CROCODILIANS, LIZARDS, AND SNAKES. 861 



EPIGLOTTOPHIS PLEUROSTICTUS Dumeril and Bibron. 



[No description of this species was found in Professor Cope's manu- 

 script. Description and synonymy are given in Boulenger's Catalogue 

 of the Snakes in the Britisli Museum, II, 1894, p. 66, under the name 

 Coluber deppii.] 



EPIGLOTTOPHIS LINEATICOLLIS Cope. 



Arizona lineaticolUs Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1861, p. 300. 



Spilotis lineaticollia Cope, Bnll. U. S. Nat. Mus., Xo. 32, 1887, p. 72. 



Fityophis lineaJcoUis Gunthek, Biol. Centr.-Amer. Kept., 1894, p. 124, pi. xl\ ii. 



Coluber lineaticolUs Boulenger, Cat. Snakes Brit. Mus., II, 1894, p. 64. 



Head distinct, elongate. Rostral plate rounded in profile, much 

 elevated: posterior angle right, not reaching postfrontals. The latter, 

 three times the size of the prefrontals. Vertical longer than broad, the 

 anterior border straight, as long as the occipitals. Five or six small 

 temporals on each side. Xasal plates large; loreal longer than high. 

 Preoculars one or two, i^ostoeulars three. Superior labials eight or 

 nine, liable to irregular subdivision ; fourth and fifth or fourth, fifth, 

 and sixth entering the orbit. Twelve inferior labials; postgeneials 

 very small. Scales small in twenty-seven rows, the median ten keeled. 

 Tail very short. Gastrosteges, 234-244 ; urosteges, 69-72. General color 

 of a specimen long preserved in spirits, above light brown; beneath 

 paler. The head is without markings. On the anterior part of the 

 body, two black bands, two and two halves rows of scales apart, extend 

 for four times the length of the head and terminate each in a narrow 

 elliptic annulus. The latter are nearly confliuent with the succeeding 

 pair of annuli, which are very narrow. These increase in breadth 

 posterioriy until near the middle of the body they become confiuent on 

 the median line, forming geminate open spots; near the tail they lose 

 the geminate form. Their whole number is thirty-six pairs, separate or 

 united. Alternating with these is a smaller series of annuli, which 

 become elongate anteriorly, and finally become short black lines, parallel 

 to, and three scales from the median pair. A few spots on the extremi- 

 ties of the gastrosteges or the posterior part of tlie abdomen. 



Measurements. — Total length, 1,:>2() mm.; length of tail, 190 mii>. 



EpigloUophis lineaticolUs Cope. 



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of apeci- Locality. j From whom received. Nature of specimen, 



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2 I Southern plateau [ Dr. C. Sartorius j Alcoholic. 



This species was originally described from a specimen iu*the museum 

 of the Philadelphia Academy from Jalapa. It therelore inhabits both 

 the Austroriental and Austroccidental districts. The hJ. pleurostictus 



