CHECKLIST OF THE SNAKES OF MEXICO 151 



Tropidodipsas fischeri Boxn-ENGEE, Catalogue of the snakes in the British Museum, 

 vol. 2, 1S94, p. 296 (substitute name for V. fasciata Fischer). 



Type.— Ty^o cotypes, one m Stuttgart Mus., one in Brit. Mus. Nat. 

 Hist. 



Type locality. — Guatemala. 



Range. — Central Guatemala and probably adjacent Chiapas. 



TROPIDODIPSAS GUERREROENSIS Taylor 



Tropidodipsas fosciata Mocquard, Mission scieutifique au Mexique et dans 



I'Amerique ceutrale, Kept., livr. 16, 1908, pp. 872-873, pi. 70, fig. 3 {nee 



Giinther). 

 Tropidodipsas guerreroensis Tatlok, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., vol. 26, 1939 (1940), 



pp. 470^73, fig. 7, pi. 50.— Smith, Journ. Washington Acad. Sci., vol. 33, 



1^3, pp. 372-373. 



Type.—E. H. Taylor-H. M. Smith Coll. No. 5518. 



Type locality. — Near Buena Vista, Guerrero. 



Range. — Known only from the type locality in Guerrero and from 

 Mixtequilla, Santa Efigenia, and Cacoprieto, Oaxaca (a record from 

 "Uruapan?" (Duges, La Naturaleza, ser. 2, vol. 2, 1896, p. 480) may 

 be referable to this species). 



TROPIDODIPSAS MACDOUGALLI Smith 



Tropidodipsas macdougalli Smith, Journ. Washington Acad. Sci., vol. 33, 1943, pp. 

 371-373. 



Type.—E. H. Taylor-H. M. Smith Coll. No. 28088. 

 Type locality. — Tehuantepec, Oaxaca. 

 Range. — Known only from the type locality. 



TROPIDODIPSAS OCCIDENTAUS Oliver 



Tropidodipsas occidentala Oliver, Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, No. 360, 

 1937, pp. 20-22. 



Type.— Vniv. Mich. Mus. Zool. No. 80222. 



Type locality. — Comala, Colima. 



Range. — Known only from the type locality. 



TROPIDODIPSAS PHILIPPII (Jan) 



Leptognatlius philippii Jan, Elenco sistematico degli Ofidi, 1863, p. 101; Icono- 

 graphie gen^rale des ophidiens, livr. 37, 1870, pi. 5, fig. 1. 



Tropidodipsas philippii Boulengee, Cattilogue of the snakes in the British Muse- 

 um, vol. 2, 1894, p. 295. — Mocquard, INIission scientifique au Mexique et dans 

 I'Amerique centrale. Kept., livr. 16, 1908, p. 875, pi. 54, fig. 3.— Smith, Proc. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 93, 1943, pp. 495-496. 



Leptognatlius alt>ocinctus Fischer, Jahrb. Hamburg Wiss. Anst., vol. 2, 1885, pp. 

 107-109, pi. 4, fig. 9 (type locality unknown ["San Francisco," Calif., by 

 error] ~*) (type in Brit, Mus. Nat. Hist). 



Type. — Hamburg Mus. 



" Boulenger (loc. cit.) says the type is labeled San Diego, Calif. 



