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Type.—V.S.^M. Nos. 30339-40, two cotypes. 



Type locality. — "Western region of Mexico near the Isthmus of 

 Tehuantepec." 



Range. — Pacific slopes from central southern Guerrero to the Isth- 

 mus of Tehuantepec (recorded from several localities in southern 

 Guerrero and Oaxaca). 



LEPTODEIRA PUNCTATA (Peters) 



Crotaphopeltis punctaius Peters, Mouatsb. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1866, pp. 93-94. 

 Lcptodeira punctata BouLENGBat, Zoologist, 1887, p. 178. — Taylor, Univ. Kansas 



Sci. Bull., vol. 25, li)3S (1939) , p. 319, pi. 30, fig. 1. 

 Lcptodeira padlica Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 20, 1868 (1869), 



p. 310 (tj^pe locality, Mazatliln, Sinaloa ; type, U.S.N.M. No. 6833).— Dunn, 



Pi-oc. Nat. Acad. Sci., vol. 22, 1936, p. 694. 



Type. — Berlin Mus. 



Type locality. — ^"South Africa" by error ; probably western Mexico. 



Range. — Central Sinaloa south to extreme western Jalisco (re- 

 corded only fi'om Presidio and Mazatlan, Sinaloa, and Lake Chapala, 

 Jalisco). 



LEPTODEIRA SMITHI Taylor 



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

 334-336, fig. 5, pi. 31, fig. 2.— Smith, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 93, 1943, p. 442. 



Type.—E.. H. Taylor-H. M. Smith Coll. No. 5187. 



Type locality. — Hacienda El Sabino, 19 miles south of Uruapan, 

 Michoacan. 



Range. — Rio Balsas Basin in Guerrero, Michoacan, and possibly 

 Morelos and Oaxaca (recorded from several localities in Michoacan., 

 and Balsas, Guerrero) . 



LEPTODEIRA SPLENDIDA Gfinther 



Leptodeira splendida Gunthek, Biologia Central! -Americana, Rept., 1895, 

 p. 171, pi. 53, fig. B.— Taylor, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., vol. 25, 1938 (1939), 

 pp. 320-321, fig. 1, pi. 30, fig. 2. 



Type. — Brit. Mus. Nat. Hist. 



Type locality. — Izucar, Puebla. 



Range. — Morelos, northern Guerrero, and southwestern Puebla. 



LEPTODEIRA YUCATANENSIS YUCATANENSIS (Cope) 



Sibon annulata yucatanensis Cope, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 32, 1887, p. 67. 

 Leptodeira yucafaneiisis yucatanensis Dunn and Stuart, Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool. 



Univ. Michigan, No. 313, 1935, p. 2. 

 ^Leptodeira dnnvkeri Werner, Mitt. Nat. Mus. Hamburg, vol. 30, 1913, pp. 28-29 

 (type locality, Mexico or Venezuela ; type in Hamburg Mus.). 



Type.—U. S. N. M. No. 24887. 

 Type locality. — Yucatan. 



Range. — The northern portion of the Yucatan Peninsula (several 

 records are from Yucatan, including Cozumel Island). 



