74. DROMICUS. 125 



the spois varj' exceedingly, and may be very small or so large as to 

 nearly cover the ground-colour ; a dark hand on each side" of the 

 head, passing through the eye, widening on the temple, and some- 

 times continued along the body ; lower parts yellow, more or less 

 dotted Avith brown ; in some specimens the hinder part of the body 

 and the tail blackish brown. 



Total length 12:J0 millim. ; tail 270. 



West Indies (Anguilla, St. Martin, St. Bartholomew, Saba, St. 

 Eustatius, St. Kitts, Nevis). 



A. Scales in 23 rows, 



?• ,^ I^'-x^^^ ' ^- ^^■*)- S*- rinstatius. Commodore MarkhamfP.l 

 6-A. 5 (V. 210. 21o; C. St. Kitts. - Hog-an, Esq. rP.l. 



97,97),hgr.(V.211.21.5, " ' 4- L-f^-J- 



213. 204; C. ill, 95, ?, 

 100), &yg. (V.213;0. 

 94). 



V ?, ^Y; 214 ; C. 96). St. Kitts. Mus. Comp. Zoolo^v [E 1 



k. 2 (V.201; C. 99). St. Bartholomew. Mu.. Com ,. Zoolo-v e' 1 



I. c? (V 214 : 0. 119). Nevis. Mus. Comi. Zoology e" 1 



m. $ (V. 217 ; C. 98). ? ^ "^ '- -' 



B. Scales in 21 rows. 



«. c? {V. 202; C. 112). Anguilla. Mus. Comp. Zoology [E.]. 



o-p. S rV. 208 ; C. ?) & AnguiUa. AV. E. EUiott [C 1 



ligr. (V. 205; C. 114). ^ -'' 



8. Dromicus anomalus. 



Zamenis anomalus, Peter.% Mon. Berl. Ac. 1863, p. 282 

 Dromicus (Alsophis; anomalus, Fischer, Jahrh. Hamb. Wiss. Anst 

 V. 1888, p. 37. 



Eye moderate ; snout projecting, rather pointed. Rostral nearly 

 as deep as broad, well visible from above ; iuternasals as long as 

 broad, a little shorter than the prajfrontals ; frontal once and%ne 

 third to once and two thirds as long as broad, as long as or shorter 

 than its distance from the end of the snout, shorter tha'n the parietals • 

 loreal longer than deep; one praj- and two postocniars; a laro-e 

 subocular usually separating the eye from the fifth and sixth labials • 

 temporals 1 + 2 ; eight upper labials, fourth entering the eye third 

 sometimes just touching the eye ; five lower labials'in contact with 

 the anterior chin-shields, which are as long as the posterior. Scales 

 in 21 rows. Ventrals obtusely angulate laterally, 20.5-219 • anal 

 divided ; subcaudals 118-130. Length of tail 3f "to 4i times in the 

 total length. Pale brown above, the head-shields and%cales edged 

 with darker : young with numerous, more or less distinct, irreo-iriar 

 dark cross bands ; ventrals yellowish, with the outer ends' brown 



Total length 1950 millim, ; tail 550, 



Santo Domingo. 



