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ENULIUS Cope 



1871 Enulius Cope. Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc, 11: 558. Type-species: Enulius murinus Cope. 



1872 Leptocalamus Gunther, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (4) 5: I6. Type-species: Leptocalamus torquatus 



Gunther. 



Distribution: Western and southern Mexico through Central America to Colombia. 



Content: Three species, one of which ( ol igost ichus Smith, Ardnt and Sherbrooke) is extral i m i tal, 

 according to latest summary of genus, by Smith, Ardnt and Sherbrooke, Nat. Hist. Misc. Chicago 

 Acad. Sci., 186, I567. 



Key to the species Clave de especies 



1. Rostral pointed; 1/ scale rows at midbody 1. Rostral puntiaguda; I7 filas de escamas en el 



flay i torques med i cuerpo f lavi torques 



Rostral not pointed; I5 scale rows at midbody — Rostral no puntiaguda; I5 filas de escamas en 

 sclater i el medio cuerpo sclater i 



ENULIUS FLAV I TORQUES (Cope) 



1869 Liophis flavitoroues Cope. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1868: 3O7. Type-locality: R'o 



Magdalena, Colombia, 

 1938 Enulius flavitorques — Dunn, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 85: 415. 



Distribution: Southern Mexico through Central America to Colombia. 



Content: Three subspecies, two of which ( sum i chrast i Bocourt and un i color Fischer) are extral i m i tal. 



Enul i us flay i torques flay i torques (Cope) 



1871 Enul i us mur i nus Cope, Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc, 111 558. Type-locality: Chinandega, 



Nicaragua (this new genus and species were also described by Cope in second and third Ann. 

 Rept. Peabody Acad. Sci., I869-I87O [1871], 80. It is uncertain which paper was published 

 first, according to Osborne, Biog. Mem. Nat. Acad. Sci., I3, I53O, I93-I55). 



1872 Leptocalamus torquatus Gunther, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (4) 5' 17' Type-locality: South 



Amer ica. 

 1967 [_ Enul ius j f[_ lavitorques J flay i torques — Smith, Ardnt and Sherbrooke, Nat. Hist. Misc. Chicago 

 Acad. Sci., 186: 4. 



Distribution: Guatemala to Colombia. 



ENULIUS SCLATERI (Boulenger) 



1894 Leptocalamus sclateri Boulenger, Cat. Sn. Brit. Mus., 2: 25I, pi. 12, fig. 1. Type-locality: 



South America. 

 1938 Enulius slateri (sic) — Dunn, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 8J: 417. 



Distribution: Nicaragua, Panama, Colombia. 



