81. EHADINiEA. 165 



o. Rhadinsea anomala. 



Coronella anomala, Giinth. Cat. p. 87 (1858), ayid Zool. Rec. 186G, 

 p. 126; Boiileny. Ann. S^ Mag. N. H. (o) xviii. 18.^0, p. 431. 



Lygophis rutilus, Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1862, p. 80, ajid 18G3, 

 ■p. 101. 



Coronella pulcliclla, Jan, Arch. Zool. Anat. Phys. ii. 1863, p. 251, 

 and Icon. Gen. 17, pi. iii. fig. 4 (1866). 



Aporophis anomalus. Cope, Proc. Am. Philos. Soc. xvii. 1877, p. 93. 



Eye moderate. Rostral broader than deep, just visible from 

 above ; internasals as long as broad, as long as or a little shorter 

 than the prasfrontals * ; frontal narrow, twice as long as broad, as 

 long as or a little longer than its distance from the end of the 

 snout, as long as the parietals ; lorcal as long as deep or a little 

 longer t; one prte- and two postoculars ; temporals l-|-2; eight 

 (exceptionally seven) upper labials, fourth and fifth entering tlie 

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

 shields, which are as long as or a little longer than the posterior. 

 Scales in 19 rows. Ventrals indistinctly angulate laterally, 147- 

 159 ; anal divided ; subcaudals 50-73. Length of tail 4^ to 5| 

 times in the total length. Brown or olive above, with large black 

 spots dotted with yellow, and two yellow longitudinal lines or series 

 of spots ; the black spots forming symmetrical vertical bars on the 

 sides ; belly yellow. 



Total length 570 millim. ; tail 105. 



From Southern Brazil and Paraguay to Baenos Ayres. 



a. c? (V. 1.55; C. ?). Parana. Haslar Collection. 



(Type.) 



b. <S (V. 158 ; C. 69). Paras-uay. Prof. Grant [P.]. 

 c-d. S (V. 159; C. 69) & Eio Grande do Sul. Dr. H. v. Ihering [C.]. 



$ (V. 1.55; C. 66). 



e-f. 5 (V. 147, 154 ; Dept. of Soriano, Uru- R. Havers, Esq. [P.]. 



C. 66. (j5). guay. 



g-i. cJ (V. 152; C. 58) & Buenos Ayres. G. Wilks, Esq. [P.]. 



2 (V. 155, 155 ; C. 53, 

 63). 



k-l. (S (V. 151 ; C. 59) & South of Pdo de la Lieut. Gairdner [P.]. 



$ (V. 147 ; C. 50). Plata, 



wi. Skull. Rio Grande do Sul. 



6. Rhadinsea sagittifera. 



Chlorosoma sagittifer, Jan, in Burm. Peise La Plata, ii. p. -S-jO 



(1861) [no description]. 

 Liiipeltis sagittifer, Jan, Elenco, p. 82 (1863), and Icon. Gen. 31, 



pi. V. fig. 2 (1869). 

 Liophis pulcher, Steind. Sitzb. Ak. Wien, Iv. 1867, p. 267, pi. ii. 



Eye moderate; rostral a little broader than deep, well visible 



* The type specimen is anomalous in having an azygous shield separating the 

 pair of pra'front;ils. 



t Fused wilb the pra'frontal in the type specimen. 



