HERPETOLOGY OF PORTO KIOO. 



697 



CnJor of liruKj ^peeimen. — U.S.N.M. No. 26883; Catalina Plantation; 

 March 2, 1900; L. Stejneger, No. IMjli. General color purplish red- 

 di.sh-brown; underside whitisli, with a piidvish tinge on the median 

 line; markinos (tig. 164) dusky; iris reddish silvery. 



JI<(h!t(it. — This species appears to ])e strictly contined to Porto Rico, 

 and pr()])a]>ly does not go nuich higher than 1,000 feet altitude. Some 

 doul)t attaches to the locality 

 giyen for specimen No. 2r)r)21* 

 (Adjuntas) and it was proba- 

 bly colUn'ted at a lower level. 



HeiiHirl'-^. — This snake was 

 iirst recorded from Porto 

 Rico l)y Professor Peters on 

 the strength of several speci- 

 mens rcH'eived at the Berlin 

 Museiun from Dr. (xundlach, 

 but he erroneously identitied fk. igg— leim^dophis piRMFPoxs Huti 2-'iT\t- 

 them with DromlcNs panu- ;"■''' ^'^t ""^ ^f^^ '"""'^ ""' ""'^'^'' "^ *^''' 



J txuly. No. 9.S31, l. S.N. if. 



y/Y>;^s'from Haiti, of which he 



had no specimens for comparison. The latter species is very different, 

 however, not only in haA'ing many more subcaudals (in 33 specimens 

 110 to 130), l)ut also in a different color pattern, as show^n in iig. 166. 

 As a matter of fact, the Porto Rican species, here described as new, 

 is much more closely allied to Cope's Droinimis e,v!<jiiu)< from the Vir- 

 gin Islands, the chi(>f difference consisting in the lower number of 

 yentrals in the latter species, as will be shown under that heading. 



Lehnadopkis sialdi. 



U.S.N.M.. 



Do 



1)0 



Do 



Do. 



Do. 

 Berlin . 



7109 

 25529 

 2561G 

 25721 



Age. 



Male.. 

 ...do.. 

 Female 



Male.. 



27323 

 27768 



...do 

 ..do.. 



Locality. 



When col- 

 lected. 



Porto Rico. .' [Latimer] . . 



Adjunta.s? . . j A. B. Baker. 



Caguas I Jan. 12,1899 : do 



By whom col- 

 lected or re- 

 corded. 



El Yunque, 

 East slope. 



Catalina 

 Planta- 

 tion. 



Bayamon... 



Humacao... 

 Porto Rico.. 



.do. 

 .do. 



Feb. 19,1899 U.S. F.C. party. 



Mar. 2,1900 L. Stejneger... 



.—,1900 Dr.A.Stahl 



L.M.McCormick 

 Dr. Tornier in 



letter. 

 do 



85 



Remark.s. 



B e tween 

 600 and 

 900 feet 

 altitnde. 



Figs. 102- 

 164. 



Type, fig. 

 161. 



Peters' s D. 

 parvifrons. 



