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DRYMOBIUS 



2. Adults retaining juvenile pattern of 35"^5 2. Adultos reteniendo el patron juvenil de 



diffuse dorsal blotches or bands, 2-J unas 35"*5 manchas o bandas dorsales que 



scale rows wide, more conspicuous anter- se extlenden hasta el origen de las 



iorly; ground color turquoise-green in ventrales; color de fondo verde-turquesa 



life (dull or bluish-gray in preservative), en v i da (gris opaco o azulado en I'quido 



dorsal scales almost entirely black (on preservat i vo), dorsales color verde-tur- 



dark blotches) to almost entirely tur- quesa con grados variables de pigmentacion 



quoise-green (on lighter areas), bordered negra o gris oscura; apice de las dorsales 



with gray or black, always black-tipped siempre negro mayd i s 



mayd i s No como el anterior marqar i t i f erus 



Not as above marqar i t i f erus 



Drymob i us marqar i t i f erus marqar i t i f erus (Schlegel) 



1855 ^amen is tr icolor Hallowell, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sc i . Phila., (2) 3: 34, pi. 3. 



Type-locality: Honduras. 

 1890 Orvmobius marqar i t i f erus [ marqar i t i ferus j — Bocourt, Mjss. Sc i . Mex., Rept i les:. 7I8. 



Distribution: Low and moderate elevations from Texas south along Caribbean coast to 

 northern South America. 



Drymob ius marqar i t i f erus mayd i s Villa 



1568 Drymob ius marqar i t i f erus mayd i s Villa, Rev. Biol. Trop. Costa Rica, I5: 117> figs. 2-4, 

 Type-locality! Great Corn Island, Departamento de Zelaya, Nicaragua. 



Distribution: Known only from Great Corn Island, Nicaragua. 



Drymob ius marqar i t i f erus occ i dental i s Bocourt 



I85O Drymob i us marqar i t i f erus var. occ i dental i s Bocourt, Miss. Sc i . Mex., Rept.: 118. Type- 

 locality: Near Volcan Atitlan, Guatemala. 



Distribution: Low and moderate elevations on Pacific coast of Chiapas, Mexico east to El 

 Salvador. 



DRYMOBIUS MELANOTROPIS (Cope) 



1876 Dendrophidium melanotropis Cope. Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., (2) 8(1875): I34, pi. 26, fig. 1. 



Type-locality: Costa Rica. 

 1533 Drymob ius melanotrop i 5 — Stuart, Copeia, 1533' ^^• 



Distribution: Nicaragua to Panama. 



DRYMOBIUS RHOMBIFER (CHnther) 



1860 Coryphodon rhomb i f er Gunther, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, I860: 236. Type-locality: Esmeraldas, 



Ecuador. 

 1888 Drymob ius rhomb i f er — Bocourt, Miss. Sci. Mex., Rept., pi. 43, fig. 1. 



Distribution: From Nicaragua to Peru, Venezuela, Colombia, and Ecuador. 



