200 THE HERPETOLOGY OF CUBA. 
in Cope’s type of the synonymous A. fulvwm in the U.S.N.M. We should say 
that_this species seems to be a little more abundant than A. taeniatum but it 
also is rare and entirely unknown to most native Cubans. 
65. ARRHYTON REDIMITUM (Cope). 
Diagnosis: — A small longitudinally striped burrowing snake, having 
very few ventral scales (about 141) and but one loreal and one prefrontal. 
Description: — (After Cope). One preocular, one loreal, one nasal. Ros- 
tral plate small, obtuse. Dorsal scales smooth, poreless, in seventeen rows. 
Tail elongate. Inferior labials, nine. Fide Bocourt ventrals 141, caudals 120. 
Colour: — (After Cope). Brownish gray, lighter beneath. A narrow 
dark line along the fourth row of scales. Another line upon the vertebral 
series. Two light occipital spots. 
We know nothing of this species, which Stejneger (loc. cit., p. 287) concludes 
to be valid. We had believed that it was a synonym of A. vittatum until we read 
Stejneger’s account (qg. v.). Only two specimens have been recorded, one, the 
type (lost) but partially described by Cope, anda second by Bocourt. 
It is either not Cuban at all or else excessively rare, while the possibility 
that the records are based upon anomalous specimens is by no means excluded, 
indeed rendered more probable, for in 1918 three additional examples of A. taent- 
atum were found at Soledad near Cienfuegos (Barbour) and one A. vittatum was 
taken near Cojimar (Sefior Fermin Cervera). 
REPTILIA: TESTUDINATA. 
TESTUDINIDAE. 
66. PsrupEMys PALUSTRIS (Gmelin). 
Plate 15, fig. 14-16. 
Jicotea; Jarico (0%). 
Description: — 
“ Adult female; U.S. N. M. No. 25642; San Juan; [Porto Rico] January 14, 1899. Shell 
moderately convex, the height being more than one-half the greatest width; length of cara- 
pace less than two and a half times the height of the shell and about one and one-third times 
its greatest width; carapace faintly keeled and with longitudinal wrinkles crossed by radiat- 
ing ridges, which are especially strong on the anterior costals; nuchal narrow; first vertebral 
shield urceolate, anterior and posterior sutures of same length; lateral sutures of second, 
