CHECKLIST OF THE SNAKES OF MEXICO 87 



LEPTODEIRA ANNUI^iTA POLYSTICTA Gunther 



Lepiodeira polysticta Gunthee, Biologia Centrali-Americana, Rept, 1895, pi. 55, 

 fig. A. 



Leptodeira annulata polysticta Stttaet, Misc. Publ. Mus. Zool. Uuiv. Michigan, 

 No. 29, 1935, p. 52.— Taylor, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., vol. 25, 1938 (1939), 

 pp. 831-333 (part), pi. 30, fig. 3.— Smith, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 54, 

 1941, p. 115 ; Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 93, 1943, pp. 438-439. 



Type.— Brit Mus. Nat. Hist. 



Type locality. — Restricted to Belize, British Honduras. 



Range. — Tabasco and Nayarit southward on both coasts to Panama, 

 inchiding the Yucatan Peninsula (recorded in Mexico from numerous 

 localities in the states of Campeche, Chiapas, Colima, Jalisco, Micho- 

 acan, Morelos, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Tabasco, and Yucatan, and from 

 the territory of Quintana Roo). 



LEPTODEIRA ANNULATA SEPTENTRIONALIS (Kennicott) 



Dipsas septentrionalis Kennicott, in Baird, Rep. U. S. Mex. Bound. Surv., vol. 2, 



1859, Rept., p. 16, pi. 8, fig. 1. 

 Leptodeira septentrionalis Taylor, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., vol. 25, 1988 (1939), 



pp. 329-331, fig. 4; vol. 26, 1939 (1940), p. 480.— Ditmars, Reptiles of North 



America, 1936, p. 302, pi. 89, upper fig. 

 Leptodeira annulata septentrionalis Smith, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 54, 



1941, p. 117 ; Publ. Field Mus. Nat. Hist., zool. ser., vol. 29, 1944, p. 143. 



Ty^e.— U.S.N.M. No. 4267, two cotypes (also U.S.N.M. No. 2288, 

 missing) . 



Type locality. — Matamoros, Tamaulipas, and Brownsville, Tex. 



Range. — Extreme southern Texas to northern Veracruz (recorded 

 m Mexico from several localities in the states of Nuevo Leon, Tamauli- 

 pas, northern Veracruz, San Luis Potosi, Queretaro, and Hidalgo; 

 the more southerly specimens approach taylori in character) . 



LEPTODEIRA ANNULATA TAYLORI Smith 



Leptodeira annulata taylori Smith, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 54, 1941, 

 p. 115. 



ry/?e.— U.S.N.M. No. 30208. 



Type locality. — Orizaba, Veracruz. 



Range. — Northern Veracruz to the Isthmus of Tehuantepec (known 

 from several localities in Veracruz, and in the extreme eastern part 

 of Puebla). 



LEPTODEIRA BRESSONI Taylor 



Leptodeira Iressoni Taylor, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., vol. 25, 1938 (1939), pp. 

 321^25, fig. 2, pi. 31, fig. 4, pi. 33, fig. 4. 



Type.—E. H. Taylor-H. M. Smith Coll. No. 5172. 

 Type locality. — Hacienda El Sabino, 20 miles south of IJruapan, 

 Michoacan. 



