CHECKLIST OF THE SNAKES OF MEXICO 183 



Trimeresurus nummifer Mooquabd, Mission scientifique au Mexique et dans 



l'Am<5rique centrale, Kept, livr. 17, 1909, pp. 941-942. 

 T.[rimercsurus] n.[ntmnifer] nummifer Dunn, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 



52, 1939, pp. 165-166.— Smith, Zoologica, vol. 26, part 1, 1941, p. 62.* 



Type. — Senckenberg Mus. No. 9544, la. 



Type locality. — Mexico. 



Range. — ^Foothills of northern Veracruz, eastern Hidalgo, and ex- 

 treme northeastern Puebla (known in Mexico from the states of 

 Hidalgo, Puebla, and Veracruz). 



*BOTHROPS SCHLEGELII (Berthold) 



Trigonocephalus schlegelii Bekthold, Abh. Ges. "Wiss. Gottingen, vol. 3, 1846, p. 13, 



pi. 1, figs. 5, 6. 

 Bothrops schlegeli Jan, Elenco sistematico degli Ofidi, 1863, p. 127. 

 Botriechis schlegelii (sic) Tekeon, Anal. Inst. Biol. Mex., vol. 1, 1930, pp. 196-197, 



fig. 7. 

 Trimeresurus schlegelii Schmidt, Publ. Field Mvis. Nat. Hist., zool. ser., vol. 22, 



1941, p. 509. 

 Teleuraspis nigroadspersus Gaeman, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 8, 1883, pp. 



12&-127, 180. 



Type. — Gottingen Mus. (?). 



Type locality. — Colombia. 



Range. — British Honduras and probably adjacent Mexico south- 

 ward to Ecuador and Colombia (no definite records available from 

 Mexico; its occurrence there is inferred by Carman's and Terron's 

 "Mexico" records, and by the known occurrence of the species very 

 nearby in British Honduras (Schmidt)). 



BOTHROPS UNDULATUS (Jan) 



Trigonocephalus (Atropos) undulatus Jan, Rev. Mag. Zool., 1859, p. 157, pi. B. 

 Bothrops undulatus Gunthee, Biologia Centrali-Americana, Kept. Ampli., 1895, 



p. 187. 

 Trimeresurus undulatus Mocquard, Mission scientifique au Mexique et dans 



I'Amerique centrale, Kept., livr. 17, 1909, pp. 946-947, pi. 77, fig. 1. — Smith, 



Zoologica, vol. 26, part 1, 1^1, p. 63. 



Type. — ^Milan Mus. 



Type locality. — Mexico. 



Range. — High elevations in mountains of central western Vera- 

 cruz, southward through central Oaxaca and northward in central 

 Guerrero in the Sierra Madre del Sur (known only from Omilteme 

 and Chilpancingo, Guerrero; Oaxaca, Oaxaca; Actopam and Orizaba, 

 Y eracruz) . 



•5 Dr. Dunn informs us that in the light of recent discoveries his picadoi of Costa Rica 

 cannot be considered a subspecies of nummifer; since this was the only presumed race of 

 nummifer we revert to the binomial. 



