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Conophis pulcher plagosU'S Smith, Journ. Washington Acad. Sci., vol. 31, 1941, 

 pp. 121-122 (type locality, Tonaia, Chiapas; ty^e, U.S.N.M, No. 109707). 



Type. — Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris. 

 Type locality. — Unknown. 



Range. — Pacific slopes of Chiapas and possibly Guatemala. Known 

 definitely only from Tonala, Chiapas. 



CONOPHIS VITTATUS VITTATUS Peters 



Conophis vittatus Peters, Monatsb. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1860, pp. 519-520, pi., 

 fig. 3. — BocouBT, Mission scientifique au Mexique et dans I'Am^rique centrale, 

 Kept., livr. 10, 1886, p. 644 (part?), pl. 38, fig. 7.— Taylor and Smith, Univ. 

 Kansas Sci. Bull., vol. 25, 1938 (1939), pp. 252-253, pl. 23, fig. 1. 



Conophis vittatus vittatus Smith, Journ. Washington Acad. Sci., vol. 31, 1941, 

 pp. 119-120. 



Conophis sumichrastii sumichrastii Cope, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 

 ser. 2, vol. 8, 1876, p. 137 (type locality, Tehuantepec and Guadalajara, re- 

 stricted to the latter; cotypes, U.S.N.M. Nos. 29123, 30258; lectotype, No. 

 29123). 



Type. — Berlin Mus. 



7'ype locality. — Unknown. 



Range. — Pacific coast from Nayarit south into Oaxaca (known from 

 several localities in the states of Colima, Guerrero, Jalisco, Michoacan, 

 Morelos, and Oaxaca). 



CONOPHIS VITTATUS VIDUUS Cope 



Conophis sumichrastii viduus Cope, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, ser. 2, 

 vol. 8, 1870, p. 137. 



Conophis vittatus viduus Smith, Journ. Washington Acad. Sci., vol. 31, 1941, 

 pp. 120-121. 



C.lonophis^ v.[ittatus] videns Cope, Ann. Rep. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1898 (1900), p. 

 1095 (presumably a lapsus calamus for v. viduus; however, a diagnosis is 

 given and the type locality stated as "Tehuantepec", type not designated 

 but by inference U.S.N.M. No. 30259, the type of viduus Cope). 



Type.—V.S.'^.'hl. No. 30259. 



Type locality.- — Tehuantepec, Oaxaca. 



Range. — Pacific slopes of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec (recorded 

 from Chivela, El Barrio, Salina Cruz, Tapanatepec, and Tehuantepec, 

 Oaxaca) . 



Genus CONOPSIS Gunther 



Conopsis GtJNTHEiR, Catalogue of the snakes in the British Museum, 1858, p. 6. — 

 Taylor and Smith, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., vol. 28, 1942, pp. 325-337, figs. 

 1-3, pl. 30, figs. 2, 3, pl. 31, fig. 1, pl. 32, figs. 2-4, pl. 35, figs. 4, 5, 9 (generic 

 revision). 



Exorhina Jan, Arch. Zool. Anat. Fis., vol. 2, 1862, p. 61 (type, E. nmciilata Jan). 



Epirhina Jan, ibid., pp. 62-63 (type, E. tessellata Jan). 



