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1856. Homalochilus striatus Fischer, Abh. Nat. Ver. Hamburg, vol. 3, p. 102, 

 pi. 2, fig. 2a-2b (St. Domingo and St. Thomas). — Jan, Iconographie gen^rale 

 des ophidiens, livr. 6, pi. 4, 1864; text, p. 86, 1865. — Garman, Proc. Amer. 

 Philos. Soc, vol. 24, p. 279, 1887 (Haiti). 



1862. ? Homalochilus multisectus Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1862, 

 p. 70 (tj'pe locality unknown; type in Mus. Philadelphia Acad.; Smith 

 and Stewardson, coll.). 



1862. 1 Homalochilus strigilatus Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1862, 

 p. 71 (type locality. New Providence Island, Bahamas) ; Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., vol. 10, p. 439, 1887 (New Providence). — Garman, Proc. Amer. 

 Philos. Soc, vol. 24, p. 279, 1887 (Andros). — Epicrates strigilatus Barbour, 

 Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 46, No. 3, p. 59, 1904 (Nassau, Bahamas). 



1863. Epicrates striatus Steindachner, Denkschr. Akad. Wien, vol. 22, pt. 2, 

 p. 93, pi. -, figs. 5, 6. — BouLENGER, Catalogue of the snakes in the British 

 Museum, vol. 1, p. 96, 1893 (San Domingo). — Zenneck, Zeitschr. Wiss. 

 Zool., vol. 64, pp. 57, 62, 347, 1898.— Stejneger, The batrachians and land 

 reptiles of the Bahama Islands, p. 336, 1905. — Barbour, Amer. Nat., 1906, 

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

 No. 4, p. 107, 1930. — Ros:6n, Contributions to the fauna of the Bahamas, 

 vol. 2, p. 38, 1911. — Schmidt, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 44, p. 18, 

 1921.— Cochran, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 66, art. 6, p. 11, 1924; Occ. 

 Pap. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 8, p. 184, 1934. — Stull, Bull. Antivenin 

 Inst., vol. 5, No. 2, p. 39, 1931. 



1863. Epicrates versicolor Steindachner, Denkschr. Akad. Wien, vol. 22, pt. 2, 



p. 89, pi. — , figs. 1-4 ("Columbia"; type in Zool. Mus. Vienna). 

 1901. Epicrates angulifer striatus Meerwarth, Mitth. Naturh. Mus. Hamburg, 



vol. 18, p. 5. 

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



No. 8, p. 397.— Barbour, Zoologica, vol. 19, No. 3, p. 131, 1935; Bull. 



Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 82, No. 2, p. 149, 1937. 



Description. — Adult male, U.S.N.M. No. 60604; Les Basses, south- 

 western Haiti; January 9, 1918; Dr. W. L. Abbott, collector. Rostral 

 a little broader than high, visible from above; nasals divided, broader 

 than long, narrowly in contact; anterior prefrontals broadly in con- 

 tact, the outer posterior corners prolonged backward; posterior pre- 

 frontals broken up into numerous small plates; two supraoculars, the 

 posterior the larger; frontal region covered with irregular shields; 

 parietals not distinguishable in size from the other scales on the occiput ; 

 first two supralabials in contact with nasal on the left, first three on 

 the right side; loreal nearly twice as long as high, in contact with the 

 second to fifth on left and third to seventh labials on right; two pre- 

 oculars, the upper much the larger; 14 upper labials on left side, 

 15 on right, the eighth reaching the eye on both sides; 5 postoculars; 

 temporals small, not distinguishable except by position from the 

 surrounding scales; scales in 48 rows around the body; ventrals 278; 

 anal entire; caudals 89. 



Color (in alcohol): Top of head drab, becoming lighter on the 

 upper lip ; two indistinct dark parallel bands from the posterior border 

 of each eye continuing backward onto the neck; body color buff, 

 obscured by a series of seal-brown rhombs beginning at the occiput. 



