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Type.— Brit. Mus. Nat. Hist. 



Type locality. — Omilteme, Guerrero. 



Range. — Sierra Madre del Siir, central Guerrero. 



RHADINAEA QUINQUELINEATA Cope 



Rhadinaea quinquelineata Cope, Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc, vol. 23, 1886, p. 277. — 

 Smith, Piibl. Field Mus. Nat. Hist, zool. ser., vol. 29, 1944, pp. 147-148, fig. 19 

 (body pattern). 



Type.— U.S.^.M. No. 31350. 



Type locality. — Teziutlan, Puebla. 



Range. — Hidalgo and northern Puebla, in mountains at the edge of 

 the plateau (known only from the type locality and Zacualtipan, 

 Hidalgo). 



RHADINAEA TAENIATA (Peters) 



Dromicus taeniatus Peteks, Monatsb. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1863, pp. 275-277. 

 Rhadinaea taeniata Bailey, Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, No. 412, 1940, 

 pp. 14-15, pi. 2, fig. 4. 



Type. — Berlin Mus., two cotypes. 



Type locality. — Mexico. 



Range. — ^IMountains of western Jalisco (the only definite localities 

 known are La Cumbre de los Arrastrados, Jalisco, and Tancitaro, 

 Michoacdn) . 



RHADINAEA VITTATA (Jan) « 



Enicognathus vittatus Jan, Arch. Zool. Anat. Fis., vol. 2, 1863, pp. 271-272, 327 

 (part ; type locality, Mexico ; type in Paris Mus. ; a secondary homonym of 

 Liophis vittatus [Hallowell, 1845] Cope, 1859, by virtue of Amaral's (1929) 

 reference of Jan's name to Liophis) ; Iconographie gen^rale des ophidieus, 

 livr. 16, 1866, pi. 2, figs. 2-3 (restricted to fig. 3). 



Rhadinaea fidvivittis Cope, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, ser. 2, vol. 8, 1876, 

 pp. 139-140 (type locality, "Alpine region, Orizaba, Veracruz"; type, U.S.N.M. 

 No. 7075). — Bailey, Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, No. 412, 1940, pp. 

 10-11, pi. 2, fig. 1.— Smith, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 93, 1943, p. 464, pi. 32, 

 fig. 2. 



Type. — Paris Mus. 

 Type locality. — Mexico. 



Range. — Eastern mountains from central Veracruz to central Oax- 

 aca (recorded only from the states of Oaxaca and Veracruz). 



Genus RHADINELLA Smith 



Rhadinella Smith, Copeia, 1941, No. 1, p. 7. 



Genotype. — Rhadinella schistosa Smith. 

 Range. — Foothills of central Veracruz. 

 Species. — One. 



s8 lihadinaea fulvivittis Cope to those who do not agree with suppression of secondary 

 homonyms. 



