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REPTILIA: SERPENTES: BOIDAE * * * LOXOCEMUS 



LOXOCEMUS Cope 



1861 Loxocemus Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc i . Phila., 1861: 1(s, Type-specles: Loxoceinus bicolor Cope. 



1862 Plastoseryx Jan, Arch, ftlr Naturg., 28 (l): 244. Type-species: Plastoseryx Bronni Jan. 



Distribution; Nayarit, western Mexico to Costa Rica. 

 Content: One species. 



LOXOCEMUS BICOLOR Cope 



1861 Loxocemus bicolor Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc i . Phila., 1861: 77- Type-locality: Unknown; re- 



stricted to La Unicfn, El Salvador, by Smith and Taylor, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 33> "^35^) 31^. 



1862 Plastoseryx Bronni Jan, Arch, fur Naturg., 28 (l): 244. Type-locality:, America. 



I876 Loxocemus sumjchrast i Bocourt, Ann. Sci. Nat. Zool. Paris, (6) 4 (7): 1. Type-locality: Tehuante- 



pec, Mex ico. 

 1567 Loxocemus bicolor — Nelson and Meyer, SW Nat., 12: 439. 



Distribution: On Pacific coast from Nayarit, Mexico to Costa Rica; Atlantic coast in northwestern 

 Honduras. 



