692 



REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1902. 

 Epicrates inornalus. 



"Icon. Ophid., texte, 2 livr., 1865, p. 87. 



EPICRATES MONENSIS" Zenneck. 



1898. Epicrates monensis Zenneck, Zeitschr. Wiss. Zool., LXIV, p. 64, pi. m, 

 figs. 58-62; type locality, Mona I.; types, Hamburg Mus. No. 2034. 



1901. Epicrates fordii var. monensis Meerwarth, Mitth. Naturh. Mus. Hamburg, 

 XVIII, p. 8 (Mona Island). 



153 



154 



156 



Figs. 153-157.— Epicrates monensis, young. 153, color pattern, top of head; 154, color pattern, top 

 of head of another specimen; 155, side of head, scutellation ; 156, color pattern of body, lateral view; 

 157, color pattern, side of head and neck. Copies from Zenneck, figs. 53-62. Specimens in Hamburg 

 Museum. 



Description. — Young,' Hamburg Naturhist. Museum, No. 2034c 

 (cotype); Mona Island; 1894; Bock, collector. Rostral higher than 

 broad, tip just visible from above; internasals as broad as long; ante- 

 rior pair of prefrontals larger, posterior shorter, broadly in contact and 

 without intervening scales; frontal as broad as long, twice as broad as 

 supraoculars; parietals small, smaller than posterior prefrontals, sepa- 

 rated by a scale; first supralabial in contact with nasal, second with 



« From Mona Island. 



