THE HERPETOLOGY OF HISPANIOLA 

 Tablk 60. — Specimens of Epicrates inornatus fordii examined 



321 



Museum 

 No. 



Locality 



Date 



Collector 





U.S.N.M. 



59085. 

 75924 _ 



84291 



M.C.Z. 



6786. . 

 36701. 



Haiti...- 



En Caf^, Qonave Is- 

 land. 

 Port-au-Prince, Haiti. 



Probably Haiti 



Cap-Haltien, Haiti- 



Sept. 20, 1928 



1930- 



1903 



Mar. 31, 1934 



43680 



Brit. Mut. 



a(9) — 



b(9) (type). 

 c(9) 



Monte Cristi, P. R.... 



'S. Domingo". 



C. Bencomo 



J. S. C. Boswell. 



L. H. Parish and 

 W. Perrygo. 



T. Barbour 



Utowana Expedi- 

 tion. 

 W. J. Clench 



A. Qiinther. 



Hamburg Mus. 

 (3 specimens)'. 



Cape Hayti. 



H. Rolle. 



33-37 



244 

 246 



246 



258 

 256 



250 



250 

 253 

 253 



253- 

 261 



77 



12-13 



66-63 

 61-67 



72-76 



75-79 



' Types of Chilabothrus maculatus; largest, 780 mm. in total length; tail, 130 mm. 

 EPICRATES GRACILIS GRACILIS (Fischer) 



Figure 92, 93 



1888. Chilabothrus gracilis Fischer, Jahrb. Hamburg Wiss. Anst., vol. 5 (for 

 1887), p. 35, pi. 3, fig. 8 (type locality, Cape Haytien, Hayti; collector, 

 H. RoUe). — Epicrates g. Boulenger, Catalogue of the snakes in the British 

 Museum, vol. 1, p. 98, 1893. — Zenneck, Zeitschr. Wiss. ZooL, vol. 64, 

 pp. 64, 348, 1898. — Barbour, Mem. Mus. Comp. ZooL, vol. 44, No. 2, 

 p. 326, 1914; Zoologica, vol. 11, No. 4, p. 108, 1930; vol. 19, No. 3, p. 132, 

 1935; Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 82, No. 2, p. 132, 1937.— Cochran, 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 66, art. 6, p. 12, 1924.— Amaral, Mem. Inst. 

 Butantan, vol. 4, p. 140, 1929. 



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

 No. 8, p. 397. 



Description. — U.S.N.M. No. 55025; Rojo Cabo, Samana Peninsula, 

 Santo Domingo; August 29, 1916; Dr. W. L. Abbott, collector. Ros- 

 tral a little broader than high, tip just visible from above; internasals 

 about two-thirds as long as first pair of prefrontals; anterior pair of 

 prefrontals large; the next pair much shorter, with a very small scale 

 between them; a transverse series of five irregular polygonal scales 

 between the frontal and the second pair of prefrontals; frontal nearly 

 as broad as long, twice as broad as the supraoculars ; parietals narrowly 

 in contact, small and uneven in outline; 13 supralabials, the last 



