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able for both forms. The name of the northern mainland form appears 

 to be applicable to the island species as well, since they do not seem to 

 be separable by any valid characteristic. No. 79097, a male, has 39 

 scale rows, 260 ventrals, and 107 subcaudals ; no. 79098, a half -grown 

 specimen, has 39 scale rows, 258 ventrals, and 108 subcaudals. 



.... The surprise, however, came when Pasqual came to me in consterna- 

 tion, saying that he had seen a snake, so I hastened to the place and sure 

 enough there was a slender black snake [see Drymobius hoddaertii, U.S.N.M. 

 no. 79099]. Later I asked Pasqual to get me an orchid in a large tree some 

 distance above ground, and he almost fell off when he discovered another snake 

 in the bunch of orchids. I could scarcely believe him, but handing him a stick 

 had him poke it out and sure enough a slender, beautifully colored animal slipped 

 out and sped along the branch. My .22 game-getter stopped him, but his tail 

 was wound so tightly about a small limb that we had considerable trouble 

 unwinding it. This species is evidently a splendid climber. Not 10 minutes 

 later Pasqual, peeping into a broken-off limb hollowed out by decay, came near 

 a second tumble as he bounced back with an "Ave Maria— una utra calebra." 

 He again poked him out and a shot from the .22 also dropped him. I hope we 

 have a pair. 



TROPIDOPHIS MACULATUS MACULATUS (Bibron) 



Leionotus macidatiis Bibron, in R. de la Sagra's Hist. Cuba, Rept., p. 212, 1840. 

 U.S.N.M. no. 75826 from La Sierra, north of Vega Alta, Santa 

 Clara Province, August 14, 1928. 



TROPIDOPHIS MELANURUS (Schlegel) 



Boa melamira Schlegel, Ess. Phys. Serp., vol. 2, p. 399, 1837. 



U.S.N.M. no. 75828 from El Rinconada, Sierra Camagua, Cuba, 

 August 27, 1928 ; no. 75839 from the Cubitas Mountains near Senado. 

 Cuba, September 5, 1928 ; no. 76879 from Central Senado, Camagiiey 

 Province, Cuba, September 6, 1928. 



TROPIDOPHIS PARDALIS PARDALIS (Gundlach) 



Boa pardalis (part) Gundlach, Arch. Naturg., 1840, p. 359. 



A young snake attributed to this species is now U.S.N.M. no. 81536, 

 from Double Headed Shot Cay of the Cay Sal Group taken on June 

 20, 1930. There are 23 scales around the middle of the body, 157 

 ventrals, a single anal, and 32 subcaudals. 



Family COLUBRIDAE 

 TRETANORHINUS VARIABILIS Dum^ril and Bibron 



Tretanorhinus variabilis Dumeril and Bibron, Erpet. Gen., vol. 7, p. 349, 1854. 

 U.S.N.M. no. 75807 from Bancs San Vicente, Pinar del Rio 

 Province, Cuba, June 21, 1928. 



