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Arrhyton taeniatum Gunther. 

 GtJNTHER, Cat. snakes Brit, mus., 1858, p. 244. Boulenger, Cat. snakes Brit, nius., 1894, 2, p. 252. 



This was the first known species of this remarkable genus peculiar to Cuba. 

 In 1894, only the type was preserved in the British museum, and it still seems 

 to be extremely rare. In January, 1913, I procured a fine example from near 

 Cojimar, not far from Havana. 



Arrhyton vittatum (Gundlach and Peters). 



Gdndlach & Peters, Monatsb. Akad. wiss. Berlin, 1861, p. 1002. Boulenger, Cat. snakes Brit, mus., 

 1894, 2, p. 252. 



Another rare Cuban species. The collection contains a typical example 



from Soledad, near Cienfuegos, Cuba. It was given me by Mr. R. M. Grey, 



who caught it in the Harvard Botanical Experiment Station. Mr. Barnum 



Brown caught another example near the Rio Analla, Cuba, which is now in this 



Museum. 



Arrhyton redimitum (Cope). 



Cope, Proc. Acad. nat. sci. Phila., 1862, p. 81. Boulenger, Cat. snakes Brit, mus., 1894, 2, p. 252. 



Apparently equally as rare as the preceding species. Also Cuban. I am 

 rather inclined to believe that these three species may in reality all represent 

 one variable form and be referable to a single species. Much more material 

 is needed to settle this point. 



Clelia cloelia (Daudin). 



Daudin, Hist. nat. rept., 1803, 6, p. 330, pi. 78. Boulenger, Cat. snakes Brit, mus., 1896, 3, p. 108. 

 Oxyrhopus plunibeus Wagler. Gijnther. Garman, Proc. Amer. philos. soc, 1887, 24, p. 285. 



The specimens upon which Garman based his record for Oxyrhopus plum- 

 beus Wagl., Gunther are in excellent preservation. • No special comment upon 

 them is necessary. Allen obtained no specimens, and did not even hear of the 

 species, from which we may assume that it has either grown very rare or become 

 extinct. Carman's example seems to be the only one known from Grenada; 

 he had two others, also fully adult, from St. Lucia. Boulenger (Cat. snakes 

 Brit, mus., 1896, 3, p. 109) records specimens in the British museum from St. 

 Lucia and Dominica. As is well known, this is a wide-ranging species, occurring 

 through tropical America from about the City of Mexico to southern Brazil. 

 In first recording these specimens from Dominica Boulenger (Proc. Zool. soc. 

 London, 1891, p. 352), remarked that they were "hitherto recorded only from 

 Trinidad in the West Indies." Garman's West Indian records were published 

 some years earlier. 



