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Bothrops melanura Amaral, Mem. Inst. Butantan, vol. 4, 1929, p. 236. 

 Trimeresurus gareiai Smith, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 53, 1940, pp. 62- 

 64, fig. 2 (type locality, Cacaloapam, Puebla ; type, U. S. N. M. No. 108602). 



Type.— BqvIid. Mus. No. 26403. 

 Type locality. — Mexico. 



Range. — Desert region of southern Puebla and perhaps of northern 

 Oaxaea also (known only from the vicinity of Tehuacan, Pttehla). 



BOTHROPS MEXICANUS (Dumeril, Bibron, and Dumeril) 



Atropos mexicanus Dum^rtl, Bibron, and DuMtBiL, Erp^tologie g4n6rale, vol, 7, 



1854, p. 1521, pi. 83, tig. b. 

 Bothrops mex^icanus Smith, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 93, 1943, pp. 398-400. 

 Bothriechis nummifera notata Fischer, Arch. Nat., 1880, p. 222, pi. 8, figs. 10-12 



(type locality, Coban, Guatemala; type in Stuttgart Mus.). 

 Bothrops nurmnifera Ditmars, Snakes of world, 1931, pis. 56, 57. 



Type. — Paris Mus. 

 Type locality. — Coban, Guatemala. 



Range. — Extreme southern Mexico through Central America 

 (known in Mexico from the states of Chiapas and Tabasco). 



♦BOTHROPS NASUTUS Bocourt »* 



Bothrops nastiAus Bocouht, Ann. Sci. Nat., ser. 5, vol. 10, 1868, p. 202. — Ditmars, 



Snakes of world, 19.31, pi. 55 (upper fig.). 

 Trimeresurus nasiitus Smith, Zoologica, vol. 26, pt. 1, 1941, p. 62. 



Type. — Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris. 

 Type locality. — Panzos, Rio Polochic, Guatemala. 

 Range. — Atlantic foothills of extreme southern Mexico (Veracruz?) 

 south into Guatemala. 



BOTHROPS NIGROVIRIDIS AURIFER (Salvin) 



Thamnocenchris aurifer Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1860, pp. 459-460, pL 



32, fig. 1. 

 Bothrops n.[igroviridis] aurifera Barbour and Lovbridge, Bull. Antiv. Inst. Amer., 



vol. 3, 1929, pp. 1-3.— Martin del Campo, Anal. Inst. Biol. Mex., vol. 9, 1938, 



pp. 227-228, fig. 1. 



Type.— Brit. Mus. Nat. Hist. 

 Type locality. — Coban, Guatemala. 



Range. — Atlantic foothills of central Guatemala and central Chiapas 

 (known in Mexico only from near Comitan, Chiapas). 



BOTHROPS NUMMIFER (Ruppell) 



Atropos nummifer Ruppeix, Verz. Mus. Senck., Amph., 1845, p. 21. 

 Bothrops nummifer Jan, Elenco sistematico degli Ofidi, 1863, p. 126. — Smith, Proc. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 93, 1943, pp. 39'8-401. 



"** No definite records of the occurrence of this species in Mexico are yet available ; its 

 existence there is indicated by a record from Piedras Negras, Guatemala, on the Usuma- 

 cinta River directly across from Chiapas, and by one in the Philadelphia Academy of 

 Natural Sciences labeled "Veracruz," collected by Rev. Heyde. 



