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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1902. 



Habitat. — Like Leimadophis exiguus, the present species does not 

 reach Porto Rico proper, hut is confined to the islands of St. Thomas 

 and St. John, Vieques, and Culebra. It is absent in St. Croix, where 

 it is replaced by Alsophis sarwticrticis (Cope), and in Porto Rico proper, 

 where the corresponding species is A. portoricensis. 



Prof. S. Garman records specimens of A . antittensis in the Museum 

 of Comparative Anatomy, Cambridge, as coming from Haiti. This 

 is the only report from this island, I believe, and I can not be but very 

 skeptical as to the correctness of the locality, in regard to which I 

 refer to similar remarks under Anolis stratulus and A. pulchellus, 

 pages 654 and 664. 



Mr. Riise, who collected for the museum in Copenhagen about forty 

 years ago, obtained specimens of this species from Vieques. Neither 

 Dr. Richmond, myself, Mr. A. B. Baker, nor any of the other mem- 

 bers of the Fishhawk expedition met with it in that island, where it 

 must now be rather scarce. On Culebra, however, the snakes are yet 

 fairly common, and several specimens were collected there by Mr. 



Baker. 



Alsophis antittensis. 



