CHECKLIST OF THE SNAKES OF MEXICO 67 



GEOPHIS BICOLOR Giinther 



Oeophis bioolor Gunther, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 4, vol. 1, 1868, p. 416. 

 Diroscma bicolor Boulengek, Catalogue of the snakes in the British Museum, vol. 

 2, 1894, p. 298, pi. 14, tig. 2. 



Type. — Brit. Mus. Nat. Hist,, four cotypes. 



Type locality. — "Mexico City." 



Range. — Mexico (city) to western Jalisco (known from only two 

 moderately definite localities: "Mexico City" and La Cumbre de los 

 Arrastrados, Jalisco). 



GEOPHIS BLANCHARDI Taylor and Smith 



Oeophis blo/nxihardi Tayix>r and Smith, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., vol. 25, 1938 

 (1939), pp. 245-247, fig. 2.— Smith, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 93, 1943, pp. 

 430-431. 



Type.—E. H. Taylor-H. M. Smith Coll. No. 5194. 

 Type locality. — Two miles west of Acultzingo, Veracruz. 

 Range. — The Sierra Madre Oriental in central Veracruz (known 

 only from the vicinity of the type locality, in Puebla and Veracruz) . 



GEOPHIS CANCELLATUS Smith 



Oeophis cancellatus Smith, Smithsonian Misc. Coll., vol. 99, No. 19, 1941, p. 1. 



Type.— U.S.lii.M. No. 46440. 



Type locality. — Chicharras, Chiapas. 



Range. — Known only from the type locality. 



GEOPHIS CHALYBEUS (Wagler) 



Catostoma chalyheum Wagler, Natiirliches System der Amphibien, 1830, p. 194. 

 Oeophis chalyheus Peters, Monatsb. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1859, pp. 275-276. — 



Smith, Smithsonian Misc. Coll., vol. 99, No. 19, 1941, p. 3. 

 RhaMosoma gnttuJatum Cope, Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc, vol. 22, 1885, p. 385 (type 



locality, Veracruz; cotypes, U.S.N.M. Nos. 25024-5, 30399). 



Type. — Berlin Mus. 



Type locality. — Mexico. 



Range. — ^Known only from "Veracruz." 



GEOPHIS DUBIUS (Peters) 



Oeophidium duMum Pettees, Monatsb. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1861, p. 923. 



Oeophis duhius Bocouet, Mission scientifique au Mexique et dans I'Am^rique 

 centrale, Kept., livr. 9, 1S83, pp. 532-533, pi. 31, fig. 9.— Boulengee, Catalogue 

 of the snakes in the British Museum, vol. 2, 1894, pp. 322, 323. 



Oeophis fuscus Fischer, Abh. Naturw. Ver. Hamburg, vol. 9, 1886, pp. 11-12, pi. 

 2, fig. 5 (type locality, Jalapa, Veracruz ; type in Brit. Mus. Nat. Hist). 



Type. — Berlin Mus. 

 Type locality. — "Tehuantepec." 



Range. — Recorded from western Guatemala, "Tehuantepec" {Oax- 

 aca?) , and Jalapa, Yera/iruz; range uncertain. 



