidophis mactdatus haetianus Stull, Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Mich., 

 No. 195, p. 14; Bull. Antivenin Inst., vol. 5, No. 2, p. 40, 1931; Proc. Boston 

 Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 40, No. 8, p. 401, 1935.— Barbour, Zoologica, vol. 11, 

 No. 4, p. 109, 1930; vol. 19, No. 3, p. 133, 1935; Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 

 vol. 82, No. 2, p. 152, 1937.— Cochran, Occ. Pap. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 

 vol. 8, p. 184, 1934. — Boker, Publ. Inst. Cient. Dominico-AJeman, vol. 1, 

 p. 18, 1939. 



Description of the type. — Adult, U.S.N.M. No. 10164, collected at 

 Port-au-Prince, Haiti, by Dr. J. J. Brown. Head not very distinct 

 from neck; rostral broader than deep, well visible from above; inter- 

 nasals longer than broad; two pairs of prefrontals, the first much the 

 larger; frontal a little longer than its distance from the rostral, one 

 and one-half times the width of the supraocular; parietals large, 

 prominent, regular hi outline, a little shorter than the frontal; no 

 interparietal; one preocular and three postoculars; 10 upper labials, 

 the tenth small, the fourth and fifth entering the eye on the right side 

 of the head, the fifth excluded by a postocular on the left side; only 

 the labials in front of the orbit higher than long; 12 lower labials, 

 the first separated from its fellow by the symphysial, which is divided; 

 first pair of chin shields longer than the second; about five pairs of 



