75. LioPHis. 141 



are much shorter thau the posterior. Scales in 17 rows. Ventrals 

 140-150 ; anal divided ; siibcaudals 85-106. Blackish above, with 

 an interrupted yellow line or series of yellow spots on each side, 

 commencing from the tip of the snout ; upper lip white ; ventrals, 

 subcaudals, and outer row of scales white, edged with black. 



Total length 655 millim. ; tail 215. 



Cuba. 



a. ? (V. 143 ; C. 89). Cuba. M. Salld [C.]. 



d-c. 2 (V. 150, 148; Cuba. 



0.90,92). 



17. Liophis parvifrons. 



Dromiciis fugitivus, part., Giintk. Cat. p. 132 (1858). 



liueatus, part., Giinfh. I. c. p. 134. 



parvifrons, Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1862, p. 79, and Proc. 



AvH-r. Phihts. Soc. xviii. 1879, p. 273; Fischer, Jahrb. Mamb. Wiss. 



Anst. v. 1888, p. 40. 



protenus, Jan, Icon. Gen. 25, pi. iii. fig. 2 (1867). 



Leptophis frenatus, Fischer, Oster-Proyr. Akad. Gi/nm. Hamb. 1883, 



p. 8, pi. — . figs. 9-11 *. 



Eye rather large ; snout rather short. Rostral broader than deep, 

 j ust visible from above ; internasals as long as broad or a little 

 broader than long, shorter than the prajfrontals ; frontal twice as long 

 as broad, longer than its distance from the end of the snout, as long 

 as or a little shorter than the parietals ; loreal nearly as long as deep ; 

 oneprte- and two postoculars ; temporals 1-|-1 or 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 19 (exceptionally 17) rows. Ventrals 145- 

 165 ; anal divided ; subcaudals 110-130. Length of tail 2^ to 2| 

 times in the total length. Brown or dark olive above, with two 

 light longitudinal streaks and a more or less distinct darker vertebral 

 line ; the olive of the sides extending to the ends of the ventrals ; 

 upper lip and lower parts whitish, the labials, the gular region, 

 and the anterior ventrals usually dotted with black. Specimen h 

 uniform black. 



Total length 670 millim. ; tail 250. 



Santo Domingo. 



a-h. S (V. 158, 156 ; C. 123, 120). Ilayti. Zoological Society. 



c-f,9- 2 (V. 152, 155, ir>5, 153; Hayti. Ilr. Rolle rC.l 



C. 110, 114, ?, 112), & yg. (V. 



150 ; G. 128). 



h. cJ (V. 145 ; C. 123). S. Domingo. M. SaU^ rC.l. 



t. $ (V. loo ; C. ?). —? [Barbados]. 



* Through the kindness of Dr. F. Miiller, I have examined one of the type 

 specimens, stated to be from Sierra Leoue, preserved in the Basle Museum. ' 



