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INCERTAE SEDIS 



APOROPHIS CRUC IFER Ahl 



1525 Aporoph i s cruc i f er Ahl, Zool. Anz., 63: 27I. Type-locality: Either Buea, Cameroons or 



Paramaribo, Surinam, 



Distribution: Unknown, 



Comment: Werner, Zool. Jahrb,, Abt, fur Syst., 57> 1929> 11*> assigned this to Lyooph i s . and stated 

 that, although the locality for the type was uncertain, it was impossible for it to be Buea, 

 Cameroons, He does not elaborate on this statement. The holotype will have to be re-examined 

 for proper generic placement of the taxon. 



ATRACTUS TRIHEDRURUS Amaral 



1526 A tractus tr i hedrurus Amaral, Arch, Mus, Nac. Brazil, 26: 11, pi, 2, figs. 1-4. Type-locality: 



Southern Braz i 1. 



Distribution: Known only from type specimen. 



Comment: Savage, Misc. Publ. Mus. Zool. Univ. Mich., 112, I56O, Jl , indicated that this was 

 probably not an Atractus . but that its generic status must be regarded as uncertain until the 

 holotype can be re-examined. 



ATRACTUS VITTATUS Boulenger 



I894 Atractus vittatus Boulenger, Cat. Sn. Brit. Mus,, 2: 3O4, pi. I5, fig. 2. Type-locality: 

 Caracas, Venezuela. 



Distribution: Known only from type locality. 



Comment: Savage, Misc. Publ. Mus. Zool. Univ. Mich,, 112, I96O, 31, pointed out that the characters 

 exhibited by the holotype and only l<nown specimen did not permit its inclusion in Atractus, and 

 suggested it might be a Geophis . Downs, Misc. Publ. Mus. Zool. Univ. Mich,, I3I, I567, did not 

 mention the species at all in his review and clearly did not consider it a valid taxon within the 

 genus Geoph i s . 



CALAMARIA FAVAE Filippi 



1840 Calamar ia favae Filippi, Catalogo Raggionato e Descr i tt i vo, . .Serpent i del Museo dell' I, R. 



Universita de Pavia, Bibliot, Ital,, 99: 16. Type-locality: Unknown. 

 IB54 Rabdosoma long icaudatum Dumeril, Bibron and Dumeril, Erp. Gen., ]: 106. Type-locality: 



Java. 



Distribution: Unknown. 



Comment: This taxon was called Atractus favae by Boulenger, Cat. Sn. Brit. Mus., 2, I894, 313, 

 and its distribution was given by Boulenger as "Brazil?" It is not mentioned by Inger and Marx 

 in their recent revision of Calamar ia , and it has not been included in any recent works on Javan 

 species. Savage, Misc. Publ. Mus. Zool. Univ. Mich., 112, I96O, regarded it as a nomen dubium 

 and did not include it in his list of species of the genus Atractus . Recent authors on Brazilian 

 species have not mentioned it. 



COCHLIOPHAGUS ISOLEPIS Mjller 



1924 Cochl ioDhaaus isolepis MuUer, Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin, 11: 9I. Type-locality: South America. 



Distribution: Unknown. 



Comment: This is clearly not a Dipsadine snake, although the genus Cochl iphaqus is a synonym of 

 S i bynomorphus . We do not know where it properly belongs. 



