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into pale brownish gray at the commissure; slight traces of rufous on 

 rostral and other shields of face; iris silvery gray clouded with dusky. 



No. 29583 a somewhat smaller individual (1,500 mm. total length) 

 brought home by Mr. Bowdish is very similar in coloration, only the 

 underside is more slate color, and the pattern much more distinct, the 

 crossbars showing paler centers with blackish margins; the spots of 

 the lateral series show a tendency to form a lateral blackish line on the 

 anterior third of the bodv T . 



No. 27456 (1,59<> mm. long), collected by Captain Hansard, died at 

 the National Zoological Park on July 6, 1900, showed hardly any traces 

 of bars or spots; general color above, chestnut, darkest on the median 

 region and tail, gradually becoming lighter toward the ventrals; the 

 latter brownish-slate color with pale edges; throat and chin mottled 

 dull rufous and brownish slate; scattered obscure dusky spots on 

 flanks. 



Habitat. — This large snake is confined to Porto Rico, where it is 

 found in wooded and rocky places of the foothills. It is now getting 

 to be rather rare, so much so that neither the Fishhawk parties, Mr. 

 Baker, Dr. Richmond, nor myself saw one during our explorations. 

 Mr. Baker, however, saw the trail of them in the grass. 



E. inomatus has been recorded unqualified!}' from Haiti by Bocourt 

 upon the strength of a specimen in the Paris Museum. He gives no 

 particulars, however, but there can be no doubt that it is the same 

 specimen briefly described by DumeriP' as showing some peculiarities in 

 the cephalic scutellation as well as a very aberrant coloration. Dumeril 

 himself seems strongly inclined to regard it as belonging to a different 

 species, and to me it appears quite possible that the specimen in ques- 

 tion may be a young E. fordii. 



Zenneck b gives Cuba as one of the localities of Epicrates inomatxis 

 and cites Bibron c as authority, but I have been unable to find an} T such 

 reference. As a matter of fact, Bibron's work was published before 

 Reinhardt described E. inomatus. 



a Cat. M6th. Rept. Mus., Paris, 1851, p. 220. 

 &Zeitsch. Wiss. Zool., LXIV, 1898, p. 348. 

 C R. de la Sagra's Histoire, etc. 



