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Range. — Central and southern Veracruz in coastal regions and low 

 hills (not to coast in extreme southern Veracruz) ; northern 

 Oaxaca (known only from four localities in the states of Oaxaca and 

 Veracruz). 



FICIMIA OLIVACEA STRECKERI Taylor 



Ficimia streckeri Taylor, Copeia, 1931, No. 1, pp. 5-7. — Smith and Taylob, 

 Journ. Washington Acad. Sci., vol. 31, 1941, p. 368, figs. 3, 8, 14 (head scales 

 and head pattern). — Mixlaik and Mulaik, Amer. Midi. Nat., vol. 29, 1943, 

 pp. 796-797. 



Ficimia olivacea streckeri Smith, Publ. Field Mus. Nat. Hist., zool. ser., vol. 29, 

 1944, p. 139. 



Type. — Kansas Univ. Mus. No. 4140. 



Type locality. — Three miles east of Rio Grande City, Tex. 



Range. — Extreme southern Texas to northern Veracruz (known in 

 Mexico only from Santiago, Nuevo Leon; Jacala, Hidalgo; and Tux- 

 pan, Veracruz). 



FICIMIA PUBLIA Cope 



Ficimia puWia Cope, Pro< . Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 18, 1866, p. 126. — 



Smith and Taylor. Joarn. Washington Acad. Sci., vol. 31, 1941, pp. 362-364, — 



Smith, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 93, 1943, p. 429. 

 Ficimia ornata Bocoltjt, Mission scientifique au Mexique et dans I'Am^rique cen- 



trale, R.pt., livr. 9, 1883, pp. 571-572, pi. 35, fig. 10 (type locality, Mexico; 



type in Berlin Mus.). 



Type.—U.S.^M. Nos. 16427-8, two cptypes. 



2'ype locality. — Yucatan. 



Range. — From the Isthmus of Tehuantepec to Honduras on the 

 Atlantic and to southern Guatemala on the Pacific ; west to Guerrero 

 on the Pacific (recorded in Mexico from a few localities in the states 

 of Campeche, Chiapas, Guerrero, Oaxaca, Veracruz, and Yucatan). 



FICIMIA RUSPATOR Smith and Taylor 



Ficimia olivacea Gi/ntheb (nee Gray), Biologia Centrali-Americana, Kept., 1893, 



p. 98 (part), pi. 35, fig. C (not fig. B). 

 Ficimia rttspator Smith and Taylor, Journ. Washington Acad. Sci., vol. 31, 1941, 



pp. 364-365, figs. 5, 10, 12 (head scales and head pattern). 



Type.—E. H. Taylor-H. M. Smith Coll. No. 23646. 

 I'ype locality. — Three miles east of Tixtla, Guerrero. 

 Range. — Central Guerrero and Morelos (known only from the type 

 locality and Cuernavaca, Morelos). 



FICIMIA VARIEGATA (Gunther) 



Amblymetopon variegatum Glnther, Catalogue of the snakes in the British 



Museum, 1858, pp. 7-8. 

 Ficimia variegata Smith and Taylor, Journ. Washington Acad. Sci., vol. 31, 



1941, pp. 365-^66. 



Type.— Brit. Mus. Nat. Hist. 



