ART. 6 HAITIAN HERPETOLOGICAL COLLECTION COCHRAN 11 



AMPHISBAENA INNOCENS Weinland 



One specimen (U.S.N.M., No. 60620) from Moron taken on De- 

 cember 25, 1917, has 2 scales behind the postmental, 211 rings around 

 the body, and 15 rings around the taiL 



TYPHLOPS PUSILLUS Barbour 



A single specimen (U.S.N.M., No. 64271) taken from the stomach 

 of a snake {Leimadophis parvifrons^ U.S.N.M., No. 64270) collected 

 in the Mao-Yaqui Valley in 1921. In spite of having been swallowed 

 by the larger snake, the worm-snake is in good condition, and it is 

 easy to see that the cephalic squamation agrees with Barbour's figure 

 of the type of the species.^ There are 20 scales around the body, 

 about 380 scales on the midventral line from the chin to the vent, and 

 about 16 under the tail, which terminates in a spine. 



TYPHLOPS LUMBRICAUS (Linnaeus) 



One specimen (U.S.N.M., No. 55298) was taken at Sanchez, Santo 

 Domingo, in October, 1916. 



EPICRATES STRIATUS (Fischer) 



One specimen (U.S.N.M., No. 59436) from Bombardopolis, cap- 

 tured on March 28, 1917, at an altitude of 1,500 feet; one (No. 59437) 

 from Tortuga Island taken February 1, 1917; two (Nos. 59918-59919) 

 from Port au Prince, Haiti, taken April 16 and 17, 1917, the former 

 a female which contained 11 eggs, the latter a male; one (No. 60603) 

 from Moline taken January 28, 1918, at an altitude of 2,000 feet ; one 

 (No. 60604) from Les Basses on January 9, 1918; two (Nos. 55044- 

 55045) with no precise locality other than Santo Domingo, collected 

 in 1916. The ring of scales around the eye is incomplete in all the 

 specimens except one (No. 60604) in which there is a small subocular 

 scale completing the circle on the right side only, the left having 

 a supralabial reaching the eye. In none of these specimens do three 

 labials enter the eye, as is the case in the Cuban E. migulifer; the 

 majority of the Santo Domingan snakes have two labials reaching 

 the eye, and in a slightly lesser number only one labial reaching the 

 eye. When the loreal itself is divided (as in Nos. 59436, 59437, and 

 59919) there are two scales intercalated above the upper labials; 

 when the loreal is whole, there is but a single intercalated scale (in 

 two instances none at all on one side of the head) between the loreal 

 and the upper labials. 



The specimen from Tortuga Island does not seem to differ specifi- 

 cally from the Haitian form. There are 55 scales around the body, 

 286 ventrals, a divided anal and 63 caudals (tail defective). There 



8 Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 44, No. 2, p. 323. 



