IIG COLUBEID^. 



porals 1+2; eight upper labials, third, fourth, and fifth entering 

 the eye ; five lower labials in contact with the anterior chin- 

 shields, which are shorter than the posterior. Scales in 17 rows. 

 Ventrals 163-176; anal divided; subcaudals 162-206. Olive- 

 green above, each scale black-edged ; upper lip, two or three outer 

 rows of scales, and lower parts greenish white ; a more or less 

 distinct white lateral streak ; a blackish streak on each side of the 

 head and neck, passing through the eve. 



Total length 1310 millim. ; tail 580. 



Santo Domingo. 



a, b, c. S (V. 170, 163 ; S. Domingo. 



C. 181, 170) & $ (V. 

 165: C. 172). 



d. 9 (V. 103 ; C. 162). Havti. Zoologicnl Society. 



e. $ (V. 170 ; C. 184). Cape Hayti. Hr. Rolle [C.]. 



2. Uromacer frenatus. 



Ahfetulla frenata, Gilnth. Ann. Sf Maq. N. H. (3) xv. 1865, p. 94, 



pi. ii. fig. B. 

 Uromacer inornatus, Garm. Proc. Am. Philos. Soc. xxiv. 1887, 



p. 284. 



Head very long and narrow, body extremely slender; snout 

 rather pointed, projecting, twice and a half as long as the eye. 

 Eostral nearly as deep as broad, scarcely visible from above ; inter- 

 nasals much longer than broad, shorter than the prajfrontals ; 

 frontal rather more than twice as long as broad, a little shorter 

 than its distance from the end of the snout or than the parietals ; 

 nasal long and narrow, divided ; prasfrontal in contact with the 

 second labial ; a small loreal between the praeocular and the prte- 

 f rental ; one prae- and two post oculars ; temporals 14-2; eight 

 upper labials, third, fourth, and fifth entering the eye ; four lower 

 labials in contact with the anterior chin-shields, which are shorter 

 than the posterior. Scales in 17 rows. Ventrals 182-193: anal 

 divided ; subcaudals 201-205. Greyish olive above and below, 

 punctulated or powdered with darker and with a few widely 

 scattered small black spots ; upper surface of head and nape green 

 with a blackish lateral streak, passing through the eye, edged below 

 by a whitish streak. 



Total length 1250 millim. ; tail 550. 



Santo Domingo. 



«. d(V. 191; C.?). ? (Type.) 



/k d (V. 190; C.?). Jeremie, Hayti. Dr. J. G. Fischer. 



c. d iy. 193; C. 205). S. Domingo. 



3. Uromacer oxyrhynchus. 



Uromacer oxvrhynchus, Dum. 4'- Bihr. vii. p. 722, pi. Ixxxiii. fig. 1 

 (1854); Garman, Proc. Am. Philos. Soc. xxiv. 1887, p. 284; 

 Fincher, Jalirb. Hanib. Wiss. Anst. v. 1888, p. 41, pi. iii. fig. 6. 



