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cured through Professor Silva from the same locality as the type, 

 in December, 1921; the other has the no. 1509, and was caught 

 in January, 1918, near Quixada, State of Ceara, Brazil, by Mr. 

 Mario TrevSes, travelling collector of Butantan. 



Living habits: Bothrops erythromelas lives under clusters of 

 'Macambira' (Bromelia laciniosa Martius), near rocks, in high, 

 sandy and arid places, and feeds on small rodents. 



This species is related to B. itapetiningae (Boulcnger, 1907), 

 from which it is easily distinguished by its different color, lower 

 number of dorsal scales, higher number of subcaudals, shape 

 of the snout and other characteristics. 



As far as B. itapetiningae is concerned, I believe that R. von 

 Ihering * was not entirely correct when he stated that this 

 species lives in the States of Sao Paulo and Bahia. According 

 to the studies I have been doing on the zoogeography of the 

 Brazilian snakes, B. itapetiningae is found only in a very small 

 zone of the State of Sao Paulo, lying in the central and south- 

 western part of its territory around the tropic of Capricorn and 

 the meridian 48° W. Long., or more precisely between the 

 meridians 47° and 49° Long, west of Greenwich and the parallels 

 21° and 24° S. Lat. I am taking this opportunity to correct this 

 mistake, because it has been made many times by the authors 

 who have followed Ihering's opinion, including F. Werner 2 in 

 his recent paper on the Amblycephalidae and Viperidae. 



A specimen existing in the collection of the Museu Paulista 

 and sent from Villa Nova, Bahia, is not of B. itapetiningae, as 

 Ihering considered it. It agrees with B. erythromelas, from 

 which it cannot be distinguished. 



Bothrops iglesiasi sp. nov. 



Body slender, snout obtusely pointed, with sharp canthus, eye moderate. 

 Rostral as deep as broad; nasal divided; internasals large, in contact be- 

 hind the rostral; canthals as large as or smaller than the internasals; upper 



1 R. von Ihering, As cobras do Brasil, Rev. do Museu Paulista, VIII, 1910, p. 361. 



2 F. Werner, Synopsis der Schlangenfamilien der Amblycephaliden und Viperiden. 

 Wien, August, 1921. 



