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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1902. 



On the other hand, I would call attention to the fact that in many 

 points E. monensis agrees more closely with Cope's E. elirysogaster, 

 from Turks Island, Bahamas, which certainly merits separation a if 

 E. monensis is entitled to specific or subspecific rank. Thus E. chry- 

 sogaster has 43 scale rows. It has 54 dorsal spots (E. monensis 51-57; 

 E. fordii 69-78). The number of the spots is the cardinal point which 

 led Zenneck to regard E. monensis as a species distinct from E. fordii. 

 It will be seen that E. chrysogaster in this respect is identical, so much 

 so that E. monensis and E. chrysogaster, to use Dr. Zenneck's phrase- 

 ology, are only different "'Zeichnungsformen" of the same thing. 

 He suggests differences, however, in the cephalic scutellation, and until 

 that question can be settled it is the better plan to keep the different 

 forms apart under separate names. 



There are no specimens of this form in the U. S. National Museum, 

 and I only know it from a cursory examination of the five specimens 

 in the Hamburg Museum in August, 1901, when the above description 

 was made. 



158 160 



Figs. 158-160.— Head-shields of a coronellide snake. cs l , anterior chin-shields; cs 2 , posterior 

 chin-shields; /, frontal; il, lower labials; in, intemasals; I, loreal; lb, supralabials; m, mental; n 1 , 

 anterior nasal; n", posterior nasal; p, parietal; pf, prefrontals; pro, pi;eocular; pto, postocular; r, 

 rostral; so, supraocular; /, temporals; v, ventrals. 



Genus LEIMADOPHIS'' Fitzinger. 



1842. Dromicus Bibron in Sagra's Hist. Fis. Pol. Nat. Cuba, IV, Rept., p. 133 



(type, Coluber cursor) (not Dromica De jean, 1826). 



1843. Leimadophis Fitzinger, Syst. Rept., p. 26 (type, Coronella almadensis=L. 



regime). 

 1843. Calophis Fitzinger, Syst. Rept., p. 26 (type, Herpetodryas cursor). 

 1891. Liophis Boulenger, Cat. Sn. Brit. Mus., II, p. 126 (type, L. pozcilogyrus) 



(not of Wagler, 1830). 



«It has been united with E. fordii by Boulenger (Cat, Sn. Brit. Mus., 1, 1893, p. 98). 

 i<Asij:ia<;, «5os=meadow; oc/>zs=snake. 



