42 BULLETIN 18 7, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



Tachi/menis taeniata Petebs, Monatsb. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1869 (Dec), pp. 876- 

 877 ( type locality, possibly Puebla ; type in Berlin Mus. ) . 



Type.— U.S. 'NM. No. 30265, two cotypes. 



Type locality. — Chihuitan, Oaxaca. 



Range. — Central Oaxaca to Bebedero, Costa Rica, on the west coast, 

 and central Honduras (known from El Barrio, Chihuitan, Juchitan, 

 Tapanatepec, and Tehuantepec, Oaxaca). 



CONIOPHANES QUINQUEVITTATUS (Dumgril, Bibron, and Dnmgril) 



Homalopsis guinque-vittatus Dttmertl, Bibeon, and Dumeril, Erp^tologie 



ggnerale, vol. 7, pt. 2, 1854, pp. 975-977. 

 Coniophanes quinquevittatus Bailey, Pap. Michigan Acad. Sci. Arts Lett., vol. 24, 



pt. 2, 1938 (1939) , pp. 26-28, pi. 1, fig. 6, map text fig. 3. 

 Calopisma quinquevittatum mexicana Jan, Arch. Zool. Anat. Fis., vol. 3, 1865, pp. 



55, 244 (type locality, Mexico; type in Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris). 

 Hydrops luiricus Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1871, p. 217 (type 



locality, Coatzacoalcos River, Veracruz; type, U. S. N. M. No. 61182). 



Type. — Presumably in Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris. 



Type locality. — Unknown. 



Range. — Southern Veracruz to northern Guatemala (not known 

 from any precise locality in Mexico ; the most exact is "Coatzacoalcos 

 River, Veracruz'''). 



CONIOPHANES SCHMIDTI Bailey 



Coniophanes schmidU Bailey, Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, No. 362, 1937, 

 pp. 1-3; Pap. Michigan Acad. Sci. Arts Lett., vol. 24, pt. 2, 1938 (1939), pp. 

 31-32, pi. 2, fig. 1, pi. 3, fig. 2, map text fig. 4. 



Type.— Vniv. Mich. Mus. Zool. No. 73043. 

 Type locality. — Chichen Itza, Yucatan. 



Range. — Central Peten, Guatemala, to the tip of the Yucatan Penin- 

 sula (in Mexico known from the type locality and Mayapan, YiLcatdn) . 



Genus CONOPHIS Peters 



Cayiophis Peteks, Monatsb. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1860, p. 519. — Smith, Journ. 

 Washington Acad. Sci., vol. 31, 1941, pp. 117-124 (a brief, incomplete review 

 of species of genus) ; Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 92, 1942, pp. 394-395 (ad- 

 denda to preceding). 



Genotype. — Conophis mttatus Peters. 



Range. — Jalisco and Veracruz southward on both coasts to Costa 

 Rica; Brazil. 



/Species. — Five subspecies, distributed among three species, occur in 

 Mexico. In addition, one species {taeniatus Hensel) from Brazil is 

 referred to the genus; another from Costa Rica {nevei'inanni Dunn) 

 belongs to it; and a race of Ivneatus (dunni Smith) and of pulcher 

 {pulcher Cope) occur in Central America. 



