326 COLUBEIDiE. 



ocular short and broad ; frontal hexagonal ; parietal large, in 

 contact with the fifth labial ; two small postoculars ; three temporals, 

 the first between the fifth and sixth labials and the parietal ; six 

 upper labials, third and fourth entering the eye, fifth largest ; three 

 pairs of chin-shields. Scales in 19 rows. Ventrals 2:55 ; anal 

 entire ; subcaudals 44. Silvery grey above, with a series of dark 

 brown black-edged spots ; an elongate triangular dark patch on the 

 parietals, pointing backwards ; a dark bar running back from the 

 eye to the upper margin of the labials ; fore part of the head macu- 

 lated with black ; lower surface silvery grey, much blotched with 

 black. 



Total length 532 millim. ; tail 50. 



Florida. 



116. GEAGRAS. 



Geagras, Cope, Joiirn. Ac. Philad. (2) viii. 1870, p. 141. 

 Sphenocalamus, Fischer, Oster-Profjr. Akad. Gymn. Hamb. 1883, 

 p. 5. 



Maxillary teeth 12, very small, equal ; mandibular teeth very small, 

 equal. Head not distinct from neck; snout much, depressed, 

 strongly projecting, with angular horizontal edge ; eye very small, 

 with round pupil ; nostril between two large nasals and the inter- 

 nasal ; no loreal, posterior nasal in contact with the praeocular. 

 Body cj'liudrical, short ; scales smooth, without apical pits, in 15 

 rows ; ventrals rounded. Tail short ; subcaudals in two rows. 

 Mexico. 



1. Geagras redimitus. 



Geagras redimitus, Cope, I. c., andProc. Amcr. Philos. Soc. xxii. 1885, 



p. 177. 

 Sphenocalamus lineolatus, Fischer, I. c. pi. — . figs. 3-5. 

 Geophis redimita, Giinth. Biol. C.-Am., Eept. p. 92 (1893). 



Eostral very large, flat beneath, its upper portion convex and as 

 long as its distance from the frontal ; intcrnasals broad, shorter 

 than the prefrontals ; frontal large, a little longer than broad, longer 

 than its distance trom the end of the snout, a little shorter than 

 the parietals ; supraocular narrow; one prae- and one postocular ; 

 temporals l-t-2; six upper labials, fourth bordering the eye, fifth 

 in contact with the parietal ; two pairs of chin-shields, anterior in 

 contact with the symphysial, posterior small. Scales in 15 rows. 

 Ventrals 117-119 ; anal divided ; subcaudals 25-3U. Pale reddish 

 above, each scale on the anterior half of the body with a brown 

 median streak ; head brown above, with two yellow longitudinal 

 streaks meeting on the rostral ; lower parts uniform yellowish. 



Total length 185 millim. ; tail 25. 



Western Mexico. 



«. 5 (V. 117 ; C. 29). Mexico. L. Greening, Esq. [P.]. 



