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NINIA DIADEMATA PLORATOR Smith 

 Tiinia diademata plorator Smith, Copeia, 1942, pp. 153-154. 



Type.—E. H. Taylor-H. M. Smith Coll. No. 23557. 

 Type locality. — Durango, Hidalgo. 



Range. — Northeastern Hidalgo (known only from the type locality 

 and Zacualtipan). 



NINIA SEBAE SEBAE (Dum^ril, Bibron, and Dumeril) 



Streptopliorus Sehae Dumeeil, Bibeon, and DuMf.RiL, Erpetologie gen^rale, vol. 



7, pt. 1, 1854, p. 515. — Jan, Iconographie generate des ophidiens, livr. 12, 1865, 



pi. 3, fig. 4. 

 Ninia sehae Dunn, Proc. Nat, Acad. Sci., vol. 21, 1935, p. 11. 

 Jfl'mia sehae sehae Schmidt and Andrews, Pnbl. Field Mus. Nat. Hist., zool. ser., 



vol. 20, 1936, p. 170.— Smith, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 93, 1943, pp. 456-457. 

 Streptophortis sehae collaris Jan, Arch. Zool. Anat Fis., vol. 2, 1862, p. 27 (type 



locality, Mexico; type in Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris); Iconographie generale 



des ophidiens, livr. 12, 1865, pi. 3, fig. 6. 

 Streptophorus maculatiis tessellatus Bocoitrt, Mission scientifique au Mexique et 



dans I'Amerique centrale. Kept., livr. 9, 1883, p. 550, pi. 33, fig. 4. 



Type.— Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris No. 3778. 



Type locality. — Mexico, restricted to Veracruz (Schmidt and An- 

 drews, loc. cit. ) . 



Range. — Costa Eica to northern Veracruz and southern Oaxaca, 

 including Pacific Chiapas but avoiding the central and northern parts 

 of the Yucatan Peninsula and the arid (Pacific) portions of the Isth- 

 mus of Tehuantepec (recorded from the states of Chiapas, Oaxaca, 

 Tabasco, and Veracruz). 



NINIA SEBAE MORLEYI Schmidt and Andrews 



'Ninia sehae morleyi Schmidt and Andrews, Publ. Field Mus. Nat. Hist., zool. 

 ser., vol. 20, 1936, pp. 169-171, 185.— Andrews, ihid., vol. 20, 1937, p. 357.— 

 Smith, Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, No. 388, 1939, p. 19. 



Type.— Y'l^ldi Mus. Nat. Hist. No. 20619. 



Type locality. — Chichen Itza, Yucatan. 



Range. — The Yucatan Peninsula, except the extreme southern por- 

 tion, including British Honduras (known from the states of Yucatan 

 and Campeche, and from the territory of Quintana Roo). 



Genus OPHEODRYS Fitzinger 



Opheodrys Fitzingeb, Systenia reptiliuin, 1843, p. 26.— Schmidt and Neckek, 

 Herpetologica, vol. 1, 1936, pp. 63-64 (rearrangement of species of genus). 



Cyclophis GiJNTHEB, Catalogue of the snakes in the British Museum, 1858, p. 119 

 (type. Coluber aestivus Linnaeus). 



Genotype. — Goliiber aestivus Linnaeus. 



Range. — Eastern Asia, eastern and central United States, Yucatan. 



Species. — Seven species are known in the genus, three occurring in 



