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CHIRONIUS 



CHI RON I US MONTICOLA Roze 



1552 Ch iron ius mont icola Roze, Acta Biol. Venezuelica, 1: 100, figs. Type-locality: El Junquito, 

 Distrito Federal, Venezuela. 



Distribution: Coastal Cordillera from Caracas, to Andes of Tachira, above 1,200 m in Venezuela; 

 Colombia; also recorded from Bolivia by Roze, Ofidios de Venezuela, !%(>, 101. 



CHIRONIUS MULTIVENTRIS Schmidt and Walker 



1543 Chironius mult iventris Schmidt and Walker, Zool. Ser. Field Mus. Nat. Hist., 24: 282. Type- 

 locality: Departamento Madre de Dios, Peru. 



Distribution: Known from type-locality; also recorded from Onverwacht, Surinam by Hoge, Mem. Inst. 

 Butantan, 30> 1964, 5^; Museo Nacional of Brazil has specimen from Benjamin Constant, Brazil. 



CHIRONIUS PYRRHOPOGON (Wied) 



1824 Coluber pyrrhopoqon Wied, Isis von Oken, 1824, heft 6: 666. Type-locality: None given; Wied, 

 Beitr. Naturges. Bras., 1825, 296, gave great forests of Rio I r i t i ba or Benevente, Espirito 

 Santo, Braz i 1. 



19')') Chironius pyrrhopogon — Bailey, Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Mich., 571' 12. 



Distribution: Bahia to Santa Catarina, Brazil, along coast; Bailey, loc. cit., recorded the same or 

 a closely related form from western Mato Grosso. 



CHIRONIUS OUADRICARINATUS ( Bo i e ) 



I827 Erpetodryas 4 - dr icar i natus Boie, Isis von Oken, 20 (l): 5^8. Type-locality: None given, 

 restricted to Asunc i on, Paraguay by Bailey, Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Mich., 571' 15. 



1862 Phyllosira flavescens Cope. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc i . Phila., 1862: 349. Type-locality: Paraguay or 

 northern Argentina. 



1955 Ch i ron i us quadr icar inatus — Bailey, Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Mich., 571' 15. 



Distribution: Savanna areas of northern Mato Grosso, Brazil, and central Bolivia; central Paraguay; 

 vicinity of Sao Paulo city, Brazil. 



CHIRONIUS SCHLUETERI (Werner) 



1899 Herpetodryas Schluteri Werner. Zool. Anz., 22: II5. Type-locality: Napo, Ecuador. 

 I960 Chironius schlijteri — Peters, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 122: 512. 



Distribution: Amazonian slopes of Ecuador. 



CHIRONIUS SCURRULUS (Wagler) 



1824 Natrix Scurrula Waqler. in Spix, Sp. Nov. Serp. Bras.: 24, pi. 8. 



Brazil. 

 1964 Chironius scurrulus — Hoge, Mem. Inst. Butantan, 3O (196O-62): 72. 



Type-locality: Rio Japura, 



Distribution: Amazonas, Minas Gerais, Rondonia, and Para, Brazil; southeastern Colombia; Moyobamba 

 and Xeberos, Peru. 



