118 BULLETIN 18 7, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



Type locality. — Magdalena, Jalisco. 



Range. — Edge of the central Mexican Plateau from Jalisco to south- 

 ern Sinaloa (known from the type locality and from Queseria, 

 ^olima; Guadalajara, Jalisco; and Plomosas, Sinaloa). 



RHADINAEA LACHRYMANS (Cope) 



LygopMs lachrymans Cope, Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc, vol. 11, 1869, p. 154. 

 Rhadinaea lachrymans Cope, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, ser. 2, vol. 8, 



1876, p. 140.— Bailey, Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, No. 412, 1940, pp. 



&-7, pi. 1, fig. 4. 



Type.— Acud. Nat. Sci. Phila. No. 5539. 



Type locality. — Uncertain. 



Range. — Mountains of extreme southern Chiapas and adjacent 

 Guatemala (known in Mexico from several localities in southern 

 "Chiapas). 



RHADINAEA LAUREATA (Gunther) 



Dromicus laureatus Gunthek, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 4, vol. 1, 1868, p. 419, 



pi. 19, fig. E. 

 Rhadinaea laureata Boulenger, Catalogue of the snakes in the British Museum, 



vol. 2, 1894, p. 179. — Bailey, Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, No. 412, 



1940, pp. 5-6, pi. 1, fig. 5.— Smith, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 93, 1943, p. 



465, pi. 32, fig. 4. 

 Mrythrolamprus grammophrys DuGfis, La Naturaleza, ser. 2, vol. 1, 1880, pp. 



402-403, pi. 27, fig. 13 (type locality, Tengohecho, Michoacan ; type in Museo 



Alfredo Duges, Univ. Guanajuato, Mexico). 



Type. — Brit. Mus. Nat. Hist. 



Type locality. — Mexico (City). 



Range. — In mountains from Distrito Federal through Michoacan 

 to central Durango (recorded from Distrito Federal and the states 

 of Durango, Jalisco, Michoacan, and Morelos). 



RHADINAEA MONTANA Smith 



Rhadinaea quinquelineata Bailey {nee Cope), Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michi- 

 gan, No. 412, 1940, pp. 11-12 (part), pi. 1, fig. 1 (body pattern of montuna 

 paratype). 



Rhadinaea montana Smith, Publ. Field Mus. Nat. Hist., zool. ser., vol. 29, 1944, 

 pp. 146-148. 



Type.—Fiekl Mus. Nat. Hist. No. 30826. 

 Type locality. — Ojo de Agua, near Galeana, Nuevo Leon. 

 Range. — Known at present only from southern Nuevo Leon (the 

 type locality and Monterrey). 



RHADINAEA OMILTEMANA (Gunther) 



Dromicus omiltemanus Gijnthepv, Biologia Centrali-Americana, Rept., 1894, p. 



113, pi. 40, fig. B. 

 Rhadinaea omiltemana Bailey, Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, No. 412, 



1940, pp. 13-14, pi. 2, fig. 2. , 



