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into pale brownish gniy at the commissure; slight traces of rufous on 

 rostral and other shields of face; iris silvery g-ray clouded with dusky. 



No. 29583 a somewhat smaller individual (1,5()() nun. total length) 

 brought home hy Mr. liowdish is very similar in coloration, only the 

 underside is more slate color, and the pattern much more distinct, the 

 crossbars showing paler centers with ))lackish margins; t\w spots of 

 the lateral series show a tendency to form a lateral l>lackis]i line on the 

 anterior third of the body. 



No. 2745() (1, .■)*,♦( > nnn. long), collected by Captain Hansard, died at 

 the National Zoological Park on July 0, 19(10, show(Kl hardly any traces 

 of bars or spots; general color al)ove, chestnut, darkest on the median 

 region and tail, gradually becoming lighter toward the ventrals; the 

 latter brownish-slate color with pale edges; throat and chin mottled 

 dull rufous and brownish slate; scattered obscure dusky spots on 

 flanks. 



Ilahltaf. — This large snake is contined to Porto Rico, where it is 

 found in wooded and rocky places of the foothills. It is now" getting 

 to be rather rare, so nmch so that neither the FlsJihairl' parties, Mr. 

 Baker, Dr. Richmond, nor myself saw one during our explorations. 

 Mr. Baker, however, saw the trail of them in the grass. 



E. mornafiis has l)een recorded unqualifiedly from Haiti ))y Bocourt 

 upon the strength of a specimen in the Paris Museum. He gives no 

 particulars, however, but there can be no doiil)t that it is the same 

 specimen briefly described by DumeriP' as showing some peculiarities in 

 the cephalic scutellation as well as a very aberrant coloration. Dumeril 

 himself seems strongly inclined to regard it as belonging to a difl'erent 

 species, and to me it appears quite possible that the specimen in <pies- 

 tion may be a young E.ford'il. 



Zenneck* gives Cuba as one of the localities of Eplcrates inornatus 

 and cites Bibron'' as authority, but I have been unable to find any such 

 reference. As a matter of fact, Bibron's work was published before 

 Reinhardt described E. inoniatus. 



«Cat. M^th. Kept. Mus., Paris, 1851, p. 220. 

 fiZeitsch. Wiss. Zool., LXIV, 1898, p. 348. 

 ''R. de la Sagra's Histoire, etc. 



