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are 17 supralabials on each side of the mouth, but as two from Haiti 

 (Nos. 59436 and 60603) have 16, this discrepancy with Boulenger's 

 description seems very slight. 



EPICRATES GRACILIS (Fischer) 



One specimen (U.S.N.M., No. 55026) was captured at Rojo Cabo, 

 Samana Peninsula, Santo Domingo, on August 29, 1916. This speci- 

 men, the only representative of this rare species in the collection of 

 the National Museum, has 39 scale rows around the body, 274 ven- 

 trals, 60 caudals (the tail is defective), 12 upper labials on the right 

 side and 13 on the left. The coloration (in alcohol) is as follows: 

 The head purplish-brown, becoming lighter on the upper labials and 

 on the neck; a few indistinct darker markings on the occiput and 

 temporal region; the body brown, with a series of roundish black 

 spots about five scales long on each side of the mid-dorsal line; 

 these spots separated from each other by brown interspaces about 

 three scales in length; saddle-like blotches across the back often 

 formed by confluent spots of the two series; two lateral series of 

 smaller black spots on each side; the larger series very irregular in 

 shape, occupying the four or five outer scale rows; the inner and 

 smaller series usually on the sixth, seventh, and eighth rows and some- 

 times anastomosing with the outer series; the throat pale yellow; 

 the ventral surface light anteriorly, becoming posteriorly more and 

 more suffused with gray mottlings until only the edge of each ventral 

 and caudal scale remains light ; a few dark spots scattered irregularly 

 near the ends of the ventrals and on the caudals. The snake is not 

 large in size, being 700 mm. in length from the snout to the end of 

 the tail, which is incomplete. 



TROPIDOPHIS CONJUNCTUS Fischer 



One specimen (U.S.N.M., No. 55046) taken near Cape Samana on 

 August 30, 1916. This snake has 27 scales around the body, 186 ven- 

 trals, an undivided anal, and 35 caudals. It differs from the figure 

 of the type specimen ^ in having two pairs of praef rentals, the second 

 jDair the smaller, instead of only one pair. In the type specimen, 

 fusion has probably taken j^lace, and the occurrence of two pairs of 

 praefrontals is apparently the normal condition. In No. 55046 the 

 frontal is relatively shorter than in the figured specimen, but the 

 difference is not great enough to warrant specific distinction. 



TROPIDOPHIS MACULATA HAETIANA Cope 



One young specimen (U.S.N.M., No, 64910) was taken at Paradis, 

 near Barahona, in 1922. This snake has 27 scale-rows around the 

 body. There is a very tiny scale between the parietal shields. 



» Jahrb. Hamb. Wiss. Anst., vol. 5, 1888, p. 31, pi. 3, flg. 5. 



