297 

 TANTILLA 



Tant i lla sch i stosa sch i stosa (Bocourt) 



1562 Tant i lla sch i stosa sch i stosa — Smith, Herpetolog ica, 18: I5. 



Distribution: Moderate elevations from southern Veracruz, Mexico, to Panama, 



Tant i lla sch i stosa costar i cens i s Taylor 



195^ Tan t i lla costar i cens i s Taylor, Univ. Kansas Sc i . Bull., J6: ]6(>, fig. 25a. Type-locality: 



Cervantes, Cartago Province, Costa Rica, 4200 ft. 

 1962 T an t i lla sch i stosa costar icens i s — Smith, Herpetolog ica, 18: I6. 



Distribution: Known only from Cervantes and Cinchona, Costa Rica. 



Tan t i lla sch i stosa ta ylor i Smith 



1962 Tan t i lla sch i stosa ta ylor i Smith, Herpetolog i ca, 18: I7. Type-locality: Suretka, Costa 

 Rica. 



Distribution: Known only from type locality. 



TANTILLA SEMICINCTA (Oumeril, Bibron and Dumeril) 



I854 Homalocran i on sem i -c i nctum Dumeril, Bibron and Dumeril, Erp. Gen., ]: 862, Type-locality: 

 Colomb ia. 



1860 Tant ilia lat iceps Gunther, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1860: 240. Type-locality: Cartagena, 



Colomb ia, 



1861 [ lant ilia ] sem ic i ncta — Cope. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1861: 74, 



IB83 Homalocran i on 1 i neatum Fischer, Ostei — Programm Akad. Gymn. Hamburg, I883! 6, figs, 6-8, 

 Type-locality: Maracaibo, Venezuela. 



Distribution: Panama to Venezuela and Colombia. 



TANT ILIA SUPRACINCTA Peters 



186'^ Homalocran ion supracinctum Peters, Monats. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, I863: 272. Type-locality: 



Guayaquil, Ecuador. 

 iq60 Tantilla supracincta — Peters, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 122: 539. 



Distribution: Ecuador, probably on coastal plain from Guayaquil northward. 



TANT ILIA TAEN lATA (Bocourt) 



1883 Homalocran ion taen i a turn Bocourt , Mi ss. Sci. Mex., Rept.: 'jB] , pi. 37> figs. 3-3^- Type-locality: 



Guatemala . 

 1885 Homalocran i um tr i v i t ta turn M'uller, Verh. Naturforsch. Ges. Basel, ]: 678. Type-locality: 



Guatemala. 

 1887 Tant ilia taen iata — Cope, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus., 32: 83. 



Distribution: Known from Guatemala and Honduras. 



TANT ILLA TRIL INEATA (Peters) 



1880 leptocalamus trilineatus Peters, Monats. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1880: 221, fig. 2. Type-locality: 



Brazil; in error, according to Smith and Williams, Southwestern Nat., 11, 1965, 485, ^^° 



Indicate it "presumably came actually from some locality in Central America or Mexico". 



1929 Tant i lla tr il ineata — Amaral, Mem. Inst. Butantan, 4: 222. 



Distribution: Unknown. 



