75. Liopnis, 131 



sometimes edged above and below by a series of whitish dots, along 

 each side of the posterior half of the body to the end of the tail ; 

 sometimes two other dark lines on the posterior part of the back, 

 confluent into one on the tail ; lower parts white, uniform or black- 

 spotted. 



Total length 750 millim. ; tail 140, 



Ecuador, 



A, Belly unspotted, 



a. $ (V. 158; C. 60). Olalla, 8490 ft. E. Whymper, Esq. 



[C.]. 



b. S (V. 152; cm). Quito. 



c-d. c? (V. 151 ; C. 61) & W. Ecuador, Mr, Eraser [C], 



2 (V. 155; C. 62). 



B. Belly black-spotted. 



e. 2 (V. 156; C. 57). Intac. Mr. Bucklev [C], 



/, Yg. (V. 138 ; C. 55). Guayaquil. Mr. Eraser [G.]. 



5, LiopMs fraseri, (Plate VI, fig. 2.) 



Eye moderate ; snout rather elongate. Rostral twice as broad as 

 deep, just visible from above ; internasals as broad as long, a little 

 shorter than the pnefrontals ; frontal nearly twice as long as broad, 

 as long as its distance from the end of the snout, shorter than the 

 parietals ; loreal a little deeper than long ; one prte- and two post- 

 oculars ; temporals l-\-2; eight upper labials, 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 ] 60 ; anal divided ; subcaudals 70. Pale 

 olive above, with small black spots ; a dark streak on each side of 

 the head, passing through the eye ; upper lip white ; four black 

 streaks along the posterior part of the body, the two upper confluent 

 into one on the tail ; lower parts white, with scattered small black 

 spots. 



Total length 690 millim. ; tail 150. 



Ecuador. 



a. 2 (V. 160 ; G. 70). W. Ecuador. Mr. Eraser [C.]. 



6, LiopMs poecilogyrus. 



Coluber M-nigrum, Raddi, Mem. Soc. Ital. Modena, xviii. (Fis.) 



1820, p. 338. 

 ? Coluber alternans, Licht. Verz. Doiibl. Mas. Berl. p. 104 (1823). 

 Coluber poecilogyrus, Wied, Beitr. Nat. Bras. i. p. 371, and Abbild. 



(1825). 



doliatus {non L.), Wied, Beitr. p. 368, and Abbild. 



bicolor, Reuss, Mm. Senckenb. i. 1834, p. 145, pi. viii. fig. 1. 



Coronella merremii, part., Schley. F/ti/s. Serp. ii. p. 58 (1837). 

 Liophis merremii, part., JJu?n. ^- Bibr. vii. p. 708 (1854) ; Giinth. 



Cat. p. 44 (1858) ; Ilensel, Arch.f. Nat. 1868, p. 3124, 



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