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MICRURUS 



3. Subcaudals fewer than 20 in females; ven- J, Subcaudales menos de 20 en hembras; gene- 



trals usually more than 212 in females ralmente mas de 212 ventrales en hembras 



dunn i dunn i 



Subcaudals more than 20 in females; ven- Mas de 20 subcaudales en hembras; 201-212 

 trals 201-212 in females d i ssoleucus ventrales en hembras d i ssoleucus 



M icrurus d Issuleucus d i ssoleucus (Cope) 



19^6 Micrurus dissoleucus dissoleucus — Schmidt, Zool. Ser. Field Mus. Nat. Hist., 20: 202. 

 Distribution: Northeastern Colombia to eastern Venezuela. 



Micrurus d i ssoleucus dunn i Barbour 



1523 M icrurus dunn i Barbour, Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Mich., 125: 15- Type-locality: Ancon, 



Panama Canal Zone, Panama. 

 1936 Micrurus dissoleucus dunni — Schmidt, Zool. Ser. Field Mus. Nat. Hist., 20: 2O3. 



Distribution: Canal Zone to eastern Panama. 



Micrurus d i ssoleucus melanoqenys (Cope) 



I860 Flaps melanoqenys Cope. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc i . Phila., I860: ]2. Type-locality: Unknown; 



restricted to Santa Marta region, Colombia, by Schmidt, Fieldiana, Zool., 3*> 1955> 355- 

 iqi6 Flaps hollandi Griffin. Mem. Carnegie Mus., ]: 218, pi. 28, figs. 10-12. Type-locality: 



Bonda, Colombia. 

 1936 Micrurus d i ssoleucus melanoqenys — Schmidt, Zool. Ser. Field Mus. Nat. Hist., 20: 2O3. 



Distribution: Santa Marta region of Colombia. 



Micrurus di ssoleucus n i gr i rostr i s Schmidt 



18'58 Flaps qravenhorsti Jan, Rev. Mag. Zool., (2) 10: 523- Type-locality: Brazil (in error). 

 1955 Micrurus d i ssoleucus n i gr i rostr i s Schmidt, Fieldiana, Zool., '}A: 355- Type-locality: 

 Barranqu i 11a, Colombia. 



Distribution: Lower Magdalena region, northern Colombia. 



MICRURUS DUMERIL I I (Jan) 



1058 Flaps dumer i 1 i i Jan, Rev. Mag. Zool., (2) 10: 522. Type-locality: Cartagena, Colombia. 

 1922 Micrurus dumer i 1 i i — Ru thven. Misc. Publ. Mus. Zool. Univ. Mich., 8: 68. 



Distribution: Northern Venezuela around northern end of Andes in Colombia snd south along Pacific 

 slope to Ecuador. 



Content: Five subspecies. 



Comment: The oldest available name for this species is dumer i 1 i i Jan, and it replaces car i n icaudus 

 Schmidt, used by Roze, Amer. Mus. Novitates, 2287, I967, I3. 



Key to the subspecies Clave de subespecies 



1. Black bands not in triads 2 1. Bandas negras no en triadas 2 



Black bands in triads 4 Bandas negras en triadas 4 



2. First black nuchal band usually complete; 2. Primera banda nucal negra usualmente corn- 



most i nfrac^phal ic scales light 3 pleta; mayorfa de escamas i nfracefal i cas 



First black nuchal band absent or reduced; claras 3 



usually most i nf racephal ic scales Primera banda nucal negra ausente redu- 



blackened ant ioqu i ens i s cida; usualmente mayorfa de escamas infra- 



cefalicas negruzcas an t i oqu i ens i s 



■^Roze, Amer. Mus. Novitates, 2287, 1967» 18, suspects that this species probably belongs within this 

 taxon, but he plans to petition to the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, asking that 

 it be set as i de. 



